WARM BODIES

WARM BODIES

USA, 2013
Director: Jonathan Levine

8,5/10

Maybe I'm getting old and sentimental, or mabye it's the fact that I'm currently pretty lovey-dovey, but omg, I utterly loved "Warm Bodies"! It's one of the coolest, cleverest and most entertaining zom-coms I've ever seen, and the fact that it's almost purely about the power of love breeding life back into the undead, makes it the very first real Rom-Zom-Com ever. Sorry "Shaun" and "Deadheads", but you're not romantic enough :)

Jonathan Levine's ("All the Boys love Mandy Lane") adaptation of Isaac Marion's bestselling novel of the same name, is undoubtedly the first BIG surprise of 2013. Not in my wildest dreams did I expect this to be that good! It's incredibly witty and hilariously funny, heartwarming and strangely touching, tense and thrilling, and stunningly entertaining without ever getting boring.

Nicholas Hoult is fantastic as "human" zombie 'R' who's starving for brains, love and sympathy. I adore the way he walks and looks, and his cool pale make-up makes you completely forget about the atrocious face of that Cullen-boy.

Teresa Palmer delivers a similarly great performance (also, excellent chemistry between her and Hoult), Rob Corddry is simply wonderful as R's best friend 'M', Analeigh Tipton is funny as hell, and John Malkovich is sublime as always.

The movie's technical aspects are all superb: beautiful cinematography (Javier Aguirresarobe, "The Others"), a sparkling score from Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, consisting of enchanting guitars and epic strings, great editing, great special effects - but the true highlight is the outstanding soundtrack: "Patience" - Guns 'N Roses / "Hungry Heart" - Bruce Springsteen / "Missing You" - John Waite / "Rock You like a Hurricane" - Scorpions / "Midnight City" - M83 etc. etc.

The only thing that annoyed me were the skeletal zombies ("Bonies"): I love their 'backstory', but unfortunately, they all look like something out of a videogame, thanks to the rather mediocre CGI.
Apart from that, "Warm Bodies" is a refreshing and really impressing take on the undead-genre, at times so unique, it makes you wanna have more
of that kind ASAP.

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Best product placement ever! :D