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Article: opening this weekend
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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"Zombieland"
R for horror violence/gore and language. 82 min. HHH.
You'd be justified in thinking you've visited "Zombieland"
before. There's been no shortage of zombies at the movies in recent
years, just as there's been no shortage of vampires. And within that
genre, a crop of zombie comedies has arisen, from "Shaun of the
Dead" to "Zombie Strippers" to "Dead Snow."
Like "Shaun" before it, though, "Zombieland" mostly finds that
tricky balance of the laugh-out-loud funny and the make-you-jump
scary, of deadpan laughs and intense energy.
It's a total blast even if the story is a bit thin, and it does
run out of steam toward the end, but thankfully our trip to
"Zombieland" is appropriately ...