Summary
A social outcast, Kathryn Newton, falls in love with a zombie, played by Cole Sprouse.
I was looking forward to this and it was pretty middling.
The main pro I can say for this film is that Kathryn Newton is great, she is very easy to root for and you really believe her character throughout. She might over act a little when the character fully embraces being a bad girl but that aside for the most part she gives a great performance easily the best in the film, though that isn’t hard considering her co-lead doesn’t talk.
I think on the negative side of things that this film is very confused about what it wants to be, and how it wants to go about telling the story it wants to tell. As at times it tries to be a comedy, a drama and sometimes it tries to go for horror but these disparate elements don’t jell well together at all and make the film feel disjointed and tonally at odds with itself.
Moreover, this film doesn’t really have anything new or fresh to say at all, I think Diablo Cody is a good writer yet this feels years out of date. The love story will be familiar to anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of the genre and it is far too familiar to films like Life After Beth just with the roles swapped. Also if you want to talk about ripping people off the whole aesthetic of the film could easily have come out of a Tim Burton film from a decade or so ago.
Overall, whilst Newton is charming this film doesn’t do anywhere near enough to make itself a fun watch.
1.5/5
Pros.
Newton
It has a few funny moments
Cons.
It has been done better before
It feels too familiar
The tonal mismatch
It feels flat
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