Warm Bodies

When I first entered the theater last night to watch Warm Bodies, I was a little apprehensive of watching a romantic comedy about zombies. With me being such a huge fan of traditional zombies’ scenes that include lots of gore and action, I was afraid that this film would lack those qualities.  The show did not have as much blood and guts as most zombie films, the effects were sometimes too computerized, and there were more running scenes than fighting scenes, but I still enjoyed the movie. Warm Bodies offered such an ingenious new take on the classic genre. For starters, instead of concentrating solely on a group of humans struggling to survive in a world overrun by mindless corpses, we hear the narration of a contemplative zombie called R, a living corpse who wants more out of his bumbling afterlife. Another concept that I truly enjoyed was how the zombies still had automatic human habits they performed, such as a zombie security guard scanning a metal detector at anyone who passed him. Unlike so many other zombie movies, Warm Bodies encouraged more hope for humanity. The movie made a real effort to show that human emotions, feelings, and memories are stronger than we give them credit.  To have the oddball relationship of R and his human love interest Julie become the cure for the zombie virus added to the quality of the film. Especially since this impossible relationship cured other zombies who witnessed it. With such innovative and humorous concepts in this movie, I am looking forward to a sequel and to read the novel this film was based on.