One thing that Zombieland delivers to great success is the balance between horror and comedy. Although a pure zombie movie it has that feeling, that flavor, that makes it more like a huge farce of zombie movies rather than a serious zombie film. And that element, the comedic, it's the thing that fills the whole movie with that different power. From the two main characters, their differences and idiosyncratic characters till Bill Murray appearing out of nowhere, Zombieland is a humorous jounrey inside the zombie mythology that asks from the viewer to leave his pomposity and seriousness behind with that movie. It's like the general joke that hides behind zombies finally found its number one spokesman and from the there there is no turning back again to false seriousness.
Zombieland is a movie that relies heavily on the character, on the human element. The two main characters are the thing that drive the whole vehicle, are the undeniable center of the story. Without them this story would be boring as hell. The great element of Zombieland is that it pictures two people that have those qualities that makes them adorable to the audience, making the spectator to have a personal relatioship with them. This is not another zombie movie, with a boring, cliche main character who in the end will save the world, these two people have that certain something, they carry a thing inside them that makes them unique to their own class. That's why Zombieland can also be called one of the ultimate buddy movies. Zombieland is an example where the leading couple drives the whole myth to a different, more updated environment. Without those two Zombieland would have no meaning and no reason to exist. And it's quite refreshing to watch a movie that the human element is so powerful, is so damn and irriversibly human.
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