After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
It’s likeable enough, and with more teeth than its vampire counterparts in Twilight.
A highly original, heart-warming film that’ll have you laughing and gripping the edge of your chair, perhaps not in equal proportions, but will leave you with a feeling of immense satisfaction.
Hoult and Palmer provide engaging performances and keep things watchable and Levine's soundtrack is admittedly cool. But overall Warm Bodies struggles to convince.
Somewhere between the pop-culture deconstruction of Zombieland and the skewed romance of (500) Days Of Summer, this manages to make the apocalypse seem charming. Warm is the right word.
It would be a lot more gripping if it would dare to scare. And it’s a pity that, in order to give us a feelgood ending, the film takes big liberties with well-established rules of zombiedom.
Director Jonathan Levine, whose script is based on a novel by Isaac Marion, plays the absurd concept poker-straight and allows humour and tenderness to bubble up through the on-screen relationships.
An inventive and witty twist on the concept of star-crossed lovers the picture is a stylish blend of love story, horror and comedy, engagingly performed by the leads.
Thrown together and laughably bloodless, its only reason for existing seems to be to cash in on a tween obsession with the romantic entanglements of the semi-living. A disappointment from the man at the helm of 2006’s fierce and witty All The Boys Love Mandy Lane.
This offbeat romcom about a girl who falls in love with a freshly dead, unusually amenable zombie is smart, entertaining stuff.
Warm Bodies is an ingenious hybrid that, at its best, manages to be funny, lyrical and gruesome.
True, the tepid tween-friendly zombie action may let the side down, but for the most part this is a fun take on an overdone genre.
A charmer, but genre purists will likely hate its guts.
Warm Bodies is a very funny and tender zom-rom-com which nonetheless treats its grisly premise with due awe and seriousness.
It's all rather endearing.
It might sound ridiculous or Twilight-like on paper, but Warm Bodies is warm, sweet and charming.
Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us
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