A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.
There are pleasures to be found, including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s ominous electric-guitar score, but Life After Beth is one or two re-writes away from where it needs to be.
Runs out of ideas, and brains, long before the end.
A romantic-comedy to die for… It’s dead funny… etc., etc. DeHaan and Plaza ace it in a sure-footed zombie movie more interested in heart than braaaaains.
We must surely now be getting close to some sort of zombie saturation point, with even the zomromcom becoming a distinct subsubgenre. On Beth’s evidence, however, there’s life in the undead yet.
Life after Life After Beth? Not great.
Zach and Beth’s creepy reunion is entertaining enough, but once we’re back in standard zombie-outbreak territory of knockabout farce, with lots of extras stumbling around, things just get a bit lazy and cliched.
Smart ideas and frantic, screwball comedy are deftly sustained as the stakes are raised and everyone starts to realise that life with Beth will never be the same again.
It should be fun but is slow, dull and poorly plotted.
Aubrey Plaza’s back-from-the-dead girlfriend is terrifyingly good in this latest addition to the genre.
Interview: Jeff Baena discusses new film Life After Beth
General release. Check local listings for show times.