Warm Bodies (2013)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 130 | Rotten: 33
Warm Bodies offers a sweet, well-acted spin on a genre that all too often lives down to its brain-dead protagonists.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 11
Warm Bodies offers a sweet, well-acted spin on a genre that all too often lives down to its brain-dead protagonists.
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A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human - setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform
Cast
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Teresa Palmer
Julie -
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John Malkovich
General Grigio, Grigio -
Dave Franco
Perry, Perry Kelvin -
Analeigh Tipton
Nora -
Cory C. Hardrict
Kevin -
Daniel Rindress Kay
Soldier #1 -
Vincent Leclerc
Perry's Dad -
Clifford LeDuc-Vaillancou...
Boy at Airport -
Billie Calmeau
Girl at Airport -
Adam Driscoll
Young Man at ATM -
Chris Cavener
Soldier #2 -
Jonathan Dubsky
Berg -
Alec Bourgeois
Perry (11 years old) -
Robert Reynolds
Janitor -
Felix Bergeron
Bully -
Josee Laviolette
Female Corpse on Tarmac -
Zavier Vaillancourt
Perry (6 years old) -
John Topor
TSA Zombie -
Aaron Janke
Soldier #3 -
Ayisha Issa
Athletic Woman -
Chimwemwe Dave Miller
Airport Corpse -
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Serge Cambronne
Soldier #4 -
Debbie Wong
Laughing Girl -
Quinn O'Neil
Emily -
Bineyam Girma
Sunset Corpse -
Brent Skagford
Baseball Corpse -
Arthur Holden
Zombie Patient -
Raphael Grosz-Harvey
Plague Corpse -
Christian Paul
Stadium Soldier
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All Critics (163) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (33)
It's all very silly and sweet in that indie-nostalgic way that Levine ('The Wackness' and '50/50') has made his own.
This is a bloody fresh twist on the zombie genre.
Warm Bodies is a funnier and pleasantly cheaper-grade movie than Twilight that aims to draw in both Bella & Edward lovers and haters.
Warm Bodies even suggests that true love can help the right zombie grow a new heart. That's a con job that makes Bodies lukewarm at best.
Though R's mind is nimble in (very witty) voiceover, out loud he can only express himself in a series of groans and grumbles--as touching a metaphor for love-struck adolescence as we may see at the movies this year.
"Warm Bodies" sounds a lot better in theory than it turns out to be in practice.
Don't think too hard, just enjoy a zombie movie with a twist to go with its 'Walking Dead' charm.
Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer's cool performance and Hoult's committed turn as 'R', easily the sweetest zombie in all cinema.
A fun mashing of genres that joins the spate of recent films that recasts traditional movie ghouls as misunderstood outsiders. Seems that even the Undead need love.
To call this an unlikely love story is an understatement, but it is precisely this level of weirdness that makes the romance between R and Julia so surprisingly touching.
With more romantic mushiness than the brain-chomping kind.
My zombie boyfriend.
If you love the un-dead humour of Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead, but want an Edward Scissorhands-meets-Romeo and Juliet style romance on the side - then this is the film for you.
Sometimes feels like the script doesn't quite know where it's going but has plenty of fun getting there.
...the film's horror element is hamstrung by its bloodless rating, so the filmmakers often focus on the immaculate cheekbones of their leads...
While Warm Bodies is more slanted towards comedy and romance rather than horror, it remains true to the zombie genre while pushing it in an unexpected direction.
It's your classic tale of 'boy meets girl, boy tries not to eat girl'.
An occasionally funny romantic zombie comedy (or rom-zom-com) that offers a fresh twist on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Most disturbingly, defence against the dead people is guns; the fact that this is common silliness in zombie movies doesn't make it any better ... It reconfirms the gun-obsession that grips America; they even shoot dead people
Trying valiantly to replicate the charm of the enigmatic Twilight romance in a zombie reality, this adaptation stiffens like a corpse thanks to its silly script, and sadly neither Teresa Palmer or Nicholas Hoult are any match for Bela and Edward
Not a particularly substantial film, but a charming, lovable one.
Takes the notion of zombie meets girl an turns it into something that's so crazy that it works
A funky, fresh tale of adolescent self-doubt and blossoming love funneled through the prism of post-apocalyptic zombiedom, Warm Bodies conjures a lovely, commingled tone of wistfulness and witticism.
I somehow think this "sensitive parable" took a little too much from Scott Pilgrim.
The movie doesn't stand out much in memory - nothing in it really pops - but it's enjoyable while it lasts.
...smart, funny, knowing remix of zombie tropes, post-Twilight self-awareness, and youthful yearning for a vague past where, clearly, everything was better. It's a disarming jolt of February awesomeness and the only Valentine's Day movie you need to see.
Audience Reviews for Warm Bodies
Super Reviewer
Likeable characters, original and amusing but still even with that originality is an average movie.
Super Reviewer
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- Julie: It's been so long since I had a beer
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- R: This date isn't going well. I want to die all over again.
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- R: God we move slow. This could take a while.
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- R: Jesus these guys look awful.
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- R: Oh man, they call these guys bonies. They don't bother us much but they'll eat anything with a heartbeat. I mean, I will too but at least I'm conflicted about it.
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- R: What am I doing with my life? I'm so pale. I should get out more. I should eat better. My posture's horrible. I should stand up straighter. People would respect me more if I stood up straighter. What's wrong with me? I just want to connect. Why can't I connect with people? Oh, right, it's cause I'm dead
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| Warm Bodies vs Twilight | 2 days ago | 13 |
| Twilight, but... worse. | 24 days ago | 125 |
| once I figured out that it wasn't a zombie movie, I slept comfortably. My wife on the other hand loved it. | 32 days ago | 1 |
| What's next, Prequel or Sequel? | 38 days ago | 9 |
| If You're Interested in Warm Bodies I recommend these films. | 2 months ago | 4 |
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