Warm Bodies Reviews
Top CriticThe film's intentions are way too good for its own good, producing bloodless romance and more shamefully bloodless carnage.
Time Out Chicago
Good luck ascribing a clear satirical agenda to Jonathan Levine's tonally uneven zomcom, which suffers an identity crisis nearly as severe as its protagonist's.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Skinny
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
It wants to be funny, charming, scary, and dramatic. It ends up being a little of each but not successful as any one.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The whole of "Warm Bodies," in both its comic and dramatic strains, lacks a certain ... what? Ooomph? Intensity? Invention?
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Warmed Over is more like it. A nifty premise and likable lead (Nicholas Hoult)cannot make up for the film's overall blandness.
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| Original Score: C
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Though on the surface falling in line with any "Twilight" film, "Warm Bodies" is better produced, acted and written, which isn't saying a lot.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Total Film
A Frankenstein's monster of comedy, romance and horror that's less than its parts, Warm Bodies entertains but underwhelms.
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| Original Score: 3/5
NYC Movie Guru
Witless, lackluster and uneven despite a charismatic performance by Nicholas Hoult.
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| Original Score: 4.987
Urban Cinefile
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
Lyles' Movie Files
For those who gleefully go along with the premise, it's surprisingly touching and hilarious. Those reared on "Resident Evil" games like me, probably can't buy into a zombie romantic comedy.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Antagony & Ecstasy
A romantic comedy with zombies that has only sputtering comedy that is mostly undersold by its cast, and zombies that never entirely make sense or feel like a credible threat.
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| Original Score: 5/10
It's not that I disapprove of zombie-human dating. I just don't like having my brain eaten by dead writing.
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| Original Score: 2/4
ColeSmithey.com
Featuring an inept use of on-the-nose music over an insipid narrative that poses as satire, "Warm Bodies" should be taught in film schools for its cornucopia of mistakes that filmmakers should avoid at all costs.
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| Original Score: D-
The List
Hoult and Palmer provide engaging performances and keep things watchable and Levine's soundtrack is admittedly cool. But overall Warm Bodies struggles to convince.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Reeling Reviews
It's the Hello Kitty of zombie flicks.
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| Original Score: C
Warm Bodies pulls a nifty trick in the red-hot zombie genre: It lacks a brain, though it eats plenty of them.
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| Original Score: 2/4
We're left with a setup that guarantees only 15 minutes of wholehearted enjoyment, followed by 80 minutes of intermittent mild amusement.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Combining Shakespeare and zombies creates the expectation that the text will be treated with some irreverence, but to a baffling degree Warm Bodies is played mostly straight.
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| Original Score: C
