Warm Bodies Reviews
Top CriticIt's all very silly and sweet in that indie-nostalgic way that Levine ('The Wackness' and '50/50') has made his own.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is a bloody fresh twist on the zombie genre.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Warm Bodies is a funnier and pleasantly cheaper-grade movie than Twilight that aims to draw in both Bella & Edward lovers and haters.
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| Original Score: B
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
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.
There are so many clever lines and bits of physical comedy worth revisiting that the movie seems like a likely cult classic, but it's more inclusive than that.
In a genre that's grown so exhausted - what are we, up to "Night of the Resident Evil Dead Part 23" by now? - "Warm Bodies" not only brings in some fresh blood, but has brains to spare.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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
A good-natured romantic zombie comedy that plays like a tamer version of The Twilight Saga.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Fans of "The Walking Dead" can keep moving; there's nothing to see here.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
In doing a little genre bending of romantic schmaltz and horror cheese - some fundamental zombie mythology is turned on its head - the film breathes amusing new life into both.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
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
An improbable romance sweetened with appealing performances and buoyed by one of the better cute meets in recent romantic comedy ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
[Levine] finds strategies in Warm Bodies to make what has long been considered a deathless tale undead in a new way.
The movie has a wry sense of humor that manages to coexist with its all-you-need-is-love theme.
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| Original Score: B+
These bodies, whether human or zombie, feel room-temperature at best.
The film's intentions are way too good for its own good, producing bloodless romance and more shamefully bloodless carnage.
"Warm Bodies" is surely the zombie love story of the season.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's like the Capulets and the Montagues all over again - only the Montagues don't have a pulse.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Hoult's genuinely awkward charm and Palmer's tomboyish wholesomeness disarm an audience overfamiliar with this story.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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
I don't know if the first zombie date flick is a step forward or backward for civilization as a whole, but I can say that "Warm Bodies" pulls off a pretty impressive trick: It has its "Twilight" and goofs on it too.
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| Original Score: 3/4
No, it's not the best zombie film, but it may well be the cutest.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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 likable if not remarkable Warm Bodies is the world's first romantic zombie comedy, told from the point of view of a dead guy.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Hoult and Palmer carry "Warm Bodies" with a delightful conviction their characters' forbidden, "Romeo and Juliet"-like bond can be played like other movie romances, albeit with an obvious twist.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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
I kinda love this movie. "Warm Bodies" is a well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
"Warm Bodies" offers a welcome twist on the living-dead canon, even if the decidedly femme-skewed results ignore pretty much every rule of the genre.
This character-driven genre meld could have used more edge and energy, and less obvious message-mongering, but it scores in terms of atmosphere, humor and charm.
