As you might know, horror is my preferred genre. I find horror just more appealing than other movie genres and I watch horror movies practically daily. Warm Bodies kind of fits into the horror genre, well somewhat. It is a mix of everything and will appeal to the tweens and teen audiences in addition to horror fans. Well anyway, I liked Warm Bodies a lot.
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Isaac Marion, and is set in the world after the apocalypse. There are your typical zombies walking around but also boonies who are degraded zombies and are the most dangerous of them all. We follow a dead zombie character called R (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with a human named Julie (Teresa Palmer) and they both find a strange liking to each other and eventually find love between them.
As with any "love story", the performance of the lead characters is crucial. Here, Teresa Palmer and Nicholas Halt who have both done their share of good work, provide just what we want. They have a good, though different, chemistry with each other, and both are very hard not to like. The love story between them is easily watchable.
As I alluded to before, this movie is far from a love story though. Warm Bodies has a zombie plot but for some reason it is lacking in details regarding the recent apocalypse. The plot really picks up in it's last act with a pretty good zombie idea and this is where the movie really hits it's mark. With the combined horror/zombie/love story theme, it contains a mix of little things to make it work. There is also a homage to the 80's through the music, a strong supporting cast that has Rob Corddry and David Franco and a lot of neat sets that are fun to watch as the story unfolds.
What likely might be forgotten in this movie is the well made-up zombies. They are all original, and done with a gritty style and the boonies couldn't be more cool. The zombies have a terminator-like gray color to them that makes some scenes very tense and makes the film as scary as it could possibly be considering the theme.
There is also a message to the film which might get lost with all the zombie talk and that is that in this world, everyone is kind of the same in a lot of ways and that love can happen in ways we can't imagine. The movie also suggests that the apocalypse might not be what we think it will be.
As a 16 year old, I was one of the few males in the theater and I noticed that there were mostly teenage girls around me. Warm Bodies might have a kind of a Twilight feel to it but actually it is more like a sappy Shakespeare story with a cult feel. Warm Bodies is a film that probably should have had a bigger audience but it was released Super Bowl week so that was a limiting factor. Regardless, I recommend it to all.
4/5
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