Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies
[DVD Warm]

In post-apocalyptic earth where zombies roam, a small hold-out of living have to fight them. *Yawn, we've heard this story a thousand times. But Warm Bodies isn't just your typical zombie war movie... "R" the zombie is different – he can "feel." In an ambush situation, he saves the living "Julie," by having her pretending she is one of the dead. They bond together in an abandoned airplane. Through consuming her ex-boyfriend in the ambush, he retains some of the boyfriend's memories and his heart begins to "warm" – Can Julie reunite with the living and prove to her father that the zombies are changing for the better? Suspenseful at times, but I wouldn't consider it horror; the previews also made it appear to be a light-hearted cutesy comedy but it is certainly not. The "bonies" – zombies who have become so decrepit they cannot be warmed, are quite scary for younger kids. Overall, I enjoyed it – a pretty clever twist to your traditional zombie movie. -- recommended by Jeremiah J. - Bennett Martin Public Library [If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try the novel Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion.]

[Also available in traditional print and book-on-cd formats.]

[ Internet Movie Database entry for this film ] | [ official Warm bodies web site ] 

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