ZOMBIELAND (2009, Blu-ray released February 2, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
If you don’t like a zombie movie, we can’t be friends. Slap an “…of the Dead” suffix on just about any film title and I’m there! Whether it’s high-grade Hollywood fare or low-rent, B-movie imports made on a shoestring and shipped over from Italy, I’ll watch just about anything with a staggering, lurching undead brain-eater in it. Joining the ranks of the best zombie action captured on celluloid is Sony‘s recent Zombieland, a truly excellent adventure/teen-romance/zombie film captured on a truly excellent, feature packed Blu-ray!
Zombieland treats its characters with respect while lampooning the zombie-genre. This, in and of itself is a marvelous feat. The film follows a couple of survivors, a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) who has managed to stay alive thanks to a series of rules he’s crafted for himself and a gun-toting, RV driving bad-ass (Woody Harrelson) who’s only looking out for himself…and looking out for the last remaining Twinkies in the USA, before they pass their sell-by date. The two unlikely companions team up for a cross-country journey, eventually picking up a couple of young con-artist sisters who trust no-one. Zombie action punctuates the road-trip as the crew heads west toward an amusement park but the heart and soul of this thing is the relationships. Sure it’s funny, it’s filled with action and amazing gross-out moments but it is, at its core, a teen-romance film. And it’s wonderful! I can’t wait to watch it again.
The Blu-ray disc is, as almost everything Sony releases these days, pure gold, from a technical standpoint! Gorgeous reference quality video and a great DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless audio track. You simply can’t go wrong here. Zombieland looks like a million bucks with tons of detail, vibrant colour, accurate fleshtones and deep, deep blacks!
The Zombieland Blu-ray is replete with special features, most impressive of which is the well assembled Picture-in-Picture track, running alongside the film with lots of behind-the-scenes shots, interviews and factoids that end up making most of the other bonus content redundant. But just in case you’re not up for watching the PIP track, Sony has provided a commentary track with director Ruben Fleischer, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and stars Eisenberg and Harrelson. The disc is rounded out by a handful of “making-of” featurettes, deleted scenes, trailers, previews, BD-Live access, Movie IQ (that IMDB style cast/crew look-up tool) and a digital copy of the film. There’s also an unadvertised Playstation 3 theme downloadable from the disc, for those of you playing your Blu-ray discs through the best Blu-ray player in the world! (Yeah, I know. I’m a biased PS3 owner. So what?)
Previously on The Blu-ray Blog: Zombieland Blu-ray Announced and Detailed
I think I’m a zombie movie fan like you are. I can’t wait to buy this movie. The reason I don’t have it yet is because I think my wife won’t like it. But hey, she enjoyed The Hangover, so she might like it.
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Back to the topic at hand, I thought this movie was very original and fun to watch as well.
btw, there is steelbook edition coming out too.
http://www.bluraysteelbooks.com has the info.