Warm Bodies

The film focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie (Teresa Palmer), a young woman, and "R" (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie, and how their eventual romance developed throughout. The film is rare for its human characteristics in zombie characters. It is also unusual in such stories because it is told from the point of view of a zombie. Also starring Dave Franco, John Malkovich and Rob Corddry. I read the book of this last year and absolutely adored it, it was funny and quirky, smart and fresh and the characters are well developed and likable. I can say the exact same thing for the film and I might even go as far to say that the film was better. When I heard Warm Bodies was being made into a movie I was excited and itching to see it but I still believed that it was not going to beat the book because they never do. However I was so happy when I came out of the cinema knowing that for once the film industry knows what they're doing with an adaption! I loved Hoult and Palmer as the two leads, they had great chemistry considering this is a zombie-human romance. When hearing the plot for Warm Bodies, I think everyone assumes that its ridiculous and to be honest, it is, but in the best kind of way. The world created is horrificly realistic and you don't have a hard time believing that the zombie apocolypse is a possibility but despite the brain eating, slowly decomposing zombies in this, at its core Warm Bodies is a romance that is truly funny. Men and women will both enjoy this, its oddly romantic, dryly funny and provides just enough scares. 5 out of 5.