Zombieland

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

A cowardly shut-in named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is forced to join up with a seasoned zombie slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. As Tallahassee sets out on a mission to find the last Twinkie on Earth, the duo meets up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), two young girls who have resorted to some rather unorthodox methods to survive amidst the chaos. Reluctant partners in the battle against the undead, all four soon begin to wonder if it might be better to simply take their chances alone. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • Deleted scenes
  • Commentary with actors Woody Harrelson & Jesse Eisenberg director Ruben Fleischer, writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
  • Go behind-the-scenes with "in search of Zombieland"
  • "Zombieland is your land" - zombification of the united states
  • Visual effects progression scenes
  • Theatrical promo trailers

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee
       Jesse Eisenberg - Columbus
       Emma Stone - Witchita
       Abigail Breslin - Little Rock
       Amber Heard - 406
       Bill Murray - Himself
       Derek Graf - Clown Zombie

• Director:

  Ruben Fleischer

• Producer:

  Gavin Polone

• Screenwriter:

  Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

• Cinematographer:

  Michael Bonvillain

• Composer (Music Score):

  David Sardy

• Editor:

  Allan E. Baumgarten, Peter Amundson

• Production Designer:

  Maher Ahmad

• Art Director:

  Austin Gorg

• Executive Producer:

  Ezra Swerdlow, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Kavanaugh

• Set Designer:

  Timothy O'Brien

• Costume Designer:

  Magali Guidasci

• Set Decorator:

  Gene Serdena

• First Assistant Director:

  Kim Winther

• Casting:

  John Papsidera

• Makeup Special Effects:

  Tony Gardner

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Jeffrey Lee Gibson

• Special Effects Supervisor:

  Bob Shelley

• Unit Production Manager:

  Ezra Swerdlow

• Stunts Coordinator:

  G.A. Aguilar

• Script Supervisor:

  Gail Hunter

• Properties Master:

  Dwight Benjamin-Creel

• Second Assistant Director:

  Heather Wusterbarth

• Production Supervisor:

  Regina Robb

• Leadman:

  Grant Samson

• Department Head Hair:

  Melissa A. Yonkey

• Department Head Makeup:

  Sarah Mays

• Special Effects Foreman:

  Lisa Reynolds

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Paul Linden

• Key Make-up:

  Susan Ransom

• Key Hairstylist:

  Carol Raskin

REVIEW:

• Zombieland is downright delightful. Somewhat surprisingly, a movie about a post-apocalyptic cross-country road trip through an undead nation converted almost entirely into legions of the cannibalistic undead is really about the simple pleasures in life: stuff getting destroyed in balletic slow motion, cowboy heroes wielding John Woo-style double hand cannons, and of course, Twinkies. Pair these timeless themes with solid zombie-centric humor, and you've got comedy-horror gold.
  
  The cowboy hero in question (Woody Harrelson) goes by the name Tallahassee, since that's where he's headed when he runs into the main character (Jesse Eisenberg) -- whom we call Columbus -- on one of America's now countless abandoned highways. It's been a couple of months since your basic bite-borne rage virus swept the country, but there are still a few stragglers left uninfected, like Columbus, who gets by on the paranoid nature that once made him a shut-in, and Tallahassee, who gets by on pure badassery. Soon, they meet up with a couple of sisters, Wichita and Little Rock (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin), and the quartet ends up driving west together.
  
  Along the way, they engage in some intensely hilarious comedy dialogue -- stuff so clever and well orchestrated that it often transcends the audience's line between laughter and full-on glee. In fact, the humor could hold up even without the gloriously gratifying zombie action sequences, but the movie's handling of the ass-kicking and gore is top-notch anyway. Director Ruben Fleischer deserves major credit for clearly knowing intuitively how to work a double barrel shotgun, a Garden Weasel, and a zombified clown into a scene for maximum satisfaction. With such a solid grasp of both the wonderfully funny and the awesomely violent, it looks like Fleischer is wielding his own pair of action hero-style pistols, and we get the pleasure of watching him know just how to use them. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi