From its inventive opening credits to a surprise cameo and accompanying laugh-riot Ghostbusters homage, the zom-com Zombieland delivers gore and gags in equally satisfying spurts, so to speak. (There's lots of projectile body fluid.) It also boasts one of the funniest, loopiest Woody Harrelson turns in years.
A Mad magazine-like counterpoint to the forthcoming post-apocalyptic grimfest The Road, Zombieland is set in a wasteland where blood-spewing flesh-eaters roam what's left of the U.S. of A. A crazy virus has infected the population, and only a lucky few, or unlucky few, have managed to stay untainted.
One gamer-nerd college student, nicknamed Columbus because he's heading home to the Ohio town where, hopefully, his parents still live, is among the survivors. As played by Jesse Eisenberg, the droll, nervous ninny of Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, Columbus is the first-person protagonist of first-time director Ruben Fleischer's raucous road movie.