The trailers for “Zombieland” excited me, but I was wary because of the fact that more often than not, zombie movies are funny inadvertently. A purposely funny zombie movie is almost unheard of and I generally despise them because of their penchant for mocking the genre rather than commenting or expounding on it.
What we get in “Zombieland” isn’t a mockery, luckily, but the film isn’t exactly ground-breaking. I got the impression that the film would be a lot like “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” but with zombies, and I was pretty much dead on in that regard.