Review: Jonathan Levine’s ‘Warm Bodies’ is Sweet, Funny & Excellent

The flurry of zombie movies in the past decade have made it a cliched genre. There doesn’t seem to be anything more to say about humanity surviving in the face of dead walking the earth with one thought, to eat us. Also to shuffle about aimlessly. Jonathan Levine, the filmmaker behind such gems as The Wackness and 50/50 seems to have tired of the typical zombie movie, too. He’s written and directed Warm Bodies, a horror comedy from the perspective of the zombie and all the hilarity that ensues. Warm Bodies is funny, but it’s also sweet, a bit dark at times, highly original and the first must-see film of 2013. R, the zombie in question, is your typical walker, moving around without direction or purpose, mostly spending his days walking around the airport. He carries on grunt-loaded conversations with another zombie, M, and his internal monologue tells us that, inside, …