Zombieland's Rotten Tomatoes Results

Rotten Tomatoes, a website dedicated to giving ratings on movies, has many interesting ways of analyzing whether the movie is worth watching. They use a system of grading movies by using the phrases "fresh" (means the movie was very good) or rotten (meaning the movie was terrible). They have a collection of movie analysts and participants who give their opinions about specific movies.

Zombieland was a great success of a movie according to Rotten Tomatoes. It recieved a 90% (192 Fresh and 22 Rotten) on the tomatometer, which is that total percentage of Tomatometer Critics that enjoyed the movie or approved it as "fresh". They described the movie as the following: "Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead." The percentage of audience members that enjoyed it was 87%, which is considerably high for a movie compared to others on the website.

Some of those who approved of the movie said things such as the following:

"Now this isn't the most violent film I've ever seen, but it is certainly one of the only films in which the infliction of violence (gut-churning violence) brings people together. And to that I say ... finally!"

-Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

 "Scattershot but sharp, this postapocalyptic road comedy gives Shaun of the Dead a run for its money."

-Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader

"This is proof that horror movies can really be funny. It wasn't just the violent humor, but the little sidetrips for twinkies and Bill Murray's zombie makeup that sent this film into zombie heaven."

-Paul Chambers, CNN

Those who disapproved of Zombie said the following:

"Yes, it's got zombies. Yes, it's got jokes. But it's soulless - dead behind the eyes."

-Robbie Collin, News of the World

"Has a few flashes of genre-bending inspiration ... but the rest is a little too low-key and obvious to really set this zombie comedy apart."

-Mark Dujsik, Mark Reviews Movies

"Watching a 12-year-old Abigail Breslin killing zombies with semi-automatic weapons doesn't do much for me, but I'm sure there are many audiences that will remark, "cool." Gratuitous violence never seemed so cheap."

-Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

Because of such a high approval rating, I would say that those who did not like Zombieland are not fans of the "zombie killing good time" aspect. Maybe they are saying that only the audience is supposed to have fun watching the zombies get killed, rather than the people in the actual movie having a good time killing the zombies. I totally agreed with most of the positive reviews of this film. I believe the idea of the movie and for having a first time director, they did a great job making the movie appeal to horror movie fans as well as those who like comedy all in one movie experience. Overall, Zombieland was a definite success in my book and many others.

To the Rotten Tomatoes review page:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zombieland/