Warm Bodies

So Lisa had read the book.  "It's really good," she told me.  "Quirky".

So I went, despite the fact that the posters looked incredibly soppy.  And the previews gave my stomach such a sinking feeling.  You know the sort of trailers - 

VOICEOVER DUDE:  Trapped in a world where love is forbidden, Austen and Jane found each other...
CHICK WITH BLONDE HAIR AND DOE EYES:  We are so totally trapped in a world where love is, like, forbidden.  
DUDE WITH CHEEKBONES AND BIEBER HAIR:  Don't give up hope!  Don't give up dreaming!  Don't give up... LOVE.
CHICK WITH BLONDE HAIR AND DOE EYES:  Ohhh.. Dude With Cheekbones...  
DAME JUDI DENCH CASHING LARGE CHEQUE:  Not so fast!  Guards!  Attractive young people falling in love to the sounds of Katy Perry on the OST!  Seize them!
CHICK WITH BLONDE HAIR THEN LAYS SOME "MATRIX" MOVES ON THE GUARDS WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE SEXY WEREWOLVES.
WEREWOLF:  Wait!  What is this strange stirring...?  Could it be the human emotion you call "love"....?
VOICEOVER DUDE:  "CHICK FRANCHISE SAGA - PART ONE"  - THIS MARCH.

There was a lot of that in the trailers.  Lingering looks, stolen glances and really good-looking people looking anguished.  Give them a big nose or a fat bottom, that's what I say.  Then they'd REALLY have something to be anguished about.  Not that I'm bitter.

So I was in a bad mood before the movie started and it got worse.  The plot, such as it is, is about "R" who is a zombie with a heart and longs to be human.  This is what drives him to eat brains, so he can experience human memories and feel less corpse-y.  Consequently, when he eats the brains of Perry, who is in love with Juliet, he falls for her too and blah blah blah etc.  It helps Juliet that while R is a zombie, he kind of looks like he's in an New Romantic band like "Seven & The Ragged Tiger" era Nick Rhodes or that dude from Bauhaus on the Maxell advert.

Things are enlivened by the occasional zombie joke like "There are lots of ways to get to know someone, but I guess eating her boyfriend's brain was a little unorthodox" but on the whole this is a slow film about dull people.  

However, the music was good.  They played "Missing You" by John Waite and "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen and "Shelter From The Storm" by Bob Dylan and this made me wonder if Young People Today actually HAVE their own music.