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Tuesday, 26 August 2014

LIFE AFTER BETH [2014]

I ♥ Huckabees writer Jeff Baena's directorial debut, Life After Beth is a disjointed zom-rom-com that sputters out a few moments of promise.
Aubrey Plaza is grotesquely playful as Beth, a girl who has no memory of returning from the dead and wonders why her family won't let her lead a normal life.  Dane DeHaan is horribly miscast as her boyfriend that stumbles around while trying to pick up where they left before her "incident" without letting her in on the whole six feet under thing.
While it's nice to see a zombie movie shuffle the whole "epidemic" thing far into the background and instead focus on the character relationships, there's simply nothing imaginative or really funny here, apart from a few good chuckles.   

2 smooth jazz tunes for the recently deceased out of 5

2 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

Smooth Jazz Tunes for the Recently Deceased needs to be an actual album.

cuckoo said...

XD I've been toying around with how to exactly word that for the past 2 weeks.

Life's been pretty good when that is all that's been haunting my thoughts.