Burying the Ex (2014)

Sorry, this movie sucks

One of my all time favorites.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Burying the Ex Is a movie starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, and Alexandra Daddario. A guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie. Burying the Ex is not one of Dante's best films and for sure as hell it's quite silly and dumb but it's still a fun zombie comedy that benefits from excellent work from it's 3 main leads but also even has a Dick Miller cameo which was a nice touch in my opinion. The film at times might get a bit way too silly but it's still not as bad as you might have hurt and please give it a shot. (6/10)

There's like a split second where this film might be an interesting look at the dynamics of what makes relationships work or don't (I thought the film was going to present Ashley Greene's Evelyn as sympathetic), but this is not that at all. It's just a lowest common denominator type-A domineering girlfriend trying to make a man-child grow up instead of just letting him be him. Except this time the twist is that she comes back as a zombie and he still doesn't have the fortitude to tell her the truth (he would rather kill her, again).Broad, with a few horror film fan touches, and nothing remotely approaching the level of a Joe Dante film and what that normally entails.

Which are my thoughts about this film in general, it is a neat idea, but it lacks the energy you expect from a Joe Dante movie...The actors all do a great job, Anton Yelchin especially is very believable in this unbelievable setting so that you care about what 's going on.The photography is good, but i expected more, mostly in the scenes which are supposed to be (obvious, cause Joe Dante) homages to old horror movies. I expected something like in "The Burbs", when Tom Hanks goes to the house of his neighbours and the whole weather seems to change...The effects work really well, the Zombie make-up and body-get- crippled-scenes are fairly effective, and the actress does a great job.The soundtrack (normally a big part of Dantes movies) feels very bland and there are two key scenes where the music is totally out of place and takes the emotion, or tension away.BUT it's overall a very cute little movie, which works as a nice, morbid couple-night film that you can enjoy...

Wuss (Anton Yelchin) works up the courage to break up with his girlfriend (Ashley Greene) but, before he can go through with it, she's hit by a bus and killed. Just as he is about to start a new relationship with another hottie (Alexandra Daddario), the dead girlfriend returns as a zombie.I had a hard time liking Anton Yelchin's character. He's this wimpy hipster unmotivated guy that I doubt I could stand for five minutes in real life. Surprisingly, there's no mention of his smoking weed as there usually is with characters like this. You're slacking on your clichés, Joe Dante. He also doesn't contribute much in the humor department. That's left on Ashley Greene's shoulders. Oliver Cooper plays Yelchin's half-brother, which is itself supposed to be a joke of some kind. It's repeated throughout the movie despite never being funny. Some people have half-siblings. I don't get what's funny about that. Outside of that 'joke,' he's pretty much the Jonah Hill character. You know, the fat gross guy who is inexplicably attractive to women and whose material is something that was envelope-pushing decades ago but now seems trite. Consider yourself warned he is naked in this so don't eat while watching. As for Ashley Greene, she owns this thing. She delivers all of the movie's laughs and things just seem less interesting when she's off-screen. Sexy Alexandra Daddario is given little to work with but does fine.I'm glad to see Joe Dante is still around and hasn't completely lost it. I mean, this is nowhere near the stuff he made in his prime, but it's better than anything John Landis has made lately. It's got a lot of the expected Dante touches (perhaps too many), such as old horror movies constantly playing in the background, a moving truck with the name Romero on it, and an amusing guest appearance from Dick Miller. It almost feels like Dante is homaging himself at this point. Aside from these touches, there really is nothing about this that stands out from a thousand other directors with less status. The movie looks as though it could have been made for television, honestly. It's a watchable horror comedy, funny in parts and gross in others. Worth a look but don't expect much.