Do we really need more zombie movies? Just as one is opening — the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow — another gets a trailer: the zom-com Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin. Also, according to the IMDb page, Bill Murray has a cameo as a zombie. After the brilliant Shaun of the Dead, there’s not much need for more zombie movies, especially humorous zombie movies, but I can’t help but be excited about this thing. Hopefully that tongue-in-cheek narration is heard throughout the movie and not just in the trailer, in which it’s employed hilariously.

Anyway, as entertaining as Zombieland looks, it’s certainly contributing to the potential over-saturation of the genre. Somehow, though, zombie movies aren’t as threatened, no matter how many examples are made, as some other types of movies. Vampire plots, for instance, are too common these days. And apocalyptic scenarios in general (which does include zombie stories) are excessively prevalent (today’s other most popular trailer is for Roland Emmerich’s destructoporn flick 2012, which also features Harrelson). Yet we always think most films would be better if they had zombies. The real question may be, then, do we really need more non-zombie movies?

Lets see what the film blogs have to say about this trailer after the jump:

• Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend thinks the trailer looks awesome, but he had to get this complaint out of the way first:
  

  If there’s a genre that’s more completely effed out than zombies, I can’t think of it. Zombies are the last refuge of anyone who can’t bother to come up with something else. I love a good post-apocalyptic movie, but does it always have to be zombies? Can’t anything else kill us all? I mean Hitchcock used fucking tweety birds to end the world. Maybe if we all stopped with the zombies someone would come up with something better.

• Harry Knowles at Aint It Cool News continues to harp on the overabundance, which is even more than you think:
  

  I know - I know… enough with the zombies and the vampires… But I’m not sure which supernatural thing you’re hankering for… Werewolves? Aliens? Fishpeople? Ghosts?…I like the classic Zombies as much as everyone… but I am looking forward to someone doing the GHOUL thing. But isn’t that just another name for Zombie? I mean, technically aren’t vampires Zombies? And Frankenstein? And the Mummy?

• Nick Nunziata at CHUD.com makes a joke about the zombie glut:
  

  Zombieland looks to be a winner of a horror comedy, which is surprising since zombies are as tired as Lohan’s liver and most films shot in Georgia never amount to anything…The concept of a zombie apocalypse is not new, but there’s a playful vibe and a very deft cast (Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson are an inspired pair) that is handled very well by director Ruben Fleischer

• Rob Bricken at Topless Robot is definitely not tired of zombie movies:
  

  There have been a lot of zombie movies recently, not all of them good. Some folks are saying that zombies are tired and played out. I just don’t understand these people. Zombies are awesome, and all it takes is a little creativity to make an awesome zombie film. Like, say, an old woman dropping a piano on a zombie. That’s all it takes. That’s all I need.

• Cole Abaius at FIlm School Rejects isn’t as into the piano death scene, and he wonders how this will fit into the typically profound zombie genre:
  

  I don’t think there are going to be any stark lessons about humanity hidden within Zombieland. I think it’s mostly just going to be Woody Harrelson’s character taking out the brain-hungry maniacs in evermore creative ways.

  However I did learn the importance of hand sanitizing after dealing with dead bodies

• Marc Bernardin at Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch notes the prevalence of zombie plots, but not funny ones:
  

  Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a zombie: in Jane Austen, in Harvard lectures, in excellent comic books, and awesomely horrible movies. Undead is the new black. But with the exception of the phenomenal Shaun of the Dead, zombies aren’t usually played for laughs. And then comes the trailer for Zombieland.

• endymi0n at SciFiCool.com believes comedic zombie movies are all that’s to be permitted now:
  

  Zombies are really hard to take seriously now. We reached the pinnacle of Zombie terror in 28 days later, probably the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. Since then, it’s been bucketfuls of Zombie lunchbox letdowns. I’m happy to see Zombies now being used for righteous comedic purposes.

• Louise McGregor at Filmstalker isn’t even sure we need another comedy zombie movie after Shaun:
  

  Zombieland is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Zombies have taken over the world, and survivors are just trying to stay alive…It’s a fairly simple premise. There are a lot of zombies, and they need killing. I can’t help but think that Shaun of the Dead did this a lot better, but hey it’s only a trailer.

• Owen Williams at Empire calls this the “American Shaun of the Dead” and presumes that one former zombie scribe will like this one too:
  

  When 28 Days Later came out, writer Alex Garland talked about what he felt was the unacknowledged reaction of many viewers to zombie-armageddon films: the feeling that it would be brilliant to be practically alone in an empty world. That totally seems to be the vibe here, and we say bring it on!

• William Goss at Horror Squad (and Cinematical) also wants the Douglas Adams-like narration in the film:
  

  The tone of at least the trailer (I could see the narration carrying over to the film) strikes me as something like Shaun of the Dead crossed with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and I for one don’t think that intersection’s a bad place to be.

• Mark at I Watch Stuff also likes the HHGTTG vibe:
  

  It’s Natural Born Killers, with zombies, only not at all!…Sir Ian McKellen delivers Stephen-Fry-in-Hitchhiker’s-Guide-style narration over the whole thing, and it’s a joy to hear Gandalf say the word “zombie.” A real sandwich for your ears

• Bruce Moyle at (Cool) Shite on the Tube is also down with the HHGTTG feel:
  

  Actualy the narration makes me think of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and that is always a plus in my book…Zombies are my thing if done right and without seeing anything else of this but the trailer, I am excited.

• Alex Billington at First Showing makes another comparison, but he seems more interested in Emma Stone than zombies:
  

  This kind of looks like if Adventureland and Shaun of the Dead and I Am Legend were mixed together into one undead comedic masterpiece. Not only does it look like it has a whole lot of great zombie kills in it, but it looks like it might have a great little plot involving Emma Stone. Does she fall in love with Jesse Eisenberg? Does that really matter?

• Kellvin Chavez at Latino Review also makes the Adventureland comparison:
  

  I actually liked the trailer, looks like a lot of fun. At one point for those people who have seen Greg Mottola’s movie “ADVENTURELAND”, it looked like it Zombies went to Adventureland to pay Jesse Eisenberg a visit.

• Vince Mancini at Film Drunk wins the award for least excited:
  

  Zombieland is a film with a concept so boring I can barely bring myself to write about it.  It stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus and Tallahassee (get it? their names are cities!), two guys who kill zombies.  The zombies chase them and want to eat their brains, but they kill them in funny ways, and somehow this goes on for two hours…This movie feels like it was written by Judah Friedlander’s hat.

• Dustin Rowles at Pajiba wins the award for most excited:
  

  I want to be inside this movie. I want to take it to the prom and feel it up in the back of a Volkswagen. I want to hold it and squeeze and call it George. And then I want it to eat my face off…Oh God. I think I might be crying a little. Jesus: My nose is bleeding. It’s just like the first time I had sex!

Peep the trailer below: