Burying the Ex (2014)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Personally, this movie could have been better. I went in with high expectations, which made it more of a disappointment. So, basically, Max (Anton Yelchin) is now dating this girl that he just moved in with, Evelyn (Ashley Greene). The relationship is dysfunctional, and so Max seeks help from his half-brother, Travis (Oliver Cooper), to break up with her. She dies, and when Max starts dating a new girl, Olivia (Alexandra Daddario), Evelyn comes back from the grave and still wants to date him.That's the gist of it. It's supposedly a comedy horror, but it doesn't really succeed at either of those. We'll talk about the horror first. It's not scary. It's not Gorey, either. There's one scene that has a lot of gore, and could be considered scary, but even THAT was tame. There are a lot of references sprinkled throughout for true horror lovers, but that's really it.The comedy was...terrible. Hardly any of the jokes were actually funny, and only a few were chuckle worthy purely for the shock value. It's continuously thrown in our faces that Travis is Max's half brother, and just that fact seems to be the joke, but like, it held nothing to the plot at all. I'm pretty sure they only did that to make one lame joke at the very beginning. Ashley Greene's character is the only slightly funny thing in this movie, and even then, she fails. Basically the joke is "Ohh look! I'm DED and I want to have SEX with u!!11 Sex is hilarious, right?" And, that's about as far as the humor goes. They kept trying to push Max into these awkward situations, but I couldn't laugh about it at all, cause I didn't care about him. All of the characters are boring, cliches with even less depth than a peice of paper. Travis is the slob who thinks sex is funny, Max is a spineless, timid, pathetic human being, etcThe acting isn't the best either. Not the worst ever, but I was cringing pretty bad at a few parts. However, for the type of movie this is, the effects were actually pretty good.I don't want to go on forever, so that's all I'll be saying about it. It's not the worst move I've ever seen, but it's not the best either. There was definately room for improvement. It was entertaining enough, and I did chuckle a few times, even if it was from the effects or the attempts at humor. If you have nothing else to watch, I'd recommend maybe giving this a shot, but don't expect anything phenomenal.

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.

Um . . . well . . . "quirky and romantic". That's as apt of a description as one can hope for, I guess. Ridiculously campy? Of course, that's the whole point. It had its moments, although at times it was perhaps trying a bit too hard to be over the top ridiculous.Some scenes were reasonably well done, but at a certain point the endless zombie clichés', intended as they were, got to be a bit much. This is one of those productions that could have actually been really funny, there was definitely a story concept here, but it just wore thin after awhile.It's not quite Plan 9 from Outer Space, nor is it Rocky Horror . . . sort of in between somewhere. But hey, I've seen an hour+ spent on far worse examples of attempted filmcraft.

After reading some bad reviews I was ready to drop this movie. However it was late to search anything else of just 1h30 min, so I gave it a go with my hand on the remote ready to press stop.It wasn't too bad. I let the remote aside and grabbed a pizza. The story is a copy paste of "Life after Beth" at a point I am surprised there is no legal claims there. Anyhow this one is slightly more colorful has better filming and acting, together with eye-candies in the... eyes of Dadario. That, takes the film to a teen-romantic-comedy style where you might wonder why no such blue eyes ever stalked you when you separated.My gf and I enjoyed it overall, but Joe Dante has lost his magic.