Movie Review: Planet Terror (Grindhouse)

Happened to catch Planet Terror, the campy and over-the-top zombie flick from Robert Rodriguez, this weekend on cable. This is the perfect movie to come on after you’ve watched something else, and just watch it and enjoy it for what it is: entertaining horrible stupid fun. The zombies are wild, the violence bloody spattered to the nth degree, the sex limited but kind of silly/sultry (and interrupted by a fake broken/missing reel) and enough old film stock effects to make you enjoy digital.

If you go to this movie thinking you’re going to get some great zombie film with underlying political message or Oscar caliber acting, you’re in the wrong place. This is a flick that seems like Rodriguez and Tarantino sat around with some drinks (or more…?) and thought of all the stupid old cliches of zombie flicks and how to take them to the top level drawer of crazy. They had fun making this, you can have fun watching, but don’t get too worked up about trying to figure it. If you need to, click on the pic and read more than you ever wanted to know on the wikipedia. Or when it comes on cable, just let it play. That’s the sign of a truly fun flick.