Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

suraj-talreja01 Romantic horror comedy of sorts,Not entirely watchable but not entirely a flop either

Anonymous Andy (Minus_The_Beer) Submissive horror-fan Max (Anton Yelchin) is stuck in a relationship he can't get out of. His domineering but beautiful girlfriend, Evelyn (Ashley Greene) re-decorates his apartment without his permission, won't allow him to drink milk and other such offenses. Quite frankly, Max would rather be with a cute ice cream shop owner (Alexandra Daddario) but doesn't quite know how to make the proper transition. As luck would have it, Evelyn gets hit by a bus and dies. End of story right? Wrong. A zombie-comedy not unlike, say, "Warm Bodies," "Burying The Ex" is the latest offering from director Joe Dante, who brought such beloved genre fare as "Gremlins" and "The Howling" to the big screen. While not quite up to the standards of said halcyon era, Dante works well within a limited budget and with a capable cast. Yelchin plays the hapless Max perfectly (when will someone give this guy bigger and more prominent work?) while Greene plays the waspy, oppressive and yet irresistible counterpart to a T. Even when the film doesn't quite fire on all cylinders, it remains enjoyable thanks in no small part to its talented young cast.Unfortunately, the film feels somewhat stagnant in other places. It doesn't quite riff on genre tropes as much as one would hope, working from a surprisingly pedestrian script. Originally conceived as a 15 minute short, "Burying The Ex" feels like a small-scale concept stretched too thin. To be frank, this would have made for a great "Tales From The Crypt" or "Creepshow" segment. As a feature- length film, however, it comes up short. Dante doesn't bring the anarchic spark he brought to "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" or the heart of "Matinee," becoming another in a long line of horror directors currently spinning their wheels.It's not that "Burying The Ex" is bad, per se. But it all feels fairly pedestrian and, well, forgettable. You could bury this one in your subconscious and just forget you ever saw it altogether. And that's a shame. With a more than capable cast and a proved director, "Burying The Ex" should have added up to more than just a pleasant 90 minute diversion. Add it to your Netflix queue, have a drink or two and enjoy the silly shenanigans, but don't be surprised if you forget to call the "Ex" back in the future.

Argemaluco After a prolific career during the 20th century, director Joe Dante decided to reduce the frequency of his projects in the 21st one, almost exclusively limiting himself to TV series and occasional short films (not to mention his popular "retro" site Trailers from Hell). In this century, he has only made three films: the mediocre Looney Toons: Back in Action; the entertaining, but not very memorable, The Hole; and, more recently, Burying the Ex, a likable horror comedy which evokes his independent period (when he worked with the great Roger Corman), shot on a low cost and in a very short time; it's definitely not among his best movies, but it still deserves a moderate recommendation, specially to movie buffs who appreciate Dante's naughty style and the constant references to classic fantastic cinema. Max, the main character of Burying the Ex, works at a disguise and Halloween decorations shop, something which justifies the presence of classic posters, specialized magazines (Fangoria, Famous Monsters, Video Watchdog) and fragments of films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Night of the Living Dead. And we even have incidental tracks from Tarantula, It Came from Outer Space, and I don't know how many other ones. But those are just audiovisual ornaments. The most important thing in Burying the Ex is the bizarre love triangle between Max, Evelyn and Olivia. Like in many other zombie films, the infection (or curse, in this case) isn't useful only to create the threat of the living dead, but also to explore some aspect of human experience. For example, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) employed the zombies as a metaphor of racism, consumerism and class division (respectively). Burying the Ex takes a more humorous route, using the zombie as the metaphor of the "hellish girlfriend" who wants to control her boyfriend's life and alter his way of being; it might not be a particularly deep idea, but it adds some substance to this humble film. Anton Yelchin brings a good performance as a docile "geek" submissive to his girlfriend's requests, while Ashley Greene transmits Evelyn's emotional evolution with conviction, and Alexandra Daddario brings a natural and credible performance as a romantic interest more compatible with Max's personality (by the way, it's difficult not to question how Yelchin manages to attract such spectacularly beautiful women... that might be the authentic fantastic element of the film). On the negative side, Alan Trezza's screenplay is too obvious, with many predictable situations which lack of the imagination I expected in a film directed by Dante. Fortunately, the screenplay improves during the third act, when the romance clichés give way to the more immediate danger of the zombie girlfriend, almost invincible and willing to do anything to retain her boyfriend. I'm a fan of Dante's, and that might have made an influence in my appreciation of Burying the Ex; it's definitely not a great or highly memorable film, but it kept me entertained and it keeps a continuous degree of tension which is easy to lose whenever comedy and horror are combined.

charles000 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.