vs.
Seeing as these are both “action-comedies”, we’d thought they match up nicely in a battle.
Better Chance of Action
Zombieland – yah, there’s lots of gun firing and “zombie-killin’”, but just shooting off a bunch of rounds at brainless bodies isn’t action, it’s a video game. If the zombies were vampires, however, it’d be a totally different story.
Whip It - I guarantee we will see 3 cat fights, 2 episodes of pulling hair and no less than 6 body piercings being ripped out.
Whip it! Whip it's real bad...
Edge: Whip It
Better Chance of Comedy
Zombieland – while there’s bound to be stupid humor they’ll try to get from killing zombies, there’s a good chance we’ll also see some awkwardness humor from Jesse Eisenberg, and (for a tiny bit) Bill Murray. Just hope they don’t rely too much on one-liners after a zombie-kill (CSI: Miami‘s Horatio has already laid claim to any cheesy death-related zinger).
Whip It - Ellen Page is so dark and serious that she is funny ( I think). This is also Drew Barrymore’s directing debut and if she doesn’t have legit comedy credentials, I don’t know who does…
- Edge: Zombieland
Careful Woody, Caruso is watching...
Leading Man
Zombieland – apparentally, Jesse Eisenberg is making a name for himself by starring primarily in movies that end in “land” (the other being Adventureland). Otherwise we’d just know him as “Michael Cera with a jew-fro”. Woody Harrelson, meanwhile, it out to prove that rednecks with guns can be good for this country.
Whip It- This is a women empowerment movie. They don’t need men. That is why they got Jimmy Fallon…
Edge: Zombieland
When they make a movie for Candyland, guess who's gonna be called?
Leading Woman
Zombieland – Emma Stone is hot, but she was entirely unconvincing in her romantic role towards Jonah Hill in Superbad. Then again, even Meryl Streep couldn’t act like she was attracted to that dude.
Whip It- So, I am looking this as kinda like a League of their Own 2. Ellen Page is like Gena Davis and Eve is like Madonna. Sorry Drew Barrymore- You are the new Rosy.
why is Drew wearing flair? And by the way, who names a girl Drew?
Edge: Whip It
Preview
Zombieland- ok, we get it with the fast-motion to slow-motion camera shots. Other than that, we see a bunch of zombie-killing and people making wisecracks about it. I would give some points for creativity if this wasn’t basically the same premise as Shaun of the Dead.
Whip It- Ellen Page doesn’t fit in so she does what all losers do- finds a group of social deviants and joins them in their activities. Luckily, she ran into a group of roller derby girls and not scientologists.
Hola! Necesito un testo de stresso?
Edge: Whip It
Another gratuitous, random reference to Jesse Eisenberg being Jewish? I’m pretty sure that, at this point in the game, every such reference should be accompanied by a mention of the fact that Natalie Portman, Logan Lerman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paul Rudd and Mila Kunis are also all Jewish. That’s for starters.