JamesG
02-26-2010, 06:59 PM
Movie Reviews: The Crazies
Another zombie movie is upon us, and The Crazies, based on a George Romero horror classic of the '70s, is getting the kind of reviews zombie movies usually get.
Says Kyle Smith in the New York Post: "Even for a horror movie, The Crazies is a bore, and we're talking about the most boring genre this side of dysfunctional-family indie drama"
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times is tired of them but figures that they probably represent a formula that any aspiring young screenwriter can adopt: "You need zombies. You need heroes. At first there's mystery, and then the horror. You describe lots of Jump/Noise/Chord situations. When you figure you're up to around 90 minutes, the sun can rise."
Mick Hale of the New York Times notes that Romero served as executive producer on the new film. "Unfortunately," he writes, It doesn't have his style or sense of humor."
Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News calls it cheesy. "There's nothing wrong with cheesy horror," he writes,"so long as the cheese doesn't melt like muenster in the sun and the horror is genuinely scary. Unfortunately, The Crazies has warmed-over chills and a muddled, zombie-like execution."
Surprisingly, given most critics' predisposition towards the genre, Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune awards it 3 1/2 stars, describing it as "one of the year's nicest bloody surprises," and going on to write, "Nearly everything about it works."
And Ty Burr in the Boston Globe praises: "It's extremely solid stuff - about as good as you could hope from a B-movie retread."
-IMDB News
Another zombie movie is upon us, and The Crazies, based on a George Romero horror classic of the '70s, is getting the kind of reviews zombie movies usually get.
Says Kyle Smith in the New York Post: "Even for a horror movie, The Crazies is a bore, and we're talking about the most boring genre this side of dysfunctional-family indie drama"
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times is tired of them but figures that they probably represent a formula that any aspiring young screenwriter can adopt: "You need zombies. You need heroes. At first there's mystery, and then the horror. You describe lots of Jump/Noise/Chord situations. When you figure you're up to around 90 minutes, the sun can rise."
Mick Hale of the New York Times notes that Romero served as executive producer on the new film. "Unfortunately," he writes, It doesn't have his style or sense of humor."
Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News calls it cheesy. "There's nothing wrong with cheesy horror," he writes,"so long as the cheese doesn't melt like muenster in the sun and the horror is genuinely scary. Unfortunately, The Crazies has warmed-over chills and a muddled, zombie-like execution."
Surprisingly, given most critics' predisposition towards the genre, Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune awards it 3 1/2 stars, describing it as "one of the year's nicest bloody surprises," and going on to write, "Nearly everything about it works."
And Ty Burr in the Boston Globe praises: "It's extremely solid stuff - about as good as you could hope from a B-movie retread."
-IMDB News