The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale (2019)

This movie is AMAZING. I'm not a die hard fan of zombie genre.. but this... is good. Lets not compare to Hollywood zombie movie style like Resident Evil series.
But this movie brings you a different kind of zombie story. It has lots of comedy. I love how the writers create the plot and the casts were great. I watch this movie because of Kim Nam Gil.. but Jung Ga Ram surprises me with an almost no lines in the movie. His acting was great.
Each of the characters were portrayed really well. I would say the funniest is the "father" in this movie.. his immunity to the zombie virus really highlighted the whole movie.
I love how the made the ending. Its did not end as a cliff hanger kind of story. Also, the zombie make up is not that scary. Oh the oldies song they played throughout the movies added some classic style to the movie.
Overall.. great cast great story and great movie.
If you are looking for a light movie with zombie genre.. this is the one you should watch.. It engaged you from the start till the end.
Enjoy....

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Quite fun despite some pacing issue and unlikeable characters

This movie is about the encounter of a zombie and a quite odd family living in a small village in the countryside. Each member of the family as well as the zombie has his/her own quirks making the encounter and subsequent adventures quite fun to follow. In terms of tonality, the film is really more parodic / comedic than horrific with a smalltown vibe as well.

The casting was pretty good but I never fully felt connected to any of the characters. I was not rooting for their survival at all which is quite an issue given the zombie thematic. Most of the characters are quite unpleasant and I cannot help to feel that some of the narrative arcs and development would have been much more engaging if I liked them. I do not think that it is the actors fault but rather the writing...MVP of the movie is clearly the character of Nam Joo, the pregnant wife, played by Uhm Ji Won, she made fantastic !!!

The production was pretty good, you really feel the village atmosphere and the action scenes were nice. I wish it would have been much more gore and raw...But they went into another direction, more caricatural and comical, and were at least consistent following their filmmaking choice. The soundtrack was quite nice and set properly the ambiance.

I would recommend this to people looking for a "found-family" movie with a zombie twist. It is a rather original take on the zombie genre and is quite fun to follow despite some issue in its pacing. I was a bit disappointed by the lack of emotions and connections I felt toward the characters, I would have love to be more engaged... It is kind of a mix between 2 movies "A Werewolf Boy" and "Extreme Job", so if you enjoyed one of those, you might want to try this one as well!

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The humor in this movie is made for 12 year olds. Seriously, this movie fails as a horror comedy even though there's literally no horror and has more comedy or at least thats what they intended when they made this generic horror comedy of a movie. If you've seen horror comedies or comedies in general as long as I have, you can see that this movie's attempts at comedy are nothing but overused attempts at humor other movies have done plenty of times. The humor in this movie is cliche and generic. A good example of this would be the zombie getting hit by a vehicle as something big is about to happen is the most overused gag they would do in those Scary Movie movies. Not to mention that the makeup done on the zombie looks like some kid cheaply dressed up as a zombie for Halloween. If you've never seen any horror comedies period, then you might get a laugh out of this. But if you want a brilliantly funny horror comedy around zombies, go watch Shawn of the Dead or Zombieland than this unfunny waste of time.

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