This weekend I saw "Warm Bodies". It immediately looked promising when the main character, a zombie later identified as "R", starts narrating. His narration is portrayed as his thoughts due to the fact he can't speak. His ability to form coherent and complete sentences in his head combined with his inability to speak creates a lighthearted and funny tone. The humor he possesses also adds to that. However, despite his wit I noticed something that really bothered me. When he sits down with his best zombie friend they start talking. Not in thoughts but with real, understandable words. Though the  words are somewhat muffled by their overlapping groans they lost a sense of being "dead". From that point I couldn't bring myself to see R as a "real zombie" and kept seeing him as one who just went through the motions. I'm sure he was supposed to seem different from the rest in the sense that he was more human-like, but almost right from the start he was more human than zombie. "Warm Bodies" also showed major traces of a Romeo and Juliet background. Boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, tries to win girl over. Except in this case the boy is a brain eating zombie and the girl is trained to kill him. Adding on to the likeness of Shakespeare's most famous play is a balcony scene that R and Julie share which, surprisingly, mimics the famous balcony scene that Romeo and Juliet have in the play. But with a name like Julie and the open ended name like R along with the whole "love at first sight" deal who could miss that Shakespeare had a bit to do with this plot? Despite these details I enjoyed the movie very much. It was full of humor and action and kept me engaged the entire time. The brief dialogue that R and his best friend exchange between each other could not have been more perfectly attuned to their personas. When Julie and her R finally connect, though predictable, it was perfectly executed. After escaping the movie's villains known as Bonies, zombies who have just given up and decomposed into a skeletal frame, they land in a pool of water and share a kiss. The camera shows the audience R's eyes which seem to have become bright and more human. After the kiss a shot rings out which hits R in the chest and he begins to bleed. We see he has now turned back into a human and is cured all thanks to Julie's kiss. Even though that type of scene is cliché, the manner in which it happened was very different and I was happy to see a unique variation of the Romeo and Juliet kiss. Jonathan Levine did a great job directing this movie and I, along with the audience in the theater, enjoyed it. B+