The couple’s eventual declarations of eternal love have all the emotional resonance of a fart.Īlso read: Aubrey Plaza, Oliver Platt, Jeff Goldblum Join Johnny Depp in ‘Mortdecai’ It’s hard to know what Zach originally saw in Beth because we never get to see it, either their romance is as superficially rendered as a pencil drawing of a heart.
As Beth progresses deeper into grunting, slurring zombie-dom, Plaza shows us what a hilarious monster she can be (while providing a fun complement to DeHaan’s wounded earnestness).īut the “Parks and Rec” co-star never gets the chance to be human. But to find meaning in loss, you have to know what you’re losing. He’s alive, after all, while she’s not only undead but also getting hungrier.īodily decay is just an apt a metaphor as any for a relationship that’s ending its run. But it’s the mortician’s staples across her chest that convince him they don’t have much of a future anymore. When Zach leans in for a kiss, he discovers an angry red wound on her thigh under her adorable white dress. (The smooth-jazz genre is apparently propped up by the undead.) Her current incarnation is nightmarish by girlfriend standards: she’s violent, dumb, hyper-emotional, uncommunicative, unhygienic, and has godawful taste in music. Zach’s delighted at this second chance at their relationship, of course, even though Beth has clearly changed, and not for the better. has come back from the dead - and that she has no recollection of the break-up she initiated. Reilly and Molly Shannon) may have faked her death, Zach storms into their home to discover that his former S.O. Furious that Beth and her parents ( John C. Twenty-something Zach ( Dane DeHaan) has just embarked on the first stage of grief, after the sudden death of his ex-girlfriend Beth ( Aubrey Plaza) in a hiking accident, when he discovers that she might not be gone after all.
See video: Aubrey Plaza Rises from the Dead in First ‘Life After Beth’ Trailer (Video) Writer-director Jeff Baena offers a gender-flip of last year’s “Warm Bodies” in “Life After Beth,” an emotionally inert, tonally scattershot romance that’s impossible to root for. Thus it’s a bit strange that we’re seeing our second “zom-rom-com” in as many years, with at least a third (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”) in the works. Sorry to say, but your typical zombie just doesn’t have the requisite skill set for seduction being a good conversationalist or not actively decomposing in front of your eyes ranks low in their abilities. There are some things zombies are innately good at, such as tearing apart flesh with their bare hands, and other things they’re quite terrible at, like being sexy.
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