Masterful Movie

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Romantic horror comedy of sorts,Not entirely watchable but not entirely a flop either

Not sure why this is listed under "horror" aside from lack of a subcategory, but it's a light hearted, zombie ex-girlfriend flick. No big shocks or twists, just some fun psycho zombie entertainment. Perfect for when you want to watch something but aren't sure what yert.

Initially, I had expected a bit more comedy element from director Joe Dante's "Burying the Ex". With that being said, don't get me wrong here, because this is still an enjoyable movie for what it turned out to be. It just failed to live up to what I had hoped it would be.The story is about Max (played by Anton Yelchin) who is not overly happy in his relationship with Evelyn (played by Ashley Greene). And when he finally musters up the courage to break up with her, she dies in a car accident. But he quickly finds out that a promise of being together forever has a very literal meaning as Evelyn returns from the grave.The characters in "Burying the Ex" were good, and they were mainly the reason for the movie staying afloat. They were nicely detailed and even more so brought to life on the screen by the acting talents cast for portraying them. My personal favorite had to be Travis (played by Oliver Cooper)."Burying the Ex" is lacking a handful of good laughs and funny moments, and as such, the movie is suffering from that. Which essentially left the movie in a very mediocre state. That was a shame, because the movie really had potential for much more.Having seen "Burying the Ex", I can say that this is the type of movie that you watch once, then put it away on the shelf, bagged and tagged.My rating of "Burying the Ex" is a score of five stars out of ten, because the movie was very generic and mediocre to me. I just had expected a bit more from it.

Everyone has that one psycho ex. Well... not everyone. But a lot of folks. I do, many do, enough do for there to be a whole lot of movies on the subject. Joe Dante's Burying The Ex takes that predicament one step farther, straight into the realm of the supernatural, as the director always does. We haven't had a Dante flick in a while (he's the genius behind Gremlins, Innerspace and Small Soldiers, for those who don't know), and it amazes me the lack of marketing which led to me taking my sweet time in seeing this. Glad I did, because it's a treat. Any headline that boasts Dante, Ashley Greene, Anton Yelchin and the luscious Alexandra Daddario in the same film is automatically a rental, before I've even read a synopsis. This one is a darkly comic zombie romantic comedy and subtle Hammer Studios homage, an irresistible flavour indeed. Yelchin is a lad who works at a halloween FX store, has an affinity for retro horror and all things macabre, and is dating prissy Ashley Greene, who couldn't be more different than him. She's an abrasive, vegan type A personality jealous manipulative control freak banshee who is sinking their relationship quicker than the Titanic. Enter Alexandra Daddario, a hip, horror movie themed ice cream parlor owner, and sparks fly between her and Yelchin. Those sparks are shot down by a dagger glare from Greene, and it's in that moment Yelchin realizes he has to dump her. Before he can do the deed, she's fatally hit by a bus, dies and essentially solves his problem. Or does she? Cue Gothic organ music. Before he can take Alexandra on one date, she rises from the grave, now a sex starved psycho zombie bitch hell bent on keeping him for her own, pretty much forever. Quite the situation eh? Dante is never one for metaphors and heady trickery (a refreshing trait), all of his premises are straight up, face value, 100% genre simplicity. She's dead, he needs to somehow kill her... again. It's charming and lighthearted, while still retaining the macabre, like Tim Burton by way of Stephen Sommers. Greene is disarmingly hilarious as everyone's worst nightmare of an ex, Yelchin is earnest and exasperated in equal doses, and Daddario is a babe and a half, always winning me over with them eyes. They all frolic in Dante's casually R rated inter zone where everything is purely rooted in movie-land, and nothing needs to be seriously thought out. The writing is sharp, heartfelt and riddled with easter eggs for fans of horror from back in a better day. Brilliant stuff.