Waste of time

To me, this movie is perfection.

Excellent but underrated film

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

Burying the Ex Is a movie starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, and Alexandra Daddario. A guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie. Burying the Ex is not one of Dante's best films and for sure as hell it's quite silly and dumb but it's still a fun zombie comedy that benefits from excellent work from it's 3 main leads but also even has a Dick Miller cameo which was a nice touch in my opinion. The film at times might get a bit way too silly but it's still not as bad as you might have hurt and please give it a shot. (6/10)

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.

Submissive horror-fan Max (Anton Yelchin) is stuck in a relationship he can't get out of. His domineering but beautiful girlfriend, Evelyn (Ashley Greene) re-decorates his apartment without his permission, won't allow him to drink milk and other such offenses. Quite frankly, Max would rather be with a cute ice cream shop owner (Alexandra Daddario) but doesn't quite know how to make the proper transition. As luck would have it, Evelyn gets hit by a bus and dies. End of story right? Wrong. A zombie-comedy not unlike, say, "Warm Bodies," "Burying The Ex" is the latest offering from director Joe Dante, who brought such beloved genre fare as "Gremlins" and "The Howling" to the big screen. While not quite up to the standards of said halcyon era, Dante works well within a limited budget and with a capable cast. Yelchin plays the hapless Max perfectly (when will someone give this guy bigger and more prominent work?) while Greene plays the waspy, oppressive and yet irresistible counterpart to a T. Even when the film doesn't quite fire on all cylinders, it remains enjoyable thanks in no small part to its talented young cast.Unfortunately, the film feels somewhat stagnant in other places. It doesn't quite riff on genre tropes as much as one would hope, working from a surprisingly pedestrian script. Originally conceived as a 15 minute short, "Burying The Ex" feels like a small-scale concept stretched too thin. To be frank, this would have made for a great "Tales From The Crypt" or "Creepshow" segment. As a feature- length film, however, it comes up short. Dante doesn't bring the anarchic spark he brought to "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" or the heart of "Matinee," becoming another in a long line of horror directors currently spinning their wheels.It's not that "Burying The Ex" is bad, per se. But it all feels fairly pedestrian and, well, forgettable. You could bury this one in your subconscious and just forget you ever saw it altogether. And that's a shame. With a more than capable cast and a proved director, "Burying The Ex" should have added up to more than just a pleasant 90 minute diversion. Add it to your Netflix queue, have a drink or two and enjoy the silly shenanigans, but don't be surprised if you forget to call the "Ex" back in the future.

Um . . . well . . . "quirky and romantic". That's as apt of a description as one can hope for, I guess. Ridiculously campy? Of course, that's the whole point. It had its moments, although at times it was perhaps trying a bit too hard to be over the top ridiculous.Some scenes were reasonably well done, but at a certain point the endless zombie clichés', intended as they were, got to be a bit much. This is one of those productions that could have actually been really funny, there was definitely a story concept here, but it just wore thin after awhile.It's not quite Plan 9 from Outer Space, nor is it Rocky Horror . . . sort of in between somewhere. But hey, I've seen an hour+ spent on far worse examples of attempted filmcraft.