This is hardly the most promising premise for a romantic comedy, but damned if Warm Bodiesâ€"directed by Jonathan Levine and adapted from the novel by Isaac Marionâ€"doesn't somehow bring it to life. Nicholas Hoult stars as "R," the remaining letters of
Warm Bodies is being billed as a zombie rom-com, which is unoriginal enough, but it's not even that. It does start off with some stabs at comedy, as R (a suitably puppy-dog-ish Nicholas Hoult), a young zombie wandering through life (or I guess death),
Dead boy meets girl in a clever new zombie love story.
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This is hardly the most promising premise for a romantic comedy, but damned if Warm Bodiesâ€"directed by Jonathan Levine and adapted from the novel by Isaac Marionâ€"doesn't somehow bring it to life. Nicholas Hoult stars as "R," the remaining letters of
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