Paul Magne Haakonsen 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.

Argemaluco After a prolific career during the 20th century, director Joe Dante decided to reduce the frequency of his projects in the 21st one, almost exclusively limiting himself to TV series and occasional short films (not to mention his popular "retro" site Trailers from Hell). In this century, he has only made three films: the mediocre Looney Toons: Back in Action; the entertaining, but not very memorable, The Hole; and, more recently, Burying the Ex, a likable horror comedy which evokes his independent period (when he worked with the great Roger Corman), shot on a low cost and in a very short time; it's definitely not among his best movies, but it still deserves a moderate recommendation, specially to movie buffs who appreciate Dante's naughty style and the constant references to classic fantastic cinema. Max, the main character of Burying the Ex, works at a disguise and Halloween decorations shop, something which justifies the presence of classic posters, specialized magazines (Fangoria, Famous Monsters, Video Watchdog) and fragments of films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Night of the Living Dead. And we even have incidental tracks from Tarantula, It Came from Outer Space, and I don't know how many other ones. But those are just audiovisual ornaments. The most important thing in Burying the Ex is the bizarre love triangle between Max, Evelyn and Olivia. Like in many other zombie films, the infection (or curse, in this case) isn't useful only to create the threat of the living dead, but also to explore some aspect of human experience. For example, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) employed the zombies as a metaphor of racism, consumerism and class division (respectively). Burying the Ex takes a more humorous route, using the zombie as the metaphor of the "hellish girlfriend" who wants to control her boyfriend's life and alter his way of being; it might not be a particularly deep idea, but it adds some substance to this humble film. Anton Yelchin brings a good performance as a docile "geek" submissive to his girlfriend's requests, while Ashley Greene transmits Evelyn's emotional evolution with conviction, and Alexandra Daddario brings a natural and credible performance as a romantic interest more compatible with Max's personality (by the way, it's difficult not to question how Yelchin manages to attract such spectacularly beautiful women... that might be the authentic fantastic element of the film). On the negative side, Alan Trezza's screenplay is too obvious, with many predictable situations which lack of the imagination I expected in a film directed by Dante. Fortunately, the screenplay improves during the third act, when the romance clichés give way to the more immediate danger of the zombie girlfriend, almost invincible and willing to do anything to retain her boyfriend. I'm a fan of Dante's, and that might have made an influence in my appreciation of Burying the Ex; it's definitely not a great or highly memorable film, but it kept me entertained and it keeps a continuous degree of tension which is easy to lose whenever comedy and horror are combined.

poe-48833 Filmmakers, please take note: THIS is the proper use of clichéd dialogue. Milk it for what it's worth. BURYING THE EX (a play on "Let's just shake hands and bury the axe.") makes excellent use of clichés like, "I sorta... threw her under the bus..." and "You're DEAD to me!" and "She... moved on..." Even the slacker brother, Travis, a character normally little more than ANNOYING in a movie, is funny because of his lines: "You've gone NECRO, bro!" BURYING THE EX is perhaps the closest we'll ever come to seeing T.M. Wright's classic A MANHATTEN GHOST STORY brought to the screen and it's to Joe Dante's credit that he turned the trick with a truly wicked sense of humor. This is the movie that SCREAM wanted to be (but WASN'T.) (And, lest I forget, there's also the cameo by Dick Miller.)

adi_2002 A neat story in witch a guy is at one step to break-off the relationship with his girlfriend because she begins to be mean with other peoples and authoritarian in the house. Soon Max meets an ice- scream clerk and she falls in love with him and the faith makes that his current evil girlfriend will by hit by a bus and die but it's to soon to be happy because even after death she will return to stay aside him. What he can do to make her vanish from his life and be with Olivia the more cute and polite girl who has a lot in common? To be fair I didn't know what to expect from this movie, I though it will be a horror but turns out to be more like a black comedy with less disturbing and gory scenes. The combination is good the acting of the evil girlfriend who has return from the dead as a zombie makes the whole film to be entertaining. The performance of Anton Yelchin I kinda dislike it, it seems on the screen to be bored and soft just like "ok let's finish this already". I liked him more in Charlie Bartlett. Perhaps a more lively actor would have been a better choice or a comedy one since this one has humor in it.But still even so, for the viewers who love this zombie-love- resurrect type, this will make a Sunday afternoon even more sunny.