If the funniest part of a movie is a corpse reading an issue of People magazine with Kim Kardashian on the cover, then you know the movie is a complete wreck.

Released with less than two weeks until Valentine’s Day, the movie Warm Bodies, based on Isaac Marion’s novel, was meant to be a romantic comedy, with a hint of horror here and there to show that love can bring even corpses back to life. Unfortunately, I don’t remember Romeo looking much like a zombie.

This is yet another Twilight-style love story, where, in this case, a zombie named R falls in love with, of course, a blonde girl with a gun.  A zombie to the core, R eats the girl’s boyfriend to get rid of his competition. As if that wasn’t weird enough, because he is socially awkward and stutters , he eats the boyfriend’s brain in order to absorb his memories and learn the girl’s name, Julie.

Julie falls in love with R. However, R is just actually the rebound guy. Unfortunately for R, who doesn’t have the brain capacity to see the full picture, he continues to feel love for Julie, thus becoming more human. Their love becomes the spark that revitalizes the rest of the zombies and helps their memories and feelings to come back.

Overall, the story’s aim is not bad, but it was awfully repetitive and lacked any moments that might produce emotional outpouring of the audience. Nothing is dramatic enough. I think in part the zombies take away from that emotion.

Maybe it’s the economy, but the director of Warm Bodies, who also directed 50/50, surprised many with the movie’s fake animations and same old lovey-dovey storyline. I guess they are not being paid that well in Hollywood these days.

Another shock comes from the movie’s reviewers. Critics from both Time and The New York Times agreed that Warm Bodies is a great date move. When did zombies become the spark to romance?

Unless you want to watch a bunch of zombies eating brains and avoid talking talk to your date, don’t watch Warm Bodies. Take your date to nice restaurant or go for a walk in the park instead.