Anyone with half
the mind of an adult will definitely tell you not to go see this movie. Burying
the Ex was made for lovers of B-rated horror movies who don’t mind a lame
plot. The screenplay lacks any form of maturity, and the problem with such a
screenplay is that you’ll sit through the movie wondering what else they could
come up with—because it’s so bad, you can’t accept that it could get worse.
If you’ve ever
liked zombie movies and the whole idea of the dead coming back to life, you’ll
be utterly disappointed with how Joe Dante decided to channel this movie.
Joe has been in the movie-making business for a long time. Making horror
films—or movies about odd creatures coming to life—is something he’s known for.
I liked his old movies, like Gremlins (1984), Gremlins 2: The
New Batch (1990), and Small Soldiers (1998), but I disliked this
one. The movie wasn’t horror enough, which was the idea since it’s a
horror-comedy, but the comedy wasn’t even funny enough to make up for the lack
of horror.
I guess my only
thrill was seeing Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) from Star Trek, but I
should’ve waited another year to see him in the next Star Trek movie, Star
Trek Beyond (2016).
The movie’s plot
centers on Max (Anton Yelchin), who is dating and living with his
environmentally obsessed girlfriend. She makes Max eat healthy and tries to
keep him away from behaviors that would be bad for him. She even tries to cut
his half-brother (a drunk, jobless waste) out of his life so that Max’s life
can be great.
Yep, she’s a
controlling freak, and Max didn’t like it for a second. But she was beautiful,
sexy, and caring, so Max just hung on—until she took the whole
"green" thing too far.
The movie takes its time making us hate Max’s girlfriend, Evelyn (Ashley
Greene), for her controlling nature, but it fails to show why the things she
was trying to keep Max away from were actually bad. In my opinion, she was the
best thing that ever happened to him.
Max decides to
break up with her, but she dies before the breakup. And since they had somehow
wished to be together forever in front of a freakishly devilish genie, Evelyn
crawls out of her grave to get back together with Max.
Well, if you need a movie to watch to pass the time… I’d advise you to go exercise until you’re worn out, take a shower, and go to bed instead.
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