Planet Terror (2007)

Splat!... Glop!... Eek!... Retch!... Woof!... Puke!... Howl!... Fart!... Munch!... Growl!... Oink!... Burp!... Ooof!... Grunt!... Scream!... Chomp!... Pow!... Squeal!... Bam!... Chuckle!... Ouch!... Zonk!... Meow!... Slurp!... Bark!... Slither!... Ooze!... (Get the picture?)... And they all lived happily ever after! - THE END.

If Planet Terror had been cut back to the length of the preceding Machete trailer with only the high lights left in, than this movie might have amused as yet another fake trailer, but with a running time of two hours this one is unfortunately a full length Grindhouse imitation..The movie is basically a string of set scenes connected by the flimsiest of plots and filled with equally flimsy characters.This might have all been in reference to the Grindhouse movies as known in the United States, but fortunately for my country we were spared the under par movies as they never crossed the ocean and thus the reference was meaningless to me up to now and I assume to those too young to recall them good old days watching these rubbish movies. Not only is it meaningless to a sizable portion of the worlds population, but Grindhouse features are something you really do not want to get to understand as these movies were bad for a reason and it begs the question why you want to reference a bad movie by making another movie that is exactly the same, that is: equally bad. Now I will go as far as to say that there is some difference, like the actors in Planet Terror are somewhat better no doubt and some of the camera handling seems better, but it is all marvelous ruined by lack of the essential things that makes a movie a good story, such as good characters, a good script and good conversations.This movie has enough stamina for a trailer, a lengthy one perhaps, but something more makes it an exercise in futility, a grind so to speak, and one we can thank Rodriguez and Tarantino to have burdened the world with. Watch Zombieland or Shaun of the Dead instead.

Very disappointing. I liked the Quentin Tarantino contribution to the Grindhouse pair of movies, "Death Proof". I have always been more of a Tarantino fan than Robert Rodriguez, but thought "Sin City" was brilliant and expected at least something entertaining for "Planet Terror". No, it is incredibly lame. Plot is full of holes, action sequences are incredibly contrived, acting is wooden.I realise that this was a homage to the Z-grade cheap horror Grindhouse movies of the 70s, but Rodriguez didn't have to be so faithful to the genre and make a crap movie.

I enjoy this movie. It's an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse theme that is so popular over the last decade. I still hate the terrible quality, but as I said in my Grindhouse: Death Proof review, it's made the be like that. I think that annoys me more than the actual bad quality.This movie about a zombie apocalypse. After an experimental bio-weapon is accidentally, sort of purpose, released, it turns thousands of people into zombie-like creatures. They'll eat anyone. A small group of people survive the initial attacks and somehow end up in the same place. They then have to work together to stay alive. Overall, I give this movie an 8 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Awesome.