![]() ![]() ![]() But then Beth returns, out of nowhere, and without knowing that she even died. Reilly and Molly Shannon, both so wasted onscreen you hope they at least had a nice relaxing time shooting) and boyfriend, Zach, played by DeHaan. Pee-related mishap?), leaving behind her grieving family (John C. She was bitten by a snake while hiking alone (on her inner thigh, by the way. Here’s your premise: we open after the death of Beth, played by Aubrey Plaza. Life After Beth just keeps failing, each scene being tone deaf or unfunny in its own unique way but all working under a general aesthetic of being shrill, hectic and irritating. The film fails as a comedy, it fails as a relationship story and, worst of all, it really fails as a zombie film. Nothing is funny in Life After Beth, which is a major problem for a comedy. What makes him quirky is that he’s skinny and dorky and not your vision of a gun nut. In this case the brother is a gun nut who works for the local neighborhood security force where he relishes his petty power and gets excited when a zombie apocalypse allows him to finally shoot people. This character, played by Matthew Gray Gubler, is one of those excruciating indie quirky characters who seem to be sprung right from the frames of Napoleon Dynamite. Life After Beth lost me the moment it introduced Dane DeHaan’s brother. ![]()
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