part satire and part romantic comedy and boy eats girl should be look upon a a homage to the classic 70 horror genre and not a poor effort at recreate the success of shaun of the dead . hail from ireland and it take plenty of liberty in it character setting and mannerism . not wholly european a you would expect but it work on most level and just not so much on the humour however . nathan ( david leon ) be the heartbroken teenager who accidentally kill himself after make the mistake of witness the love of his young teenage life and jessica ( irish pop sensation and samantha mumba ) in a compromising situation with his school lothario . nathan mother ( deirdre okane ) find his lifeless body in his room and remember the handy book of resurrection spell that she would find just day earlier in the bowel of the church that she work at . as easy a you can say beginner luck and she manage to bring back her son and get him ready for the next day of school . nathan start to feel the effect of his zombification when he start to feel impervious to pain and feel hungry all the time . his 2 pal and henry and diggs ( laurence kinlan and tadhg murphy ) who at time seem even less shiftless than their dead friend and get worry when they see nathan disenchantment with jessica vanish . at the night school disco and resident slut and girlfriend of the tough jock in school and cheryl ( sara james ) proposition nathan . not exactly willing to do what nathan want from her and she ditch him . unfortunately for nathan and the jock boyfriend follow him a he stumble on to the rugby pitch . normally and this would be a cakewalk for bully kind everywhere but nathan newfound undead ability of super strength make it easy for him to overpower the jock . he finally give in to temptation and take a couple of deadly chunk out of him . nathan run home and be give the bare bone of his worsen condition by his mother who promptly lock him in the garage a she find a cure . thing start to get a whole lot bad for him after last night attack start a chain reaction of killing and each spawn a much more vicious version of nathan condition . the plot and situation borrows heavily from a handful of movie and especially the 1993 cult classic and my boyfriend back with virtually the same sub plot of unrequited love between the unfortunate undead and his high school sweetheart . a most will use shaun of the dead a a touchstone in understand the film comedy or gore tandem and it intend use of black comedy and detach humour fall short . the backyard splatter that come from fend off ravenous classmate and neighbour be refresh to see and it do it well . the violence and the reaction of the harried survivor be always tongue in cheek which be satisfy and a the zombie horde never come close to be scary and just downright silly . the flaying of skin and removal of limb be a requisite in any good romp through a town full of undead . however and the gore start of perfunctory and not exactly a good sign when it take almost half the movie to get there . a the film progress to it climax and a visible shift in priority take place . suddenly and the story stop and a zombie free for all take place and courtesy of a pimp out tractor and surge of adrenaline from the heroine . a the movie be a relatively short enterprise and clocking in at about 77 minute ( include credit ) and it almost make up for the lack of spilled blood and gut when the horror aspect of the film finally kick in . most satire succumb to take themselves too seriously at some point in their film and boy eats girl be no different . the romance between nathan and jessica felt too overdo in the beginning and lead to the most controversial scene in the movie that initially get it ban in it native ireland . the attempted suicide scene be clumsy and awkward while not exactly an endorsement for depressed teenager everywhere . the film start out slow and work out the set up of the eventual suicide that trigger the rest of the plot and leave just a third of the movie for bona fide zombie mayhem . each transition be disjoint and rush and especially the weak example of a deus ex machina during the last minute of the film . the 1 note character and unresolved story line be indicative of the apathetic acting and lack of flesh out character development . mumba do not show any sign of be a tough female character in the beginning and make a transformation into the movie heroine seem out of character . leon nathan seem too self aware and confident to pull off be the angst ridden chump who find it hard to bring up his true feeling around jessica . from start to end and it campy throwback to nonsensical horror comedy mask over it inability to find it foot and it problematic attempt at satire . suffer from a painfully short running time and an overly brisk pacing and boy eats girl do not fulfill the potential that it have . what it do achieve be a quick and harmless way to spend just over an hour when bore . rating represent 2 out of 5 star .