Demagogy, Boredom and Stupidity

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2008)

I'm not going to tell you about the super zombie dad or the super carrier mom or the super stupid soldiers, cos the other comments were pretty clear and thorough on that point. What surprises me though, is that no one seems to mention the unbearable demagogic storyline.
Sooooo... according to the filmmakers, children are just brilliant and always worth saving. Even if their IQ is lower than a retard, if they manage to re-infect an entire city just thanks to their incredibly huge brainlessness and, at the end of the movie, selfishly contaminate the rest of the world, you must like them and love them and take care of them, even if that means dying for them. These two kids were just plain idiots and I swear I wanted to shoot them from the moments they entered the screen. But hey, THEY ARE CHILDREN YOU IDIOT SO OF COURSE THEY'RE MARVELOUS AND LOVELY AND CUTE AND NOTHING IS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN TO THEM HAHAHAHA!!!
As for the shaky cam, don't be wronged: there are also very long and pointless scenes where the camera is just not moving at all. Like, for ages.
About the plot holes, some are more annoying than others. OK, we all know Dad is Super Zombie without a cape, so he could have been seen flying or having laser eyes it wouldn't have been much troubling. But what about the mom? Not only didn't she become a zombie herself (immuuuuuune, just a carrier, there, it's so clear!), but she also manages to escape the zombies who attacked her, walked for we-don't-know-how-many-hundreds-of-miles to get to her house in London, AND manages to survives in that same house without any food whatsoever for weeks (months?) - neither proper food (infested with worms and stuff) nor human (deserted area, that's right).
And every time something happen, it's either because people are purely dumb or because it's a huge coincidence. Oh, right, I forgot about the coincidences.
Alright, here how it goes:

first, a man and a woman send their children outside the country to keep them safe

then, the man manages to escape a huge zombie attack and leaves his wife getting killed

he goes to the secure zone of London where he becomes THE caretaker in place and has an "all access" pass

the only children who arrive at the secure zone are the same children the man and the woman sent away (OMG I didn't expect that!)

the children manage to sneak out of the zone to go to their previous home

the wife managed to escape the zombies and is actually inside the house the children went to

and it goes on and on and on so I'll spare you the rest which is just as bad...
Of course, the first movie was pretty cool - and the first scene of the second one (intense, cool, actually well done) will lead you to believe that maybe all these bad comments are nonsense and it may be worth watching the whole thing. Don't be fooled. Once the dad escapes, just turn the movie off. You've seen the only cool moment of the film.