Zombies in the movie theater

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2004)

SPOILERS AHEAD
The "Dawn of the Dead" remake did not scare me in the slightest. For me, blood is just blood, and this amount of splatter desensitizes me after awhile.
One thing I certainly do not want to see ever again is someone shoot a baby. Even a zombie baby. It was absolutely despicable and breathtaking in its tastelessness and I have a high threshold for tastelessness. Hey, guys, ever hear of smothering the baby or humanely putting her to death? In fact, why kill her at all? Despite her appearance, she's still a five-minute-old baby who was apparently making no move to bite or infect anyone. She can't walk and doesn't have any teeth. What's she going to do, crawl across the floor at a terrifying speed, break down doors with her impressive newborn baby strength and kill everyone?
As a matter of fact, why was I even subjected to that extremely juvenile premise, which I saw coming miles away anyway? It served no purpose other than for the director to say, "Hey, we even killed a baby. How edgy and willing to shatter taboos we are!
Doesn't it make you think?"
Of course, the dog survived, because they always do. The baby died but they couldn't kill the dog, because that would just be sick and cruel and people would be in an uproar. Killing a dog would definitely be beyond the pale. Killing a stillborn baby, on the other> hand ...
This movie made me think about nothing. Sure, the extremely trite theme was how consumers can be zombies. Yawn. I already knew that reading the 19 million reviews of the original and this remake established the theme again within the first 10 minutes and then did absolutely nothing to add to the premise. Worse, the movie clumsily shifted tones from horror to comedy.
If this director wanted to explore the idea of mindless consumers, he should have set "Dawn of the Dead" in a movie theater, as zombies there eagerly swallow this insipid tripe.