When Romero dies he'll turn over in his grave on this one

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2004)

The Mrs. and I watched the new Dawn of the Dead and it ticked us both off, for various reasons. Many had said that it was a good remake so I was very optimistic. But I dunno... it just seems like I was cheated, as if they made a modern-day generic zombie movie and put it in the mall just so they could say it was Dawn of the Dead.
My biggest beef is that in the original all of the survivors' actions are believable. "Hey, we're in this mall, it's safe, let's stay here a loooong time." or "We're tough bikers who have fun hacking zombies to pieces." Simple yet believable.
In the remake they constantly do stupid things. Like the lights go out one night. "Oooo! We can't spend one night in the dark even though we're safe!
Let's make a dangerous trip to the generators just so the audience gets a jolt." or "My husband turned into a zombie three days ago but I've never mourned over him and now I've fallen in love with a Best Buy TV salesman." And don't get me started on the whole "Get the dog" gimmick (never seen THAT before). As if it's any indication, we were both distracted by the funny sentences in our daughter's kindergarten reading book.