Not so much a remake more a new Dawn - SPOILERS

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2004)

Just been to see a preview showing of the Dawn of the Dead 2004. First I should state that I love Romero's original trilogy although Day was my favourite. If nothing else I hope that as many people will go and see this so that George can get the funding for Dead Reckoning / Twilight / Land of the Dead (whatever it's going to be called).
***SPOILERS***
So onto the film, nice to see cameos by Tom "shoot them in the head" Savini and Ken "when hell is full" Foree. At the start a good future portent, Ana, a nurse is discussing a patient who was bitten in a bar brawl but is now in intensive care "from a bite!" We see Middle American Suburban perfection but in the morning of the next day things change. To cut a long story short Ana's neighbourhood has become infected and people have become super charged zombies. The little girl next door bites Ana's husband and he try's to bite her, it's all done in the goriest possible taste. Ana escapes and meets up with others who are alive (including Andre and his pregnant wife Luda we'll come to them later). They all go to a mall and have a run in with a couple of zombies who are quickly dispatched. Then they meet the mall security guards and an uneasy alliance develops. Several more survivors join however a couple of them have been infected, become zombies and are killed. Some novel ideas, a dog appears and is used to get food to another survivor, Andy, in a building near by, seems zombies don't frequent Korean restaurants. Luda, the pregnant woman was infected after a bite and hidden from the rest of the group by Andre, becomes zombified, but the coolest part is the baby, she gives birth to a zombie! The group decide to leave the mall and head to a marina get a boat and sail off to somewhere less inhabited. In best A-Team style they beef up a couple mini buses and head out. Lots of zombies (I mean lots) get squashed, shot, chainsawed and blown up. One bus crashes and only a handful make it to the boat. Happy ending, well if you stay for the credits NO!
Overall I really enjoyed the film, quick zombies work for me, could have done with more gore but the deaths were good especially Andy's, nice to see an unhappy ending as well. Definitely a re-viewing on the cards.
Someone please give George some money instead of making zombie films based on video games they suck!!!