Their fast, their dead, their all sped up......

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2004)

O.K., I have to start by saying I am about as big a fan of the original Dawn of the Dead as you can be. I saw it in a drive-in with my parents when it came out and I was only 9 years old. I loved it then and the hundreds of times I saw it thereafter. When I heard that a remake was in the works I immediately got excited, but then thought about how awful the remake of Night of the Living Dead was and got worried. I had little to fear after all. Although there were a million differences from the original to the remake, I loved it anyway. Yes they story was changed. Yes the zombies were faster. Yes there were many more characters. SO WHAT????? Did it make the NOTLD remake great because they stuck to the original so closely? Hmmm, I thought you might see my point. This was more of a new take on a classic and as such it was a lot of fun. It had fast action, cool scares and I really had the same sense of despair and hopelessness that I did in the original. These things were scarier and MUCH harder to deal with and I loved it!!! My only issues are as follows: 1. Why oh why would anyone agree to leave the mall for a boat trip to nowhere? 2. How can one get so attached to a dog they just found that they are willing to go on a suicide mission to save him? 3. Why oh why would anyone leave that mall for a boat trip to nowhere??? Thesee points aside, this was a great re-imaging of a classic and does not deserve all the bashing it gets on here. How bad can a horror film be when it knocks The Passion out of first place at the box office. Needless to say, The Passion only had one resurrection while Dawn had millions so its more bang for the buck.