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It’s been a while since I saw the first movie and though I remembered I liked it, I couldn’t remember the details. That wasn’t a problem, though, as film stands on its own. It’s basically a zombie movie, except instead of dead people coming to life it’s regular people being turned into raging maniacs by a dangerous virus. In this film it is 28 weeks after the first and Britain, which had been evacuated, is being carefully repopulated as all the infected have died off and it is considered safe to return. Our focus is one particular family: the boy and daughter were overseas when the virus hit, but return to find out that their mother was infected and only their father is left. Of course you can’t watch this without the dreadful feeling that things are going to go bad, really bad, and of course they do, as the virus reinfects and sweeps through the surviving population in a devastating and terrifying manner. It’s pretty exciting and plenty horrifying. It’s grim and dark and doesn’t show much hope, but that’s in line with the first film. Recommended it you’re into this sort of thing.

I liked the first and the second was good, if a bit forced. This one is not as good as the first but better than the second. The story is slender — the King dies and Shrek’s off to find the heir while former foe Prince Charming is plotting to take over the throne. Most of the humor is familiar and there’s nothing particularly clever, but there are a handful of laugh-out-loud moments. It’s mostly just harmless fun, nicely entertaining without straining your brain.