'The Crazies' was a fun, well-rounded zombie movie.

Don't argue with me over what I consider a zombie because i will tell you to shut it. I would like to point out that i have never seen the original "The Crazies" and so to post this I admit to a bit of ignorance. I fully understand the ramifications of reviewing the remake of a movie i have never seen. That said, Breck Eisner's movie was fun as hell. From the very beginning its exciting and morbid, and it's opening sequence sets up a fundamental question of any good zombie movie: how do you deal with your friends and loved ones once they become a zombie? This movie nailed it, especially considering the relationship between the Deputy and the Sheriff. It also addressed another very important aspect to any good zombie movie: humans are your biggest enemy, although for this movie, it was a bit preachy. They chose to have an explanation for the outbreak which has been done both better and worse by other movies. Perhaps most importantly however, in true George Romero style, the ending left our survivors safe for the moment but with the world no where near safe and the doom of zombie apocalypse looming over them. Once you consider all the gruesome violence, the good make-up, not too unbelievable story and the important ingredients of proper undead mayhem, 'The Crazies' reveals itself to be just the sort of philosophical, frightening fun that one can expect from a solid Zombie movie.