"Zombieland" *** (out of four): The undead live on in this broad, crowd-pleasing - and gleefully gory - comedy about the inevitable "zombie apocalypse".

If you're looking for a "zombie comedy", you're not going to do much better than 2004's "Shaun of the Dead", Edgar Wright's riotously funny parody of the walking-dead genre. So it was with some trepidation that I approached "Zombieland", another comic tromp across the same apocalyptic territory. But "Zombieland" isn't some greedy attempt to reanimate "Shaun's" corpse (or profits). No, unlike the rampant, brain-hungry beasties that infest the film's streets, "Zombieland" has a mind of its own. In fact, if you consider "Shaun of the Dead" a zombie parody, then "Zombieland" may be the first true zombie comedy.

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