but the living shouldn't bother.
It looks like this was supposed to be a likable send-up of zombie movies, with Bill Murray ambling around as the police chief in a small town ("A Real Nice Place"), with Adam Driver and Chloe Sevengy (sp? don't care) as his two officers. Tilda Swinton as usual plays a walking, talking WTF, and the script has her figuratively jumping the shark (no, not literally, and no spoilers here for you). Along with these four, the rest of the cast of A- & B-ish actors are shamefully underused.
The main trouble here is that the gags don't come fast enough, nor really hard enough. The self-referential banter about the theme song or "this won't end well" never quite fit. Furthermore, with the somber, nearly silent background tone it doesn't feel like the comedy that it's trying to be. So, what's left after that? Nothing worth spending your time watching. Maybe the best that can be said is that, at its best TDDD borders on "so bad it's good." But not quite.
1 star out of 5, just because the actors did what they could with this turkey. Also, the old Pontiac was kind of cool. Plus, having "Samuel Fuller" on one tombstone was a nice hat-tip.
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