Dead and Deader follows the story of a special forces soldier, Lt. Bobby Quinn, (Dean Cain) whose team was ambushed by zombies in Cambodia while raiding some kind of laboratory in the jungle. The whole team is killed by a grenade of a suicidal lab technician. Lt. Quinn wakes up just in time to stop the first cut of his own autopsy. He soon discovers that he has a psychic link to the rest of his team and that the rest of his team didn’t fair as well in the after life as he did. He was able to cut out the evil Cambodian scorpion that brought him back to life before it could turn him into a flesh-eating zombie. The remains of his team have been scattered across the nation for burials at home. But before they reach their final destination they are re-animating and starting a zombie outbreak. It’s up to Lt. Quinn and his friend Judson to locate and destroy the rest of his team before the zombie outbreak gets out of hand.

I didn’t know that this movie was supposed to be a comedy until I watched the special features’ “Making of” featurette. It was peppered with bad jokes and goofiness that really didn’t come off as funny, but rather sad.

A few things actually pissed me off about this movie:
-When Lt. Quinn wakes up as a doctor is about to cut him open for autopsy, the reaction he gets by returning from the dead is completely unreal. Personally, I think that I would shit my pants if a corpse came to life in front of me, then I’d probably wonder how such a blunder could have been made or question whether it was a blunder or a super natural act, but this doctor had an attitude more like he should have seen it coming.
-Lt. Quinn and Susan Ward’s character, Holly, about how great Dawn Of The Dead was, how rich in meaning it was and how the remake “had none of that” and was a travesty of cinema. I find it ironic that this shit movie brings into question the quality of a much better film while, adding absolutely nothing to the zombie genre or cinema at all. It reminds me of the fat bar-stool fixture going on and on about how shitty the professional athletes that he’s watching on TV are performing.
-Lt. Quinn and Holly go on and on with all these pop culture references, but neither one of them are convincing as pop culture nerds….maybe Dean Cain.

All in all, Dead and Deader had an ample budget, a good FX team and did nothing good with it. I expected more and got way less.

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