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After seeing just how far Marc Forster's zombie action flick World Ward Z strayed from its source material as written by Max Brooks, the most nit-picky of Harry Potter fans should be thanking their lucky stars that their beloved franchise followed J.K. Rowling's books as closely as they did. World War Z is the latest cinematic example of a studio buying up an intellectual property and then discarding everything about it but the name recognition so they can do whatever they want with it. In this case, "whatever they want" was a generic zombie story with no connection to the original story beyond the fact that it includes a worldwide zombie outbreak. So what is World War Z if not the accounts of a zombie apocalypse from varied perspectives? It's Brad Pitt leading a cast of otherwise expendable characters in an entertaining ride, but with a flimsy story »
- Lex Walker
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