Oh George, George, George. How we love you. How we flinch when we see movies like this. Even if we could forget the total nonsense of the title (can you say whaaaaa?) and the complete silliness of the premise, the idea of an island belonging to two families feuding over the argument of whether zombies are really dead or not might make a good joke, but not a movie of an hour and a half.
Former Sergeant "Nicotine" Crockett (who has the distinction with his three fellow deserters of being the only 'carry over' characters in a Romero film, having a brief appearance in 'Diary Of The Dead' which I'll post when I have the strength) is trying to find a place to go to get away from, well, the dead. He hears of a place where there is supposedly no infection off the coast of Deleware called Plum Island. Problem is, the O'Flynns and Muldoons, the two feuding families, are making zombies of each other over whether the dead are only sick and need to be kept in chains until a cure is found. Or until they learn to eat something other than human flesh.
If this sounds really thin, you're getting pretty savvy at zombie movie lore grasshopper. It IS thin, and George tries hard to come up with original ideas for them, he really does, but this just isn't one of them.
To save you the trouble, the families pretty much kill each other off, making it an island of zombies and the weary deserters (down to two) leave in search of... other sequels probably, I don't know. I kind of hope not.
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