Deadbeat dad Juan Alexis Diaz de Villegas) has survived the Castro regime, so he remains remarkably unfazed when the zombie apocalypse hits Havana.
The postmodern, post-Shaun zomcom roadshow totters unsteadily but flamboyantly in Cuban heels, its jaunty tone bristling uneasily with often unlikeable heroes.
But director Alejandro BruguĆ©s dispatches the undead with cartoonish glee (slingshots!) and resurrects the genreās political subtexts with jibes at a country where zombies are dismissed as “dissidents” and public transport continues to run, no matter what.