Dead Snow is an exercise in frustration. Where films like Shaun of the Dead and Dead Alive created likeable and relatively believable characters, Dead Snow is content with flat characters, cut from a second-rate slasher. The story goes nowhere and by the end it feels like 90 minutes of padding. The tone of the movie was all over the board, one moment they want to be tragic and serious, and the very next they want to be WaCkY and goofy.
Fanboy Syndrome was also in full effect, much like Cabin Fever. Entire scenes were constructed for no other reason than to pay homage to other, better zombie movies.
One piss-poor actor had a stupid grin on his face for the entire time, too.