Shaun of the Dead
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Movie Reviews of Shaun of the Dead
Movie Review: Horror, comedy, death, destruction and beer.
Summary: 5 Stars
Shaun of the dead was the best movie i saw last year and for good reason.
The Plot-Shaun(simon pegg) is a slacker, he's lazy, uninspired, and again a slacker(you know something like you, yeah you who's reading this, hehehe i keed i keed) who has a failing relationship with his girlfriend.He also has a buddy named ED who he plays video games with and mixes records and listens to techno music with .But then weird things start to happen in London. News flashes across screens, people acting very wild, un-controlled, rabid, vile, demented. And you know what???Shaun doesn't notice a damn thing, it's take a zombie girl to be in his backyard who gets hit by a shovel for him to realize whats going on.
Shaun then has a dilemma at hand, does he stay home and play video games with ED or does he become a man, grab his crickit paddle and go across town and try to rescue his parents and friends from the zombie infested city?He chooses choice B and the fun begins.
Now i know what you're thinking........ your thinking i am such a great reviewer yeah i know, oh okay i know what you're thinking about this movie, that this is just another zombie spoof film..well partner your wrong, dead wrong now go in the corner you have a 5 minute timeout.Go i am serious!!!!!!!
okay well this is a smart comedy, some jokes you're gonna miss because some part of the comedy happens in the backround.
What is so good about this movie is this movie turns from a light hearted comedy to a full fledged horror film towards the end and you actually feel suspense and horror from a movie you thought was going to be a dumb spoof.
Yes my friend you must see this movie, it's an actual good movie from the U.K not just tasteless humour like ALI G.
(watch now the hatemail flow to my email account from U.K people).
The Negatives-yes even a great film like this has some negatives. Since this movie is british some phrases and dialouge can be rather hard to understand. But dont't worry it only occurs a few times during the movie, your film experience will not be ruined.
Pros
+Good humour
+great characters(except the stiff that looks like a grown harry potter)
+When the horror is on! the horror is on!
+yummmm internal organs fly everywhere, always a plus!
Cons
-hard to understand dialouge at times
Conclusion
I suggest you see this movie because THE OPINIONATED ONE SAID it's really good.
4.5 STARS ROUNDED UP TO 5!
The Opinionated One Has Spoken
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Movie Review: Shaun of the Dead (4.5 stars)
Summary: 5 Stars
As ridiculous as it sounds, the description on the cover of the DVD ("A romantic comedy. With zombies.") is completely true. Shaun of the Dead, of course being a pun on one of Romero's zombie flicks Dawn of the Dead, starts out with a glimpse into a very bad day in Shaun's (Simon Pegg) life: Shaun's flatmate Pete badgers him about his other flatmate and best friend for life Ed (Nick Frost) who is an unemployed slob, his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) dumps him for being unreliable, and his teenage subordinates at his dead-end job make him feel increasingly old and obsolete. At least it's not the end of the world, right? The next day, Shaun humorously goes about his routine in the exact same way, not taking care to notice the zombie infestation that occured literally overnight until Ed points out a strange girl in the garden. With the truth suddenly dawning on them, Shaun and Ed head out to rescue Liz and her flatmates along with Shaun's mother and stepfather. What seemed like a perfect plan falls victim to increasingly more complicated hitches as the movie goes on until it's no longer a spoof on the zombie genre but a very real, emotionally charged drama set inside the events of a zombie outbreak. Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright continue their series of excellent ideas from their hilarious sitcom Spaced with some of the best screenwriting and directing in years. Shaun of the Dead is every pop culture fanboy's dream: the script is filled to the brim with zombie references from sources as obvious as Night of the Living Dead to the obscure videogame Zombies Ate My Neighbors, not to mention a million other homages to just about every other form of mass media (for example, the debate around The Stone Roses' widely criticized Second Coming in comparison to their debut). Not only does Shaun of the Dead reference those numerous outside sources but it is self-referential as well, the whole second day of the movie being an almost word-for-word recurrence of the first with the dialogue providing a hilarious irony that takes several viewings of the film to fully appreciate. To make things better, the cast's comic timing is superb to the point of almost being able to work telepathically with each other and Edgar Wright's use of camera angles and distinct images not only pays respects to the classics that he so reveres but also demonstrates his enormous talent in creating films with a style all his own. Shaun of the Dead is easily the most rewarding movie of its kind for at least a decade and one can only hope that the excellent output from the geniuses behind it will continue long into the 21st century.Movie Review: Zombies and Love
Summary: 5 Stars
The blurb on the front of the DVD case says all you need to know. "A smash hit romantic comedy, with zombies." Really, what more do you need to hear.
Many people mistakenly think this is a spoof movie or a parody of Dawn of the Dead, the remake of which came out unfortunatally close to the release of Shaun (I think there's even a Shaun trailer on the Dawn DVD) and the names are similar, but this is not the case. Shaun of the Dead is a great zombie movie in its own right and nails both the horror and the comedy.
The comedy in the film is so slick you may have to watch multiple times to catch it all. It is that almost dry but witty British humor that when done right can be ten times as funny as the loud in your face humor we get in the states. You need to listen to all the quips from Shaun's loser buddy Ed (who has an excellen loser gap cut into his hair. Just something you have to notice to realize how funny that is) pay attention to all the back ground action (was that couple making out or was she just eating his neck?) and watch closly to get all the cool little jokes. Don't worry there are still some nice fall down humor and inappropriate words to giggle at.
You can see the love of the zombie films these film makers have and the layers they use to tell their story is amazing. In a pair of inventive scenes we see Shuan walking down the street like a zombie himself to the store not noticing the world around him because he just does not care. Later we see him on the same walk, this time not noticing anything because he's thinking about sorting his life out and not noticing that a zombie invasion is begining around him (another great background scene by the way). Also inventive is the use of foreshadowing. Notice when Ed says they should drink all day tomorrow starting with a bloody mary and ending up at the pub that this is what happens... kind of. Notice the name tag of the first zombie they bloody up and where they end up at the end of the day. Or there is the more obvious, "The next time I see him he's dead," comment from Ed.
There's a whole slew of this kind of thing along with the fact its a great comedy and horror (don't believe me? Well don't be eating spaghetti near the end of the film is all I have to say) and I could go on way longer than needed. Check it out. If you like intelligent comedies or zombies or hey, there's a romance plot in there too, then you'll love this.
Movie Review: A hilarious and bloody riot!
Summary: 5 Stars
Shaun is a typical English employee who lives with two roommates which one is a worker and one is a video game playing fat slacker, he has problems with both working and with his girlfriend. After hanging out in the local pub, strange things start happening around him then the next morning, him and his friend discover on the TV news that a plague have turned people into slow-moving creatures that feed on human flesh, they soon escape with some surviors including his girlfriend and mom in a local pub for shelter then battle the undead.
A hilarious, entertaining and different zombie movie all the way from the UK that parodies George Romero's zombie trilogy and other movies of it's genre especially Lucio Fulci movies. What also works for this movie is social satire with dark humor, gore abound, some Goblin music from the original "Dawn of the Dead" and the scene where Shaun is struggling with a zombie then the fat slob roommate takes a picture of them was hilarious.
The DVD has great extras like featurettes, bloopers, Trailers, Deleted scenes, audio commentaries, flawless picture & flawless sound and more.
This movie and DVD is a definite keeper for every zombie and horror fan's library, the movie itself is one of the most refreshing zombie movies in years and one of the best movies of the year destined to be a cult favorite.
Also recommended: " Re-Animator", " From Dusk Till Dawn", "Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 and 2004)", " Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 and 1990)", " Day of the Dead", " Evil Dead 2", " Lifeforce", " The Stuff", " Hell of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. Night of the Zombies, Virus, Zombie Creeping Flesh)", " Demons", " Freddy Vs. Jason", " Kill Bill Vol. 1", " Office Space", "Fight Club", " Battle Royale", " 28 Days Later", " The Return of the Living Dead", " Nightmare City ( a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead)", " Evil Dead", " Bride of Re-Animator", " Resident Evil 1 & Apocalypse", " Return of the Living Dead part II", "Return of the Living Dead 3", " Cannibal Apocalypse", " Vampire Hunter D", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie"," Dead Heat ( 1988)", " Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror", " Bio-Zombie", "Zombi 2", " House By The Cemetery", "City of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. The Gates of Hell)", " Scream", "Fright Night", " The Beyond", " American Beauty", " Erotic Nights of the Living Dead", " The Lost Boys", "An American Werewolf in London", " Hellgate", " House of the Dead" and " Hellgate".
Movie Review: the best kind of youthful excess
Summary: 5 Stars
Horror films, and particularly the zombie movie, are often the site of young filmmakers first chance to make a 'real' movie. Following in this tradition, Pegg, Wright, et al. have produced a film so lovingly packed with references to their heroes (who themselves often started with allusion laden genre films) that it is impossible not to get swept up in the enthusiasm.
This reveling in the history of genre films themselves is one sort of youthful excess, a thankful antidote to the transgressive, angry Beavis and Butthead style excess that characterized first-time director Zack Snyder's heartless "Dawn of the Dead Remake." Pegg and Wright love talking about movies the way great novelists love talking about books and it shows throughout "Shaun."
That said, the scripting is so deft that it's hard to say once and for all if this is a zombie movie with a romantic comedy glued on top, or a romantic comedy with Zombies stapled on. Part of this is because the film is as much about London as it is about scares. The drab, listless lifestyles of early thirty-something Londoners is so much a part of the story that it can be enjoyed as much as a movie about a place and time (England in the dreary nineties) as about a group of characters (the standard rom-com archetypes: hapless boyfriend, impatient girlfriend, obnoxious best friend, ancillary 'married couple', etc.). That the film can be enjoyed by 'blokes' and their girlfriends equally and for completely different reasons tells of just how lucky fans of genre films are to be visited by this crew, even if it's just this once.
The performances are all stellar. There is not a line delivered by Bill Nighy or Dylan Moran that is not dripping with the sort of drollery usually reserved for Mankiewicz dialog. Pegg displays the most lovable sort of spastic-faced English comic delivery and Nick Frost is the most adorable galut I've seen on film in a long time. Even the extras and one-line performers are pitch perfect, credit casting or directing or both.
The soundtrack is an amazing array of remixes touching on Zombie film lore, eighties electro notalgia, video game scores, and indy consciousness.
This is as much of a must see for fans of horror films as Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu Hustle" is for fans of marital arts movies, or as "Imitation of Life" is for fans of melodrama. It's so good, in fact, that by the end it becomes a homage to itself.