Shaun of the Dead
Directed by:
Edgar WrightCinematography:
David M. DunlapCast:
Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Jessica Hynes, Penelope Wilton, Martin Freeman (more)VOD (5)
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Life is going nowhere for Shaun. He spends his life in his local pub, The Winchester, with his best mate Ed, has issues with his Mum and neglects his girlfriend Liz. When Liz dumps him, Shaun finally decides to get his life in order. He must win back the heart of his girlfriend, repair his relationship with his mum and face up to the responsibilities of adulthood. Unfortunately, the dead are returning to life and attempting to eat the living. For the newly inspired Shaun, this is just another obstacle. In the face of a full scale zombie epidemic, armed with a cricket bat and spade, Shaun sets out with Ed in tow, to rescue his mum and grudgingly his step-dad, his girlfriend and even more grudgingly her friends David and Dianne and take them to the safest most secure place he knows, The Winchester. (Universal Pictures UK)
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A playful romp, humorously edited to the rhythm of rock burners. The pacing is great and the characters are instantly endearing, the survival part is not that interesting, but there are still a lot of hilarious situational jokes and if nothing else, at least I sympathized with the heroes who ran to their favourite pub to hide from the zombie apocalypse. I like the fact that the film manages to stand on its own two feet and doesn't just reproduce the established tropes of zombie horror, even if it is paradoxically detrimental at times.
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A parody that didn't work out. It doesn't offend, discourage, but it doesn't make you laugh either. Just a couple of jokes, a few references, and the rest of the running time is just a tired beating, which rather plagiarizes than mocks zombies over time. And this problematic genre offers us hundreds of subjects for jokes.
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A romantic comedy... With zombies! Despite getting slower and less funny from half way through, before that it is so full of great scenes and snappy lines that you just can’t help enjoying yourself. The gang that created the Britcom Spaced doesn’t let themselves down even in this feature-length movie. Overall, any weaker moments during the movie are made up for by the final study into what happens to the average Joe zombie once the troubles are over... The poor dear.
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A zombie comedy with British English and pleasantly corrupt morals – the two main protagonists are easy-going slackers and they’re cool. The actors, including Kate Ashfield, are well cast and the film’s brisk beginning is very promising, but the screenplay gradually runs out of ideas and merely flounders helplessly, ripping off what it can (I repeat ripping off, not parodying – there is a difference). This film actually doesn’t even have a plot. Rather, it attempts to be just a funny situational comedy, in which the important thing isn’t WHAT happens, but HOW it happens in a space of a few square meters. With the exception of the aforementioned beginning, I was bored most of the time and surprised by the screenwriter’s limited imagination.
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An unfunny, unimaginative and somewhat schizophrenic mix of comedy, parody and sometimes unexpectedly serious drama (the scene with the killing of the mother). The screenwriter didn't eat much funny porridge, so most of the scenes that look humorous or are "set up" for a funny punchline fizzle out. After that, even the superbly typecast actors and the fine looking zombies can't save the final impression. What I did like was the great ending and the creators' reference to the godfather of gore, Lucio Fulci, naming a pub after him.
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