Shaun of the Dead

Title: Shaun of the Dead Type: Movie Age Group: Teens + Release Year: 2004 My Rating: 4.5/5 Shaun (Simon Pegg) lives a life that is less than super in any way. I mean, stuck with a roommate that does nothing but play videogames all day and being an appliance salesman doesn't exactly live up to much. He has to also deal with his ex-girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield), and his stepfather, Philip (Bill Nighy), whom he both has a shaky relationship with. When things can't get any duller or more problematic than it already is, Shaun discovers (a little late) that everyone has turned into zombies because of a virus! Devising a plan to save his mom and ex from the horror, Shaun sets out with roommate, Ed (Nick Frost), to seize a very zombified day with rofl moments and head-bashing action! Ah, zombie comedies. There are a few and rare that exist in the entertainment world (or maybe it's just me?). Shaun of the Dead definitely delivers the laughter and zombie goodness in...

Shaun is already a member of the walking dead, victim of intellectual cannibalism whose hopeless sum is the lowest common denominator: a young man whose potential is salted like peanuts and drowned in Guinness. He is stuck in the jaundice of adolescence, nearing middle age and still a failure; he sleepwalks through his dreary workday, the world around him like a thick haze of smoke clouding his aspirations. When his girlfriend Liz breaks up with him, his epiphany begins: “Get Liz back, visit Mum, straighten out life”…at least it’s a start. Director Edgar Wright has penned a fantastic script that is both parody and allegory: homage to Romero’s classic triptych and toying with zombie genre convention while also showing us our dull life of mind-numbing routine where the difference between the living and the walking dead is a very fine and decomposing line. Wright never explains the cause of Zed-Day though flippant newscasts almost reveal the secret,...

One of the best comedies of the decade and even more so, one of the best horror comedies of all time. I think we all know that it’s not an easy thing to do, make a horror comedy that is. The balance is tough to work – keeping the funny, funny and the horror, scary enough.Shaun of the Dead brought something so fresh to the Zombie genre as well as horror in general and Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are one of the best on screen comedic duos ever!

28 DAYS LATER revitalized the zombie genre without zombies. People forget that the there are no *zombies* on that movie but people affected by a disease.  Well, SHAWN OF THE DEAD took that cue and then turned it on its head by making fun of the zombie genre in ways that were too funny to not appreciate. It even (like any good comedy) pointed at and made fun of society in an intelligent way you have to be republican–er, I mean stupid (I kid!) to not get it.  It’s offspring: ZOMBIELAND isn’t as great, but damn close.