Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at Dec 17 8:15

Shaun: Do you want anything from the shop? Ed: Cornetto. A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living. Simon Pegg: Shaun ''Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?'' The great British sit-com has undergone something of a revival in recent years. Galvanized by the new wave of smart, sassy imports from the US, the Brits have girded their loins and produced a spate of quality comedies that have banished memories of the bland, identity dross of the late eighties and early nineties. Shaun of the Dead is the continuation of what went before; of a similar format yet in a completely new setting, with new ...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 6 months, 3 weeks ago at Dec 13 12:37

Everything I had hoped from Wright, Pegg and Frost. They clearly LOVE horror movies, but with this they took the zombies into our lives. Theres so much truth in this movie... get to the pub. Simple. True. FUNNY!

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Mar 2 14:39

Shaun of the Dead was a funny movie but it cannot beat Hot Fuzz. If Resident Evil was like this then that would be awesome.
The whole plot of the story is Shaun played by Simon Pegg and his best friend Ed played by Nick Frost. Shawn girlfriend Liz has dumped him. Now Shawn and Ed find zombies in there back garden at there home and now it's up to a group of people to save themselves and get away from the zombies.
The movie is worth checking out as Simon Pegg and Nick Frost together they offer a good amount of laughs in the movie.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Dec 29 15:11

This movie has the greatest re-watch rate of any film I have ever known. At University, my friend and I watched it 5 times in one day (different commentaries on and fun facts too!) and still laughed and marvelled at this great British movie.

Shaun lives a humdrum life, not going anywhere and his love life is on the rocks. It is not until some Zombies show up out of the blue that his existence starts to have proper meaning.

Ed was also a fantastic character. His blatant ignorance and child-like innocence are perfectly portrayed by Nick Frost.

If you like the Dawn of the Dead movies or films littered with intertextuality, this is for you!

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago at Nov 26 2:40

'A romantic comedy ..with Zombies' That says it all, obviously the romance part of it doesn't completely take over the film, but this could be classified with basically any genre. Comedy is obviously the stand out, but hey you could fit in romance, horror or even drama into it. It's kind of funny in that way, hopefully it should satisfy everyone. It is a brilliant take-off of 'Dawn of the Dead', which by the way I have never actually seen myself. It still has the blood and zombies, but maybe it manages to fit in some other great stuff that probably was nothing like 'Dawn of the Dead'. Just the little stuff makes you laugh the most, stuff maybe not everyone notices but it's still hilarious. I watched this after 'Hot Fuzz', it's not as if the two come together but there are small thing...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Apr 30 5:56

I sat down and watched this movie for a second time this past weekend, and I could watch this movie over and over again. It is a great take-off on George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead", with a great story that is both hilarious and a bit digusting at times.

I was quite pleased with this movie overall---it is a rare movie these days that can grab...and hold...my complete attention for more than a few minutes at a time.

This one will be added to my favourites list for sure.

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Apr 29 20:00

Ok, so I'll admit this was not a movie I would've chosen to watch on my own, my boyfriend kept insisting we watch it and so finally I caved, and guess what, I liked it. Guess I should listen to him more often.

It was funny and the love story (yeah, a love story, I didn't believe my boyfriend when he said that either. I thought he was just trying to play into the whole "girls will watch anything with a romantic storyline" stereotype), was sweet. Plus, its british, how can you go wrong with british humour and zombies?

Rating : 7/10