Gaz
10-28-2004, 07:58 AM
Great bloody fun.
Our Hero, Shaun, is already a bit of a zombie. He lumbers through life, doing the same old same old, barely conscious of the world around him. When the dead rise up to eat the living, Shaun does not even notice. That provides some truly hilarious scenes as the realization finally hits Shaun and his even more boneheaded friend Ed.
The humor comes from the characters, rather than “Scary Movie” type slapstick. Once the characters of Shaun and Ed are established, their reactions to the situation are not out of place, but are very funny.
In one scene [before Our Hero has a grasp on the situation], a zombie is trying to bite Shaun’s neck, but he thinks she is just a drunk chick hitting on him. Hilarious.
Be warned though, this is a bloody movie. Blood and gore and guts and veins in your teeth. In an homage to the original “Dawn of the Dead,” zombies tear the intestines out of a screaming man and eat them as he expires. Despite the humor, this is not a sweet, fuzzy movie. This is, despite the laughter, a movie where the disfigured and rotting dead rise up and bite big bloody chunks out of the living.
There is also some drama. People you come to care about die in awful ways. “Shaun of the Dead” handles these scenes well. The next moment, a bit of silliness hits. You are kept on that roller coaster until the end.
The directing is fairly straightforward, although there are some cute bits where brushing one’s teeth or spreading jelly on toast is given a quick-cut visual style with some abrupt sound effects. The emphasis on these mundane tasks is not carried on to the gruesome horror stuff. A nice touch, I thought.
This is not a BIG SCREEN movie. It would work just as well on DVD, if you want to wait for it. I have been looking forward to this one since the first previews, so off we went.
This one gets maximum Hootage. 5 Hoots. Irreverent, charming, absurd, gruesome and funny. And it has zombies! What more can a moviegoer ask?
For those interested in the opinion of a non Zombie Homer, Mrs. Gaz liked this one.
xoxo~
Gaz
Had a whopping good time.
Our Hero, Shaun, is already a bit of a zombie. He lumbers through life, doing the same old same old, barely conscious of the world around him. When the dead rise up to eat the living, Shaun does not even notice. That provides some truly hilarious scenes as the realization finally hits Shaun and his even more boneheaded friend Ed.
The humor comes from the characters, rather than “Scary Movie” type slapstick. Once the characters of Shaun and Ed are established, their reactions to the situation are not out of place, but are very funny.
In one scene [before Our Hero has a grasp on the situation], a zombie is trying to bite Shaun’s neck, but he thinks she is just a drunk chick hitting on him. Hilarious.
Be warned though, this is a bloody movie. Blood and gore and guts and veins in your teeth. In an homage to the original “Dawn of the Dead,” zombies tear the intestines out of a screaming man and eat them as he expires. Despite the humor, this is not a sweet, fuzzy movie. This is, despite the laughter, a movie where the disfigured and rotting dead rise up and bite big bloody chunks out of the living.
There is also some drama. People you come to care about die in awful ways. “Shaun of the Dead” handles these scenes well. The next moment, a bit of silliness hits. You are kept on that roller coaster until the end.
The directing is fairly straightforward, although there are some cute bits where brushing one’s teeth or spreading jelly on toast is given a quick-cut visual style with some abrupt sound effects. The emphasis on these mundane tasks is not carried on to the gruesome horror stuff. A nice touch, I thought.
This is not a BIG SCREEN movie. It would work just as well on DVD, if you want to wait for it. I have been looking forward to this one since the first previews, so off we went.
This one gets maximum Hootage. 5 Hoots. Irreverent, charming, absurd, gruesome and funny. And it has zombies! What more can a moviegoer ask?
For those interested in the opinion of a non Zombie Homer, Mrs. Gaz liked this one.
xoxo~
Gaz
Had a whopping good time.