Film Title: Shaun of the Dead
Year: 2004
MPAA Rating: R
Length: 99 minutes
Film Genre: Comedy / Horror
Director: Edgar Wright
Producer: Tim Bevin, et. al.
Writers: Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
Players:
Simon Pegg as Shaun
Nick Frost as Ed
Kate Ashfield as Liz
Plot: An outbreak of the walking dead disease has struck
Acting: It’s British humor. The acting has to be bad. Actually, it is quite good, though the great majority of the cast is a horde of groaning, bloody masses of dead flesh.
Cinematography: Much of the camera work adds to the already funny screenplay.
Visual: Perfect mimicry of classic zombie movies. Scene change montages are funny.
Audio: Good. A fast-paced soundtrack compliments the action of the movie.
When I watched it last: Two days prior to review
What to watch for: Hilarious British antics, the awesome duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
What to watch out for: Language, copious amounts of alcohol, comedic gore
IMDB Rating: 8.0 out of 10
Roger Ebert Rating: 3 out of 4 stars; “a send-up of zombie movies, but in an unexpected way: Instead of focusing on the Undead and trying to get the laughs there, it treats the living characters as sitcom regulars whose conflicts and arguments keep getting interrupted by annoying flesh-eaters.”
The Cinema Standard Overall Score: 8.2 out of 10; Along with Hot Fuzz (Pegg and Frost's latest), Shaun of the Dead is one of the funniest comedies to come out in the past 5 years.
--Reviewed by Brady
