Shaun of the who?

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2007)

This film is spectacularly amusing. If you don't think so it is highly possible that you are, in fact, dead. Sorry if that's bad news but really, if you didn't laugh at this genius piece of film-making you've not much to live for anyway. All involved deserve some sort of gold star. Churlish gripe: it starts a bit slow. It may well be character building and set up the gags that come later, but it does drag the film down a mark or two. But when it gets going the laughs come thicker than Nick Frost's dumb country policeman (sorry, police officer) and faster than Simon Pegg's supercop's draw. The ensemble cast are wonderful, with Timothy Dalton rightly being singled out, the surprise gore and violence is effective and shocking, the direction and acting are spot on, and, well, any film that has an homage to Point Break surely must be watched and then watched again. Ace!