A Romantic Comdey, with Zombies

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2008)

Shaun of the Dead is a excellent comedy film, showing that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are two of the best comedy talents to come out of Britain in recent years.
Shaun of the Dead is a movie that works on a number of levels. It is a parody of the zombie films made by George A. Romero and unlike films like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, they do it out of a love of the films and don't throw in everything that was mildly popular at the time. Romero liked the film so much he even gave Pegg and Wright a cameo in Land of the Dead. Shaun of the Dead also works because it is well written, with get jokes and dialogue, and good acting from Pegg and Nick Frost. It has a fun plot and shows the problems of the Romero films, such as the zombie moving slowly and uses these problems. It has other jokes besides from making fun of the zombie and horror genre which helps the film a lot and has issues such as relationships between partners and friends.
The story of the film was Shaun (Pegg), is man in his late twenties and has little to show for it. He works at an electronics store in North London, he lives in a house with his best friends from university and primacy school and both of them don't get along. Shaun was also struggling with his relationship with his girlfriend and had a strain relationship with his step-father (the brilliant Bill Nighy) and he spend most of his free time at the Winchester pub and playing Playstation games. To top things off the dead are raising from their graves and starting to roam London, but no-one seems to notice. Liz (Kate Ashfield) broke with Shaun near the beginning of the film and he tries to get up together with her. As the zombie start to become more numerous and danger more inevitable Shaun sees it as the perfect opportunity to get back in Liz's good books and planned to save her and his mum and go to the Winchester until the situation had blown over. However, he plan unravels as he tried to save them.
The film is deliciously violence. Fans of modern British comedy such as Spaced and the Office will find a lot of to like about it. They are also good cameos from Coldplay and Trisha and on the DVD expands of these on the extras. Shaun of the Dead is worthy of multiple viewers and is a great film.