pleasant, intelligently written zombie comedy

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2004)

Hard to describe this as a horror film because it's rarely horrifying, but it's easy to describe it as successful because it has a very polished script and is smartly directed.
In a modern London suburb, a regular "bloke", who is having girlfriend troubles, begins to notice that his neighbors and colleagues are walking funny and talking like they have dirt in their mouths.
After dispatching a zombie girl with an expertly swung cricket bat, our hero does what we expect him to do -- he heads for the pub. On the way he meets plenty of dead people and a few live folks, too (not that there's much difference here, which is the whole point).
The encounters with the deadheads are inventive and marginally bloody, but mostly they're fun in a Monty Python kind of way.
Tongues are planted firmly in cheeks in this refreshingly unpretentious outing and famous zombie movies -- Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD, in particular -- are referenced visually and musically.
Solid entertainment.