They're Coming to Get You, Barbara

Rating: 7/10 (14 February 2008)

I saw "Hot Fuzz," the other film from the same film-making team of Edgar Wright and the actor Simon Pegg, before I saw "Shaun of the Dead" and thought overall it was a stronger movie, but "Shaun" has much to recommend it in its own right.
Where "Hot Fuzz" parodies action buddy movies, "Shaun of the Dead" takes as its target movies like George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" series and its countless imitators. There's a lot of cheeky humour and grisly gore played for laughs, and the whole thing is thoroughly entertaining without ever quite feeling like a comedy classic.
Grade: A-