Great,British comedy!

Rating: 9/10 (19 February 2012)

What a film. Truly one of the funniest British comedies ever made certainly the best rom-com-zom I have ever seen. There are many reasons why it is worth a watch. One is the broad range of humour as it combines witty intelligent humour with simple slapstick comedy to make a wide spectrum of humour also meaning it is harder to get bored or find the humour less powerful. Director Edgar wright stylistically gives us a false sense of security as well as the humour. Surprisingly whilst it is a comedy and one of my favourite funny films off all time and some moments of the film are daft it is more profound than at first glance. The power struggles within protagonist Shaun's life are underrated and it is all about him. Mainly the relationship with him and his girlfriend Liz showed how he struggled in everyday life to cope with keeping her romantically interested with the pressure of his kind of friend David. The relationship between him and David shows that he is a decent character, as they both wrestle psychologically for Liz even though David is in a relationship with Dianne. Whilst the disaster of the zombie outbreak causes his David's character to surface in a negative and he becomes weaker and more resentful Shaun's character emerges in a more positive way as he steps up to become the leader and hero of his gang. The relationship which put most strain on the Shaun was his with Ed as well as Pete. Shaun struggles to defend Ed who is almost blind to what Shaun has done for him, which leads to Shaun doubting his own friendship with Ed when Pete asks aggressively about why they are so close as friends. But the funniest relationship of the film which gave the film a distinct sense of character was the hilarious relationship between Ed and Shaun's mother Barbara there was a tentative nature from Ed showing his child like mentality and there was something endearing about it as well as it being funny and because she is so funny. Barbara is the embodiment of the typical British mother so concerned about everyone else as she "doesn't want to cause a fuss"; in a stereotypically British way she offers a different character ark to the usual characters in a zombie film someone so oblivious to what is going on. Although the lack of response from anyone is also funny, particularly the scene when Shaun goes down to his local shop and is completely oblivious to the carnage around him and in a typically London argent way goes about his business. Edgar Wright's sense of direction can easily be forgotten but the way he plays around with our expectations of this genre by using mise-en-scene and sound to make us both scared and make us laugh. The media are cleverly employed to spell out to Shaun and Ed and add their own brand of strange humour and the montage bit it is a clever part of the film to address the zombie issue. Overall it lacks significant development in plot as well as enough technical features to be considered an absolute classic but still it is a pioneering film which brings a unique and quirky brand of humour. With intertextual references to The Deer Hunter, Reservoir Dogs and the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers add extra humour to this awesome film and should be watched by all fans of film.