A sleeping cult classic

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2005)

Coming from sunny old England, it's rare to see a Brits sense of humour captured so well on the big screen. For many years all the English comedy market spilled out was a reel of Hugh Grant rom-coms but now suddenly a film that has cult classic written all over it. You could just imagine the meeting when Simon Pegg walked into the office and pitched his film idea, 'I want to create a Romantic Comedy, oh yeah and it contains Zombies', surely that meeting alone would have been funnier than any of the recent Hollywood comedies released. With the finest British comedians on display and a suttle comedy admits all the zombies and gore, this film somehow comes out as not only hilariously funny but also brilliantly clever. This film is the best thing to cross the Atlantic since the office hit the Americans shore. A well done to Simon Pegg and his team and I can't wait to see what they follow up with.