An amazing movie, rife with humor, emotion, and living dead.

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2005)

Although some may see this movie as silly and stupid, it is a comic great, destined to be a cult classic. There's nothing better than a cult classic, right? Well, this movie has many jokes that have to be thought about to seem funny. Although Ed's (Shaun's friend) fart is well timed and a quite funny fart joke in the first place, you have to realize that he cut the cheese in the middle of a zombie invasion, when death is practically imminent. Ed's inconsiderance for this fact is really what makes it flat out hilarious.
One of the better jokes that kind of runs throughout the entire movie is that no one knows why it happened, and in the end, Shaun's girlfriend changes the channel on the TV right as you are about to find out. That's funny, too.
Sean Pegg is a very good actor in this film, because he captures the little things in every day life. The way he twitches his fingers when he's talking to his girlfriend about breaking up, the way he forces you to believe that his girlfriend still likes himself, just like he forces his own self to believe that fact, and his dazed look on his face while he's showing TV channels to his customers are all very well done. He has done work extending to HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers (look that up) and worked on Spaced, in case you already didn't know that.
The end of the movie loses it's humor as Shaun is forced to make some very difficult decisions regarding his mother's life, and leaving his best friend behind. But, the humor gets injected back into the movie in little increments like the point where Shaun contemplates how he would kill himself and his girlfriend.
All in all, this is my 2nd favorite movie of all time, topped only by Pulp Fiction. I know that may seem like a stretch, but for me, this is the perfect movie.