For Once, a "Fresh" Zombie Movie

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2013)

Back in 2004, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright gave us a zombie classic, Shaun of the Dead. It was a different pace than other recent zombie flicks (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later), as it was a comedy. Pegg, a well known British actor (Spaced, many British Television shows) and Wright, a writer director whose first big hit would be this.
And they deliver.
Shaun is a furniture salesmen who participates in the same boring schedule everyday. He has problems with his mother (Penelope Wilton) and his girlfriend (Kate Ashfield). He is thrust into the zombie apocalypse, and needs to band together with his best friend Ed (Nick Frost), Liz (his girlfriend), his mother, and his girlfriend's flat-mates in order to make it to their favourite place in the world, the Winchester pub, in hopes of waiting the whole thing off.
This is Pegg and Wright's first film together, and their script is very witty and humorous, but knows where it stands as a zombie film. It's a completely different take on the zombie apocalypse, showing that even if the entire world is falling apart, you can still drink and laugh to your heart's content.
The duo's first crack at a film together is astounding, and spawned the "Blood and Ice Cream" or "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy, which also contains Hot Fuzz and the upcoming film The World's End.
Shaun of the Dead is a truly wonderful film, giving great performances, laughs and zombie slaughtering throughout,and it shows us the meaning of friendship, family, and that you need to "remove the head or destroy the brain" in order to survive.
Everyone should experience this film at one time or another, I know I will be experiencing it again soon.
9/10