The Funniest Zombie Comedy Ever!!!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2011)

Director Edgar Wright's romantic splatter comedy "Shaun of the Dead" qualifies as the funniest zombie movie ever made. This hilarious apocalyptic epic follows the antics of Foree Electric salesman Shaun (Simon Pegg of "Hot Fuzz") his girlfriend Liz, ((Kate Ashfield), his best mate Ed (Nick Frost of "Paul") along with their assorted friends, and Shaun's parents as they struggle to survive in an England overrun by zombies. The action takes place in one neighborhood and doesn't last for more than a week.
The first twenty minutes sets up everything as our heroes remain blissfully ignorant about the enormity of the events occurring around them. Shaun and his girlfriend Liz have just broken up because he cannot seem to take her out anywhere without them ending up in a tavern called the Winchester. She hates the Winchester because Shaun takes her there all the time, and she wants variety in her life. When Shaun reminds that he took Liz to Greece, she points out that Greece was where they met! When the zombies finally invade the apartment that Shaun and Ed share with their mate Pete, our heroes have nowhere else to go but out. The first zombie who barges in is a one-armed fellow in a wedding tuxedo and he manages to effect entry because Shaun has forgotten for the last time to shut the door to their apartment. Afterward, they discover another zombie in their backyard; it's a girl named Mary and Nick shoves her so that she falls down on a pipe and impales herself. Naturally, Shaun's mother Barbara phones and informs him that his father Philip (Bill Nighy of "Underworld") isn't feeling well.
Shaun and Ed fight their way out of the apartment, appropriate Pete's car, and careen off with careen off with Ed at the wheel to Barbara's place, knocking down any zombie unfortunate enough to cross the path of their car. Initially, Shaun and Ed have it all planned out. In Shaun's imagination, they kill Philip and rescue his mom, and wind up back in Shaun's apartment with our hero drinking from a white mug with the word Cool on it. When they realize that they cannot return to their blood-splattered apartment, they end up at the Winchester Tavern. Things don't work out as they had expected. They wind up packing Mum and Philip into Philip's Mercedes. During this fateful drive, Philip reminds Shaun that he met him when Shaun was 12. Nick races over to Liz's apartment where Shaun persuades his ex-girlfriend along with David (Dylan Moran) and Dianne (Lucy Davis)to accompany Ed and his relatives to the Winchester. When they rush out to the Jaguar, David is wielding an umbrella while Shaun deploys a cricket bat.
Our heroes have to abandon their car at one point and hike through twenty backyards. When they come to within sight of the the Winchester Tavern, Shaun warns them that the zombies have the establishment surrounded and besieged. Our heroes impersonate zombies so they can get through the crowd of walkers and inside the Winchester. Eventually, Shaun brandishes the rifle, but the zombies pour into the pub, and the chances of the protagonists surviving is considerably remote.
Half of the hilarity about "Shaun of the Dead" is the way that Wright stages the actions and edits it together for maximum comic impact. Simon Pegg is frantically funny as Shaun and Nick Frost adds to the laughs, especially at the end. Despite the obviously humorous subject matter, Wright has not balked at incorporating the splatter effects of most grade Z zombie flicks. Mind you, they emphasize the horrible spectacle of death in all the action scenes when the zombie tear into their victims with their teeth and at one point, Wright pays tribute to George Romero's "Day of the Dead" as one fellow has his entire stomach torn apart in a crowd of ravenous zombies. George Romero applauded "Shaun of the Dead" and this smart British production ranks as the best zombie comedy ever with snappy pacing and first-rate performances, particularly Bill Nighy as Philip.