You will have such a good time...

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2006)

OK, this movie had in my country one of the worst promotions I have ever seen. Even they changed the great title from "Shaun of the dead" to "Zombie's party". Impossible to explain, this shows that great horror movies like this one have a bad promotion because of the thematic. Looks like the premise of ROM-ZOM-COM wasn't interesting enough for my country, but sadly I can't change that.
About the movie, I have to say that I have never laugh so much with a horror movie like with this one. The duo of Edward Wright and Simon Pegg is genius, their screenplay has nothing to envy the ones written by George Romero, and the powerful comedy is not an excuse to show us really gruesome zombie gore moments.
There is no political background here, here is social background. A guy passing through the crisis of his upcoming 30's, he has to move on to survive. So he has to keep living without friends, without his mom, without his step-dad (Bill Nighy, such a joy), and to fix things with his girlfriend.
As the tag line says, this is a romantic comedy with zombies, and you can't dig much more in that basic plot, which makes it delightfully simple.