Snatch-Like Brit Zombies

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2006)

I guess you could call this a combination of "Dawn of the Dead" and "Snatch," the latter used as a comparison because of it's modern-day dark humor, That's what this film is: a combination of irreverent, modern-day attitudes and profanity from young Brits and a re-make of sorts of a famous horror film.
Here, we these these 20-ish types fighting a mob of the "undead" as zombies roam neighborhoods devouring everyone. Our hero (Simon Pegg), a shiftless bum who has just lost his girlfriend due to his ineptness, winds up being the productive guy who saves the day and gets his girl back. Along the way, we get a number of laughs and a number of gross-out horror scenes, and a lot of f- words and the like. Nick Frost, as Simon''s best friend, provides the best and most disgusting of the low-life characters, which are unfamiliar over here.
This is dark humor, to say the least, and would would appeal more to younger people although I like dark humor and I'm an old fart....but others over 50, beware. It was good entertainment in a crude way. My only complaint was trying to understand some of the sentence and British phrases of the day.