I don't even 'do' horror...

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2004)

... I get too involved, too upset and too freaked out by gore so horror is the only film genre that I avoid like the plague.
THIS film - however - looked special enough for me to brave the trauma and I'm so glad I did. Even if I was curled up in a ball with my hands over my face for a fair proportion of the film. Sorry, by the way, to all those in the cinema who got a few extra frights from the wee stifled squealing noises I made every now and again.
Many of the comments already listed focus on the film's solid 'Britishness' and consider it unlikely to do well on the other side of the Atlantic. Whilst I wholeheartedly agree that the movie is firmly - completely - wonderfully British (no casting of US actors to sweeten the state-side box office potential here!) I think there's just a possibility it could achieve a respectable level of interest and cult status with a discerning US crowd. There are a few North Americans who realise that British Comedy isn't all Benny Hill, Are You Being Served or Hugh Grant who will seek out the strange and unusual.
Just so long as Pegg et al are not seduced into trying to work in Hollywood - that would be a very bad idea.
Hats off to all involved in this hugely enjoyable movie. Here's to a sequel - but only if the script is absolutely top notch (don't do a Matrix 2/3 on us for god's sake!)