Another comedy classic from the makers of Spaced

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2004)

In the ads for this film, it claims it is a "Romantic comedy - with Zombies" and I for one, couldn't agree more.
This film is, at the core a feature length "Spaced" episode (with a bit of good old cheap zombie gore and some silly predictable romance thrown in) and, as all the Spaced episodes were, extremely funny. It stars Simon Pegg (leading actor from spaced)who is always very funny in anything, but in this film he excels himself, he acts the part perfectly, with an almost Oscar winning performance.
Shaun of the dead is NOT I repeat NOT a spoof on zombie films, it is, as the makers say, a comedy, with zombies. The comedy has a small, well earned break whenever gore or certain scenes of disenbowlment and decapatation ocurr. This film, for all you film geeks out there, remains true to all the other zombie movies, and contains a certain amount of respect for them.
It is also very clever, its message is that we are already all zombies, the entire point of the film (apart from making anyone who sees it laugh there head of) is to make this comment on todays society. The film contains numerous witty quotes from other films. The actors all give brilliant performances, which makes an already sure fire classic, even better. 10/10