Simon, Edgar and a slice of fried gold

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2008)

What can i say? i adore this film. i love Simon and Edgar collaborations and this is brilliant. funny, witty, inventive and a great showcase of the zombie genre! The writing is great and watching this film a second (or even ten) times is a must. i have noticed so many things i didn't the first time round and so many ironies and gags.
What i love is how quotable the film is and how it depicts the horror genre without true drama and tragedy but with a laugh, yet Shaun remains convincing throughout and the situation is totally realistic (If zombies existed) the characters are all great and bill Nighy is fab as step dad phillip and the pool cue beating set to 'don't stop me now' by Queen is genius. It is filmed and directed fantastically, with great detail and care and it's got plenty of blood and guts if that's your thing.
Simon Pegg is such a great actor and he is so easy to watch, he makes me laugh and feel sad and his partnership with Nick Frost is inspiring.
Overall, a cult film in my opinion, so much better than any other modern comedies which rely too much on 'gross out' humour rather than wit and intelligence, plus this has got the blood too, what more could you want, as the film poster says, it's got romance too, but not heavy on it.
If you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for?