Dead men and women walking.

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 2015)

Very funny Pegg and Frost vehicle spoofing zombie films actually quite a long time before the whole "Twilight" thing got underway not to mention the sub-genre of historical characters like Abraham Lincoln combating the undead when not fighting a civil war and abolishing slavery.
If anything, I found there were probably too many zombies on display leading to lots of time taken up battering, skewering and shooting hordes of them, which to my mind got in the way a little of the very funny humour elsewhere. Sure Frost and Pegg are just another set of men behaving badly, Frost the lazy, slobbish leech and Pegg the bright, blokey nerd but they play off each other so well that I'll forgive the stereotypes.
The gags come thick and fast, with running-gags a-plenty ("You've got red on you", "I'm sorry, Shaun" and more), sight and slapstick-gags and lots of local humour to relate to, especially if you're born in the UK. I found very few of the jokes obviously telegraphed, instead finding the humour and general observation both fresh and funny. My favourite gag, probably the deciding of which records to aim at the zombies - "Purple Rain" - No, "Sign Of The Times" - definitely not, "Batman" soundtrack - send it!
Director Edgar Wright does so briskly, especially with those now familiar fast-cut edits to speed along a scene or a joke. There's good support by all, but principally from Bill Nighy as Shaun's stand-offish step-dad and Lucy Smith as Shaun's girlfriend's girl-friend.
All in all, just a very funny, if fake-gore-loving comedy, which rather like the zombies in the movie, I'd happily jump back up again to re-watch any future chance I get.