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Rating: 8/10 (11 April 2005)

What do you get when you have an electronic salesman his moronic best mate and a city widely growing in Zombie population? Shaun of the dead of course. Released (at least in the UK) around the same time as the remake of Dawn of the dead this was a great comic relief to anyone who thought the latter would be too scary but still wanted there walking dead fix. Step in Simon Pegg, great British actor and star of many comic shows including Spaced, and Nick Frost, who was also in spaced, and there portrayal of lazy drunken men who entire life is turned around by the realization of the dead coming back to life.
Simon Pegg is Shaun, senior sales assistant at a local electronics store. He hates his stepfather and his girlfriend is becoming very bored with him. Add Ed (Frost) into the picture, his best friend who just happens to live with him bringing in no money and playing Playstation all day long. Nighttime belongs to the Winchester pub, Shaun's local where he spends time with Liz (his girlfriend) and her friends David and Dianne.
When Liz decides that enough is enough Shaun's world is turned upside down, but another night in the Winchester with Ed and a very drunken rave in their living room and he is helped to forget her, maybe not for a long time but long enough to be absolutely hammered! It's only then that the true hilarity begins whether searching through records to decide which to throw at the oncoming undead or arguing whether dogs can look up this movie if full of humor and gore (what more do you need?) Even better is the end of the movie which I will leave for you to see all in all Shaun of the Dead is the reason that every one should give British films another look.