The Z-word movie we all knew was going to happen.

Rating: 9/10 (25 March 2006)

As a college student that loves film, I enjoy all types of movies. My roommate and I especially enjoy the Zombie genre because of its utter predictability, its lack of fresh ideas, and its unintentional comedic qualities. There is nothing that I enjoy more on a rainy day then turning on a zombie movie and laughing and joking throughout the entire film.
When I saw the preview for Shaun of the Dead I thought finally a movie that will make fun of zombie movies so I won't have to. Boy, did it meet my expectations. This movie is the best Zombie movie in years, maybe even ever because it exploits the ridiculousness of the make up of the movies.
Cast of stock characters for Z movies. The main character: smart, leader, and always survives. Main Characters love interested: agreeable, attempts to rally the group to follow the MC. Idiot: disagrees, makes dumb decisions and always gets the group in trouble, always gets it in the end. All the characters are there but this movie adds one element to give a shock treatment to the world of Zombie movies ED. What a great character, (comic relief, although the movie is already hysterical) best friend of the main character and a complete new character for this type of movie. His completely lack of brain mass leads to the funniest scenes in the movie. A character that stays completely the same throughout the entire movie never wavering even with the entire city turned into the living dead.
This movie is littered with British comedy mixed with one liners that will make you laugh even after seeing the movie 100 times.
This movie came out right during the peek of horrible, new and remade, Zombie movies; 28 days, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, and some other dead movies that I have blocked out of my mind. This film is the best by far and I would recommend it to anyone who has sometime and wants to laugh. Finally a Zombie movie you don't have to talk through to have fun watching it.