The best we could ask for

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2005)

Okay, so a lot of us have seen Dawn of the Dead (old and new), Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Resident Evil and any other number of zombie films, right? So when you hear the term "funny" associated with "zombie" you think, "Oh, it's a spoof." Quite the opposite is true of Shaun of the Dead.
While one of the ambitions of the film makers is clearly to poke fun, it's not picking fun at zombie movies, but rather at society as a whole. They ask questions like "How much would really change if the world was overtaken by zombies?" and "How long would it take the average guy to notice?" With excellent performances from a virtually unknown cast and filmmakers who are driven by multiple viewings of George Romero's classics, Shaun of the Dead is an excellently good time from start to finish. The barrel of laughs provided by the two main characters (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) added to an average love story (which just happens to include zombies) produces the sort of movie you're never likely to see again and are certain to enjoy.
Will an invasion of zombies change the way we live forever? Probably not.