Almost too good

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2005)

I never would have rented this film if it weren't for the Blockbuster gift card I received for Christmas. I am so glad that I did. I was surprised at my attachment to the characters towards the end, and I realized what a well-balanced split there was between character development and plot climax, humor and horror, love and sadness. The gore was conservative for what it could have been and didn't at all interfere with the flow or progress. The characters were believable, although they did quickly and gleefully take up the bloodlust necessary to dispatch zombies, they still acted in a reasonably disgusted manner. The comedy was superb although I sometimes felt that they were using that British accent to accentuate the comedy; if the same things were said with an American accent it wouldn't have been as funny. All the same, I laughed much more than I expected, and said "This is great" out loud more than once throughout the film. Plus, any film where two main characters sing Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines" would get a score of at least 7 from me, even if the rest of the movie was about a mute woman who teaches Harvey Keitel to play the piano.