Shaun of the Dead
2004 Directed by Edgar Wright
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A romantic comedy. With zombies.
Shaun of the Dead is a humorous homage to Zombie movies from director Edgar Wright; an outrageous romantic comedy with zombies.
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"Ohh, for God's sake! He's got an arm off!" - Shaun
I've just realised how much this film relies on repetition. This is no bad thing, considering how much skill it requires to pull it off. On the surface and on first watch, you admire the fast pace and gory action, and most of the one-liners fly over your head. But on re-watches, there's many, many recurring lines that are funny for no reason. Example: The phrase "17" is repeated twice in completely irreverent situations. It amuses me. I don't know why.
The best slice of fried gold from Britain, that's for sure.
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Genuinely fucking funny.
The only thing holding this back is its rather standard zombie battle ending. But the first hour is stunning. Brilliant jokes and brilliant touches make this one of the finest Rom-zom films ever made...
It is one of very few films that I will always watch when it's on TV.
Now, can I get any of you cunts a drink?
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Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?
Shaun of the Dead is a genuine, "let's sit back with a bag of crisps and a coke" film. Everything about it screams mundane Britain, from its queues of oblivious, brain dead customers at the check outs, to its over dependency on the pub as a place for decision making and socialising. The joke is that the average 9-5 job is enough to make anyone numb to their surroundings. If a zombie apocalypse were to suddenly occur, how long would it take you to realise? It takes Shaun and Edd approximately one night and one day, and about half an hour of the film goes by before they've properly twigged.…
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"Take car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil. Grab Liz. Go to The Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over."
"Oh for God's sake, he's got an arm off!""
"I'm quite alright Barbara, I ran it under a cold tap. We had our jabs when we went to the Isle Of Wight."
"How's that for a slice of fried gold?"
"Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?"
The third film I've seen this weekend that can be described as 'perfect', this is one of those movies that you can guarantee people will be still be talking about for decades the way they do so now. It has every sign of becoming…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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"Ba da ba da da da da ... Ahhhhhhh .... Ba da ba da ba da da .... Ahhhhhh...."
Some pretty priceless moments in this film. Hilarious at times.
Simon Pegg is funny as per usual. His sarcastic humour is always guaranteed for a laugh. Partnered with Nick Frost the two of them seal the deal in a hilarious film about a zombie apocalypse. Dylan Moran and Bill Nighy especially also add to the awesomeness of this film.
Some of the scenarios are incredibly funny and dry, yet you know its a good film when I still jump at some of the scenes. Some of it is kinda creepy, yet its played up in the best way. Some scenes I…
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Edgar Wright's directorial debut proper is a wonderfully funny and endearing zombie film with emotional moments that work far better than the might have were the film played straight. -
Community's Zombie Halloween episode was a better execution of this idea, and in twenty-two minutes.
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Witty and clever with squirts of blood. A hilarious zombie comedy.
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Simply the best zombie movie since Romero's original DAWN OF THE DEAD, a stellar comedy in its own right, and a great deconstruction of genre tropes even as the film revels in them. The first chapter in Edgar Wright's thematically-linked "Cornetto Trilogy" is just so damn good, funny, and even occasionally heart-wrenching that it's a genuine shock that his later work is somehow EVEN BETTER.
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My favourite romantic comedy and horror film. How's that for a slice of fried gold?
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"Ohh, for God's sake! He's got an arm off!" - Shaun
I've just realised how much this film relies on repetition. This is no bad thing, considering how much skill it requires to pull it off. On the surface and on first watch, you admire the fast pace and gory action, and most of the one-liners fly over your head. But on re-watches, there's many, many recurring lines that are funny for no reason. Example: The phrase "17" is repeated twice in completely irreverent situations. It amuses me. I don't know why.
The best slice of fried gold from Britain, that's for sure.
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Haven't watched this all the way through in a while. Nonstop throwback horror movie references and plenty of in-jokes make this one of my top 10 favorite movies. Wrights style is great, I LOVE the use of jump cuts and quick zooms to almost mock the "jump scare" tactic of normal "horror" or "zombie" films. The film is acted perfectly by Pegg and Frost (as well as the smaller roles, especially those played by Nighy, Penelope Wilton and Dylan Moran). I think the only thing bad I could pick out was the pace. I think around the late 2nd/early 3rd act, the film starts to drag a bit. Other than that though, a fantastic comedy, with plenty of brains, and plenty of zombies to eat them.
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It's funny to think it's been almost 10 years since Edgar Wright unleashed his "romantic comedy - with zombies" on the world. 10 years later and it still feels fresh, funny, and just plain awesome.
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One of my favorite Zombie movies of all time. It's perfection. It has the blood and gore, and has the humor.