Review of Fido (2006) by Brad H — 09 Aug 2009

This set-up sounds like an amusing premise for a mild little low-budget spoof, but Fido is much more than that: it's a full-blown social satire with zombies at its center. One senses that zombie film kingpin George A.

Romero, who satirized consumerism in "Dawn of the Dead," would smile like a proud papa if he saw it. It's beautifully filmed (in the saturated primary colors of 1950s-style Technicolor), and it features a performance by the veteran Scottish actor Billy Connolly that's a small marvel of comic resourcefulness.

Crazy and gutsy and campy and gross in all the right places.,Leave It to Beaver and Lassie meet Night of the Living Dead. Fun films have been in short supply lately, don't miss this one.