With Halloween fast approaching, now is as good a time as any to get hooked on Fido, the low-budget, small treat of a zombie comedy that comes hot off the heels of Shaun of the Dead. It's not nearly as brilliant or as funny, but what Fido does offer is a great genre-blending parody of 1950s nostalgia by way of horror conformity. Now instead of Lucy whining about wanting that new fancy TV everyone else on the block already has, she's demanding that Ricky buy her the latest trend in the service industry: domestic zombies. Carrie-Anne Moss plays the doting housewife who pines for a zombie of her own. Dylan Baker is her stubborn, zombie-phobic husband who's still holding out. Billy Connolly is Fido, the lovable service zombie who eventually comes into their home and becomes "one of the family." OK, so it's a one joke comedy. It's a good joke. Watching Moss in full 1950s regalia happily bragging about her new zombie is a moment of twisted comedy worth seeing. This is a fun, little movie with a clever premise and some great laughs.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
DVD of the Week: Fido
With Halloween fast approaching, now is as good a time as any to get hooked on Fido, the low-budget, small treat of a zombie comedy that comes hot off the heels of Shaun of the Dead. It's not nearly as brilliant or as funny, but what Fido does offer is a great genre-blending parody of 1950s nostalgia by way of horror conformity. Now instead of Lucy whining about wanting that new fancy TV everyone else on the block already has, she's demanding that Ricky buy her the latest trend in the service industry: domestic zombies. Carrie-Anne Moss plays the doting housewife who pines for a zombie of her own. Dylan Baker is her stubborn, zombie-phobic husband who's still holding out. Billy Connolly is Fido, the lovable service zombie who eventually comes into their home and becomes "one of the family." OK, so it's a one joke comedy. It's a good joke. Watching Moss in full 1950s regalia happily bragging about her new zombie is a moment of twisted comedy worth seeing. This is a fun, little movie with a clever premise and some great laughs.
