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Much like "Abbott and Costello Meets the Mummy," "Shaun of the Dead" delivers several tongue-in-cheek jokes and moments that would have the typical person thinking, 'what are these people thinking?' As a parody of George A. Romero's classic zombie movie "Night of the Living Dead" (also "Day of the Dead," "Dawn of the Dead", the remake, and "Land of the Dead"), director Edgar Wright not only pays homage to the acclaimed director (and, inassuch, Romero cast both Wright and leading actor Simon Pegg in his "Land of the Dead" movie because he loved Shaun of the Dead) but delivers the best dry-British wit humor that has the normal American shrugging their shoulders while those Americans with more sophistication are rolling on the ground laughing so hard tears are streaming down their face. 29-year-old Shaun (Simon Pegg) has a life going nowhere. He lives with his moocher friend Ed (Nick Frost) who spends all his time playing video games instead of finding a job. Shaun himself works as a regular employee at an electronics store and his relationship with his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) can be described as rocky, at best. And his relationship with his stepfather Philip (Bill Nighy) is straining his own relationship with his mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton). Suddenly people start dying, and zombies start filling the streets. Unlike any normal person, this doesn't seem to phase Shaun in the least, as he goes about conducting his own mindless routines. Finally Shaun realizes what's going on and decides to gather all he loves and ride it through at the local pub the Winchester, which he describes as a fortress. So he and Ed go and pick up Shaun's mother and stepfather (who has already been bitten by a zombie), then goes to Liz's apartment complex and, after a brief interchange about this not being about them getting back together but about survival, departs the complex with Liz's friends Dianne (Lucy Davis) and David (Dylan Moran). As they trek to the safety of the pub, the team comes into contact with several terrors, yet it is done in a comical way that has the viewer laughing instead of screaming. Even as the zombies converge on the pub, it is a delightful romp that takes away from the terror. "Shaun of the Dead" is, in my mind, one of the best British comedy movies I have seen, behind the Monty Python series, of course. You just can't compete with those guys! Shaun: [in concerned tone] Mum, have you been bitten? Barbara: No, but Philip has. Shaun: Oh, OK. Ed: [concerned] What's going on? Shaun: We might have to kill my step-dad. Ed: Oh, OK. From boxofficemojo.com: Shaun of the Dead Rogue Pictures Horror Comedy 1 hr 39 min R Release Date: September 24, 2004 Close Date: December 2, 2004 Domestic: $13,542,874 Worldwide: $30,006,846 email this review to a friend
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