Friday, October 08, 2004

100% Fried Gold!

Just saw Shaun Of The Dead and it is fucking brilliant. Sorry, but I gotta say that again; FUCKING BRILLIANT!

The acting was good, the editing and plotting were excellent and, well, it was just too damn cool for school. With references as wide as Evil Dead (an employee called Ash calling in sick) to the original Spaced series (funnily enough, given half the cast is the same), Shaun manages to be both a spoof of a genre and a legitimate entry in it. Pratchett would be proud.

Spontaneous applause sprang up on more than one occasion, and not just from the Evil Bunny crew, either. Not only is it uproariously funny, but it also manages to be serious, with a couple of genuinely tragic moments - albeit none that anyone who has seen another zombie film wouldn't expect. Oh, and more than one serious scare too.

Best bits? Slipping in the convenience store, Nick Frost winding on the camera, trampolining over the wall and playing Timesplitters 2 at the end. Oh and the bit where the zombies eat... but that'd be telling.

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