Fido (2006)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 21
Making the most of its thin premise, Fido is an occasionally touching satire that provides big laughs and enough blood and guts to please gorehounds.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 8
Making the most of its thin premise, Fido is an occasionally touching satire that provides big laughs and enough blood and guts to please gorehounds.
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In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility "pet" ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society's rapid slide into chaos, however,
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Cast
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David Kaye
Narrator -
Jan Skorzewski
Eating Zombie -
Kevin Tyell
Zombie's Victim -
Andy Parkin
Dr. Hrothgar Geiger -
Lynn Pendleton
1940's Mother -
Gary Slater
Father Zombie -
Taylor Petri
Little Girl -
Glenn Richards
Vicious Zombie -
Raphael Kepinski
Collar Light Zombie -
Carl-James Kalbfleisch
Child Zombie -
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Miss Mills -
K'Sun Ray
Timmy Robinson -
Alexia Fast
Cindy Bottoms -
Henry Czerny
Mr. Bottoms -
Aaron Brown
Roy Fraser -
Brandon Olds
Stan Fraser -
Jennifer Clement
Dee Dee Bottoms -
Tim Blake Nelson
Mr. Theopolis -
Sonja Bennett
Tammy -
Mary Black
Mrs. Henderson -
Bernard Cuffling
Mr. Henderson -
Mike Azevedo
Henderson Zombie -
Carrie-Anne Moss
Helen Robinson -
Billy Connolly
Fido -
Dylan Baker
Bill Robinson -
Glen Power
Zombie Milkman -
Michael Irwin
Human Milkman -
Liam Crocker
Zombie Paperboy -
Lauren Oleksewich
TV Girl -
Harold Courchene
Zombie Grandpa -
Geoff Adams
Public Service Officer -
Michael P. Northey
Joe Petersen -
Adam Scorgie
Miss Mills's Boyfriend -
John B. Lowe
Priest -
Raymond E. Bailey
Floyd -
Doug Abrahams
Commanding Officer -
Rob La Belle
Frank Murphy -
Jacob Rupp
Returns Room Clerk -
Clint Carlton
Returns Rooms Customer -
Lauro Chartrand
Bezerk Zombie -
Andrew Hedge
Human Worker -
Chad Sayn
Poacher -
Rick Pearce
Poacher Driver -
Barbara Moss
Helen's Mom
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All Critics (74) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (21) | DVD (9)
This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.
Top CriticIt's a one-gag movie that starts off clever and cute, but wears thin after half an hour, and ultimately is like an excruciating Enzyte commercial for an hour and a half.
The movie's breezy, blood-flecked entertainment, with no aim other than to give you a giggle and a shriek.
Fido is a one-joke movie with some good performances and a few good gross-out moments. But it's not dark enough or sick enough to be a cult favorite.
A zombie comedy that feels late to the bloody punch bowl. Yet the real hindrance here isn't bad timing, but the movie's tiresomely chirpy 1950s Father Knows Best setting, which wears out its welcome in seconds.
In the ticklishly amusing satire Fido, the undead stagger along like stunned toddlers.
Andrew Currie's script incisively observes how taboo preferences have become policies in the reality "Fido" creates. Macabre and satirical with the brash brio of all great zombie movies, "Fido" understands that the true ghouls' hearts are still beating.
Surprisingly gentle in most of its humor and its gore quotient, making you wonder who exactly it was aimed at.
Fido finds a new wrinkle in the nearly exhausted zombie genre.
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.
The filmmakers get darkly amusing mileage out of the notion of tamed zombies in suburbian servitude
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The DVD version provides the movie in its original widescreen format, without any extras.
Cute and witty, if a bit too dependent on its delightfully goofy storyline gimmick.
Fido is a fetching comedy with tongue-in-cheek social commentary and a quick wit.
Think of it as "Pleasantville" a la George Romero with a dash of Tim Burton...
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.
Starts with an excellent idea, but doesn't carry it far enough
If this movie's concept appeals to you at all, I urge you to reward the filmmakers by seeing in the theatre if at all possible. It's so small but so special. For you zombie fans, it's a great dessert after all the carnage, but it still delivers what we
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