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This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.
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.
In the ticklishly amusing satire Fido, the undead stagger along like stunned toddlers.
Fido does offer a good number of laughs, along with a healthy serving of gore to satisfy horror fans.
The main joke here is that Connolly's Fido, though he never speaks, seems more alive than the rigidly conformist '50s males around him. It's not quite enough to keep Fido more than a slight comedy.
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
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
Fido's humor comes from the clash of genres: bright cheery Americana butting up against the death and destruction of zombie horror.
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