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Fido (2006)

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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.

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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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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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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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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.

October 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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It'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.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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The movie's breezy, blood-flecked entertainment, with no aim other than to give you a giggle and a shriek.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
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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.

June 18, 2007 | Comment (1)
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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.

June 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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In the ticklishly amusing satire Fido, the undead stagger along like stunned toddlers.

June 15, 2007
New York Times
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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.

September 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

Surprisingly gentle in most of its humor and its gore quotient, making you wonder who exactly it was aimed at.

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Fido finds a new wrinkle in the nearly exhausted zombie genre.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Times
Washington Times

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.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter
ESplatter

The filmmakers get darkly amusing mileage out of the notion of tamed zombies in suburbian servitude

April 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
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fun

April 9, 2008

The DVD version provides the movie in its original widescreen format, without any extras.

November 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Cute and witty, if a bit too dependent on its delightfully goofy storyline gimmick.

November 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Fido is a fetching comedy with tongue-in-cheek social commentary and a quick wit.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Horror.com
Horror.com

Think of it as "Pleasantville" a la George Romero with a dash of Tim Burton...

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

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.

September 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Starts with an excellent idea, but doesn't carry it far enough

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

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

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinerina

Audience Reviews for Fido

Nothing like zombie milk men. This was one of the best zombie comedys ive seen yet. Carrie Ann Moss did a turn that i hadnt seen in her and the whole concept was just good fun.
May 11, 2008
jmanard52

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I can't help but think that the poster puts off people, it's a little misleading. It's been on my radar for some time now but only because I was curious to see what Billy Connolly looked like as a Zombie. Well, I was very pleasantly surprised, Fido exceeded my expectations enormously. It's originality within the genres is commendable, it's a zombie film that is nothing like a zombie film but isn't a cheap shot comedy either. It asks whimsical social questions, turns things around and looks at things from another angle. The pleasant looking but often deeply disturbing 1950's wholesome little town was a perfect setting. I don't think anyone tried too hard to make a statement here but I think there is an element of serendipity at work, at the very least they've made an uniquely funny film that deserves a little more love. Sack the Post-production team!
March 14, 2013
SirPant

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    1. Bill Robinson: Flesh eating maniacs need not apply!!
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