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Fido (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 49 | 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: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 5

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
User Ratings: 46,639

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Movie Info

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,

Oct 23, 2007

Roadside Attractions/Samuel Goldwyn

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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (51) | 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 | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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 | Comment
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
Ebert & Roeper
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In the ticklishly amusing satire Fido, the undead stagger along like stunned toddlers.

June 15, 2007 Comment
New York Times
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Fido does offer a good number of laughs, along with a healthy serving of gore to satisfy horror fans.

June 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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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.

June 15, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
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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 | Comment
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) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

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

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 | Comment
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 | Comment
Urban Cinefile

fun

April 9, 2008 Comment

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

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

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

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

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

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
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) | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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

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

Fido's humor comes from the clash of genres: bright cheery Americana butting up against the death and destruction of zombie horror.

July 14, 2007 Comment
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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

Super Reviewer

Fido has got to be one of the most original zombie films that I've seen in quite some time. I felt that this was one of the best zombie comedies to come out since Shaun of the Dead and Return of the Living Dead. Fido is among the best of the zombie comedies, and add to that it's a totally different take on the genre

September 14, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

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