Fido (2007)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 63 Fresh: 43 Rotten:20 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus:
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 15, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Lying somewhere between PLEASANTVILLE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, FIDO is a zombie buddy pic/love story set in a picture-perfect, technicolored 1950s suburb. With the world still recovering from a zombie war that broke out several decades prior, the town of Willard has found a way to keep... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Tim Blake Nelson, Dylan Baker, Henry Czerny
Director: Andrew Currie
Screenwriter: Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak, Dennis Heaton
Producer: Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse
Screenwriter: Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak, Dennis Heaton
Producer: Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse
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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.
07/11/08
The filmmakers get darkly amusing mileage out of the notion of tamed zombies in suburbian servitude
04/26/08
Cute and witty, if a bit too dependent on its delightfully goofy storyline gimmick.
11/08/07
Fido is a fetching comedy with tongue-in-cheek social commentary and a quick wit.
10/24/07
This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.
10/23/07
Top Critic
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.
09/27/07
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
08/16/07
Fido's humor comes from the clash of genres: bright cheery Americana butting up against the death and destruction of zombie horror.
07/14/07
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.
07/06/07
The movie's breezy, blood-flecked entertainment, with no aim other than to give you a giggle and a shriek.
07/06/07
Top Critic
It's beautifully filmed (in the saturated primary colors of 1950s-style Technicolor), and it features a performance by the veteran Scottish actor Billy Connolly that's a small marvel of comic resourcefulness.
07/06/07
[Director Currie] never lets the commentary overwhelm the humor, and the echoes of Douglas Sirk melodramas and Lassie movies just add to the fun.
07/05/07
This spoof of 1950s attitudes is also a witty commentary on 21st-century issues such as homeland security and illegal immigration.
07/05/07
Boasts a premise that might make for an amusing Far Side panel -- '50s suburbia with zombie servants -- and... doesn't do much else with it, actually.
07/04/07
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