Fido Reviews
Maxim
The concept is great and the movie has its moments. Just not enough of them.
| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticFido 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.
Slant Magazine
Fido never goes anywhere interesting or particularly funny with its sketch-comedy premise.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Long Island Press
A satirical spoof of the 1950s, in a bold but limited attempt to take a second, more irreverent look at what truly was going on back then.
ColeSmithey.com
The movie happily rolls out retro trappings that promise some salient social commentary, perhaps about illegal immigrants, that never comes to fruition.
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| Original Score: C+
Apollo Guide
This attempt at parodying the zombie genre via 50s pop culture never really finds its feet. Or teeth.
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| Original Score: 55/100
Director Andrew Currie is better at laughs than scares, but he can't sustain either as Fido runs out of steam in the final stretch.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
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.
Film Journal International
There's nothing here that couldn't have been done better in an eight-minute sketch on "Saturday Night Live."
This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.
Compuserve
The problem with this movie is that Billy Connolly never gets to open his mouth wide.
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| Original Score: C
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.
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| Original Score: 2/6
You think they're dead, these zombie-film parodies, but, one after another, they keep lumbering back.
One Guy's Opinion
Stretches its one-joke premise and artificial look beyond the breaking point.
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| Original Score: C
Boxoffice Magazine
The film retreats to political allegory -- evocations of the Bush administration's so-called fear-mongering on terrorism -- and obvious pot shots at family values. More than anything, Fido is a missed opportunity.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Los Angeles Daily News
This Technicolor goof on parallel-universe nostalgia has a serious timing problem. It plays like a '50s sitcom, and not the good, I Love Lucy kind.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
