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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
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Reviews Counted:171
Fresh:155
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Shaun of the Dead cleverly balances scares and witty satire, making for a bloody good zombie movie with loads of wit.
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $13,464,388
Synopsis: Edgar Wright's horror-comedy film, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, follows the title character (Simon Pegg) through his mundane life in London. Joined by his immature and ever-present roommate, Ed (Nick Frost),... [More]
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09/25/04
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10/18/08
[T]the inevitable switch to romance taints the irony that came before like backwash.
10/10/04
Silly drop-dead sight gags that don't seem to work as well as intended but, nevertheless, offer some humor.
07/23/05
It may want to be, as the British might say, a bloody riot, but in fact it seems to suffer from a case of comedic anemia.
09/24/04
Shaun of the Dead isn't as funny as it's purporting to be.
09/27/04
Desperate, dull and enough to have Romero's zombies spinning in their graves. Well, more than usual, anyway.
04/23/04
Ineffective as satire, comedy, and horror.
10/02/04
The movie has been running on shtick for so long that the attempt at drama rings hollow.
09/24/04
If ever a movie screamed "wait for the video" this is it!
10/25/04
Pedestrian direction and script sap what anarchic fun this movie could've been
09/20/06
The amusing but inconsistent Shaun of the Dead is a marriage made in hell.
08/21/04
The main problem is that Shaun feels like a high-budget, season-ending, extended-length TV episode. Once the situation itself is milked for laughs, the film falls flat.
09/24/04
While there are laughs and inspired moments, the comedic aspect almost disappears at the height of the movie, in favour of the goriest events I can remember in recent cinema.
09/23/04
Shaun of the Dead is either a zombie flick masking as a comedy, or a comedy masking as a zombie flick, or Beautiful Girls masking as a zombie comedy.
10/22/04
Shaun of the Dead’s splattering of scatological jokes and goofy gruesomeness never fully congeals.
09/10/04
...the second half of the film is just a standard horror movie showdown with a few mildly amusing gags.
09/27/04
Top CriticA well executed one-joke movie. But, even it's a good joke, it's only one joke.
11/05/04
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