"Fido" is not as good zombie-comedy as "Shaun of the Dead" but it is a lively and funny story of the world where people don't die normally but transform into flesh-eating and menacing zombies.
Luckily there is a corporation, Zomcom, what has managed a possibility to live with zombies in a normal society. They can be servants and for other help, etc. Timmy Robinson (introducing K'Sun Ray) is a lonely boy who finds the most unusual friend of a Zombie Fido (Billy Connolly). Tim's father (Dylan Baker) opposes the zombies as a house-hold item but Tim's understanding mother (beautiful Carrie-Ann Moss) wants to take a zombie also to their family. Problems arise when Fido accidentally kills a old woman and compromises family Robinson's future...
"Fido" is a colorful and macabre, a nice little package of black humor. The feeling of the 50's is fun and gives a nostalgic touch to the subject and highlights the dark features. The movie is tagged as a horror-comedy but it is a thoroughbred comedy. There is nothing scary in it. "Fido" is entertaining and enjoyable comedy and includes lots of laughs. Besides a little plot flaws and a little too short film-duration the movie reflects the state of normal society by commenting it trough black humor. Though it would have been great to see more completed character-developing.
"I'd say I'm a pretty darn good father. My father tried to eat me. I don't remember trying to eat Timmy." -Bill Robinson-
Luckily there is a corporation, Zomcom, what has managed a possibility to live with zombies in a normal society. They can be servants and for other help, etc. Timmy Robinson (introducing K'Sun Ray) is a lonely boy who finds the most unusual friend of a Zombie Fido (Billy Connolly). Tim's father (Dylan Baker) opposes the zombies as a house-hold item but Tim's understanding mother (beautiful Carrie-Ann Moss) wants to take a zombie also to their family. Problems arise when Fido accidentally kills a old woman and compromises family Robinson's future...
"Fido" is a colorful and macabre, a nice little package of black humor. The feeling of the 50's is fun and gives a nostalgic touch to the subject and highlights the dark features. The movie is tagged as a horror-comedy but it is a thoroughbred comedy. There is nothing scary in it. "Fido" is entertaining and enjoyable comedy and includes lots of laughs. Besides a little plot flaws and a little too short film-duration the movie reflects the state of normal society by commenting it trough black humor. Though it would have been great to see more completed character-developing.
"I'd say I'm a pretty darn good father. My father tried to eat me. I don't remember trying to eat Timmy." -Bill Robinson-