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Shaun of the Dead (15)
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6
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6.70
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| Starring |
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Simon Pegg (pictured third from right), Nick Frost (extreme right), Kate Ashfield (second left)
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Directed by:
Edgar Wright
Written by:
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
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| Released: |
2004 |
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ACTION
ROMANCE
BLACK COMEDY
HORROR
COMEDY
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GB |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
100 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| | “Good, goofy fun, but given the attendant hype, there may be a danger of excessively high expectations from horror fans.” | | (Luke Y. Thompson, Dallas Observer) | | For those who like their spoofs silly and their cartoonish gore vivid, Shaun offers some amusement.” | | (Claudia Puig, USA Today) | | “Pegg and Wright are out of their depth in the second half, when they try to engage the more disturbing elements of Romero's movies, but their disaffected slacker take on the genre is a welcome alternative to the usual bloodbaths.” ( J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader) “Though the image of a hung-over Shaun stumbling into the TV room and yawning with zombie-like mannerisms is smirk-worthy, Shaun of the Dead’s humor is eventually too self-consciously cute, too interested in winking at its audience while referencing Romero’s classics, for Shaun and company’s increasingly dire circumstances. A last-act scene in which the motley crew temporarily holes itself up in The Winchester is an awkward mix of actual suspense (how will they survive the encroaching menace?) and screwball humor (Shaun’s terrible aim with a rifle) that exemplifies the film’s uncomfortable marriage of moderate gore and sitcom silliness. Whereas the early scenes take a suitably droll perspective on the crisis – such as Shaun and Ed being too lazy to watch TV news reports long enough to learn what’s caused this outbreak of unholy resurrection – the film’s laid-back foolishness is ultimately replaced by strained one-liners, Shaun and Ed’s second-rate Laurel and Hard routine, and lackadaisical plotting during the deflating climax involving Shaun’s evolution into adulthood. This cheeky tribute to iconic zombiefests is far from hellish, but in the end, Shaun of the Dead’s splattering of scatological jokes and goofy gruesomeness never fully congeals.” | | (Nicholas Schager, Filmcritic.com) | |
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