Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an enthusiastic ("this movie will kick your fucking scrotum inside you. it's awesome.") review of the wonderful SHAUN OF THE DEAD from a recent Kansas City test screening. You folks are not ready for this movie. Hopefully Focus Features will release this bad boy in the US soon and take advantage of all the buzz this thing is picking up... I heard a recent NYC test screening of SHAUN went through the roof. Beware of spoilers below!!! "We're not saying the zedword!!!" Ha! Simon Pegg and Nick Frost already own all your asses and you don't even know it yet! I can't wait for you folks to see this bloody movie!!! Damn you lucky UKers!!!
what's up harry?
There are a few times in peoples's lives when a movie rocks their world up and down. Shaun of the Dead is definitly one of those movies that makes you have a better day because you know the characters in the movie have a really shit-pissy day.
So I am in Kansas city with a friend and we roll up to the theater all hyped to see this movie we have been hearing soo much about. we end up getting to the movie about two hours before start time....(what, we had nothing else to do.) the people let us in and everyone who has to pass through the door gets a metal detactor waved up and down their body in case someone brings in a bombcamera. the audience as a whole was really mixed. all races and ages were in attendance. most of the audience did not know a single thing about the movie. they were in for a surprise. i personally sat 5 rows up in the center.
so the movie begins and the opening titles are great. it depicts normal day life and people waling in their normal routine as if they were zombies doing the same thing over and over again. then we get the character introductions which are the survivors, which are simon pegg (shaun), nick frost (ed), kate ashfield (liz), dylan moran (david), Lucy Davis (Dianne), Bill Nighy (Philip), Penelope Wilton (Barbara). All these actors/actressess are wonderful in this movie.
we see that shaun has a girlfriend that he is fucking things up with by him being a total loveable lazy asshole; and his best friend, ed, who is a fat drug dealing likeable funny man. Signs of zombie like behavior pop up after shaun's girl dumps him. finally shaun and ed figure out there our zombies after they throw what they think is a drunk chick on a sharp pole sticking out if the ground and she gets back up tand tries to eat them.
then we follow shaun and ed rescuing shaun's parents and girlfriend and her friends. there are many great sequences of head bashing and blood spewing going on in this part of the movie. one wonderful memorable scene was where shaun and ed were throwing record albums at zombies and they were fighting with each other on which album to throw. also running over zombies in a jaguar is always a plus for any movie. holy shit, if only 13 going on 30 had some zombies being run over by cars.
then we arrive to the plan of setting up shop at the trusty old bar the winchester. we start to see david become a real pain in the royal ass. more and more zombies are trying to get in and the owner of the bar turns into a zombie and tries to eat everyone and as a result shaun gets a throwing dart stuck in his skull by acciddent. funny ass shit.
i am going to leave yall with that, because i do not want to spoil the ending for any of yall. but the ending is perfection. this movie is pretty much perfection. there are a lot of guy richie type shots in this movie. if you could compare this to any film, it would have to be a cross breed between night of the living dead, the big lebowski, and snatch. i love that the zombies walk like the orignal normal zombies do, which is not flash speed fast. this movie has original story, great physical comedy, many laugh out loud scenes, and a couple dramatic clips. this movie will kick your fucking scrotum inside you. it's awesome. the audience responded well to it and cheered and clapped in several scenes and at the end gave it a round of applause.
oh yah, and the gore is wonderful. it just keeps on coming, especially when david gets eaten by zombies ripping his stomache open and eatingall the gooey insides. this definitly a date movie and definitly a movie you want to bring your third cousin to. watch out for a couple of cameos and movie references.
when this movie is released, you will see it andthen see it again, and again. you just have to ask yourself..W.W.B.C.D. (what would bruce campbell do?)
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