After reality has hit us at the end of the film where we realise that we actually all might be as lazy as we thought. This comedy has English humour and quality acting, relationships, struggle to get a girl back a nothing that hasn't been played in that context. After the magnificent 28 days later, we know have another spoof of zombies, English style. With this cleverly hidden undertone of apparent laziness within our culture, the film is almost contradicting us but at the same time making, with truthful interpretation, us laugh. Is it fair to say that we are turning out to be the couch potatoes and literal zombie drunks that we imagine our 'fellow' Americans to be? Maybe. There is subtleness in humour that you don't expect, necessarily, at moments you may believe what is going to happen next but you maybe wrong.
The characters are all very enjoyable and the relationship between friend and girlfriend is comical and true in many respects, this is all cleverly interwoven into the script.
Simon Pegg playing Shaun is that loser that we hate to be associated with, someone with a low-end job crappy sense of romance and not realising how he should really treat Kate Ashfield his girl. Even when they do eventually make up, his same habits start to die on him so to speak. However, there is more to a relationship than being you after all who is the weakest link here, Shaun is calm and he gets out alive, but hey, this is a structured plot.
Nick Frost, playing Ed is one of these friends that does nothing, feeds off others, and is the worst to be advise from, ha. He sees life a beer that is about it he probably has the IQ of a glass of beer or half a pint, in a social situation, good, doing something with his life... bad, but hey he survives in the end.... The fact that zombies are walking around makes no difference to an area structured around slow movers and people who normally grunt in communication, this oblivious fact is only changed when the TV reveals all, ha the god.
Who could see Penelope Wilton as a zombie mother? Unfortunately, it happens, with a sad and somewhat shocking death. We later see this 'Shaun' has courage, under his idle laziness. Bill Nightly, hmmm well the fact that is was hard to decipher when he was a zombie was a thing to look out for, but he has his sensitive moments...
Shaun of the Dead is a must see the structure is well wired so to speak and a new English comedy soon to prove that we will see more of Mr. Pegg within this realm of comedy.
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