  Shaun Of The Dead Shaun is stuck in a dead end job and spends his time hanging out with childhood friend, Ed, either at home playing on the Playstation or at the Winchester Arms.
When Shaun suggests to his girlfriend,Liz, that they celebrate their anniversary at the Arms, she dumps him. After a night on the piss, Shaun decides to sort out his life and win Liz back. Unfortunately for Shaun, he picks the same day that a mysterious illness turns most of the residents of London into zombies. This is the first film made by the team behind Spaced, a sitcom based on the life of a group of loser twenty-somethings, so essentially, this is Spaced with zombies. Released a few weeks after the Dawn Of The Dead remake, it does seem quite sad for that film that just a few screens down is a film playing their 'terrifying scenes' for laughs.
Whether it's Shaun and Ed realising they have a zombie in their garden ("Oh my God... she's so drunk! "), the attempted use of Shaun's record collection to decapitate zombies ("Stone Roses ? ", "No! ", "Second Coming ? ", "Well, I liked it") or a character being ripped apart at by a group of zombies, these situations which would be played by anyone else for scares are just hilarious. We get the usual smart wordplay mixed with tactically timed swearing that made Spaced so much fun and quotable. A lot of this comes from the interplay between Simon Pegg (Shaun) and Nick Frost (Ed), which works just as well as it did in the sitcom. There is also some great slapstick humour, involving the use of a cricket bat to try and combat the zombies and an inspired use of a Queen song during a fight scene.
There are also a couple of points in the film which are poignant and very sad, including one moment which I believe is the darkest moment ever to be included in a film called a comedy. Basically, a lot of whether you like this film might depend on whether you like Spaced and similar comdies or not. With a cast that includes Dylan Moran (Black Books), Lucy Davies (The Office) and Jessica Stevenson (Spaced), as well as an inspired moment late in the film featuring cameos from multiple figures from UK comedy, it could end up feeling at times like a huge injoke. So, considering it in this way, I think it has the potential to be one of my favourite ever films.
It may not bear up under repeated viewing, but I really enjoyed it. Unsurprisingly for people who know me, jokes about a dead-beat mid twenty loser and the, at times extreme, black humour seemed pitched perfectly at me. I haven't laughed at hard at a film since I saw South Park. When it comes down to it, yes, it's a feature length episode of Spaced with zombies.
However, this adds up to a great British comedy film which, unlike many British comedies, does not have a message about pit closures or the decline of the steel industry or English people acting like upper-middle class twats who go ga-ga over the first American lass they see. It deserves to do well, which I think it will with word of mouth, and when you get a chance, go see it and enjoy one of the funniest, most original film in years. 5/5 
