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(1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1   "[T]the inevitable switch to romance taints the irony that came before like backwash."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale 4/5 "What a sheer delight that we now have a romantic comedy that puts false hope where it belongs: in the face of the annihilation of the entire human race."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens A- "A film geek’s dream come true... Shaun is a delightful romp through bloody entrails and pints of beer. "   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Casting Bill Nighy as a zombie -- or more accurately, a zombie to be -- may not be precisely innovative, but it's clever and wholly enjoyable."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 76/100 "Like all self-respecting zombie flicks, the oft-funny Shaun of the Dead deals as much with wicked social commentary as it does with gruesome murder and maniacal mayhem."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 2.5/4 "Extremely well made but only sporadically engaging..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Silly drop-dead sight gags that don't seem to work as well as intended but, nevertheless, offer some humor."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Intelligently wicked and bloodily appealing in an agile sort of way."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman A- "This is that rare, lucky film that gets to have its brains and eat them, too."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "You’re aware the filmmakers have paid attention over the years and even if you haven’t, Shaun of the Dead is still a bloody blast."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3.5/4 "...[a] devilishly dandy flesh-eating farce...uniquely hilarious and horrifying...Shaun and his cannibalistic cohorts will truly get under your skin."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C+ "It may want to be, as the British might say, a bloody riot, but in fact it seems to suffer from a case of comedic anemia."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "For those who don't mind a little laughter with their zombies (or perhaps it should be the other way around), this is an unusual source of entertainment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "works hard to find a delicate balancing act between generating tension and humorously subverting it, often in the blink of an eye"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "A fun outing that somehow never really quite takes off . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 3/5 "British-import "Rom-Zom-Com" has a little undead life to it, but it's definitely a zombie-come-lately."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Pedestrian direction and script sap what anarchic fun this movie could've been"   Perihelion Journal   Jay Antani 10/10 "It not only functions as a parody of the genre, it works as a straight-up entry, and ends up being a loving homage."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2/4 "The amusing but inconsistent Shaun of the Dead is a marriage made in hell."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 89/100 "Shaun of the Dead will appeal to audiences of all ages and tastes, and is a fine example of British comedy done well."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 4.5/5 "It’s being billed as a zombie romantic comedy, but it’s not Rotting Hill – it’s definitely a zombie adventure movie first. And it's a hoot and a half!"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "... who better to trust with your life than someone you wouldn’t trust with anything else?"   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "Shaun of the Dead stands up as a horror movie as well as a comedy."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "This is played for laughs, but director Edgar Wright also builds up suspense and dread better than a lot of straight horror flicks"   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B "isn't the sure-fire smash cult flick its advance buzz suggested, but in its own way, it may be a first - a 'cute' zombie flick which employs subtlety in its humor"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Piecing together a film with a comfortable mix of the funny, horrific and sometimes heart warming is not an easy task, but Wright and Pegg make it look SO easy"   Monsters At Play   Lawrence P. Raffel 3.5/5 "Both genuinely funny and authentically horrifying, it puts the average horror comedy to shame."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh B- "Writer-director Edgar Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg have terrific fun riffing on zombie lore."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 7/10 "This film is like a crossbreeding of George Romero and Mike Leigh. This satire laughs at the tropes of the zombie movie, but even more at the foibles of English life today."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/4 "Dr. Strangelove, Evil Dead 2, Shaun of the Dead"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[Who] said you couldn’t have a zombie romantic comedy? Why can’t the male lead express his undying devotion for his ladylove by bashing dead people in the head...?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/5 "It works best when it treats [the zombies] more as an impediment to be overcome by the sheer Britishness of the characters."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "Watching this slacker store clerk turn into a master zombie hunter to win the woman he loves is a refreshing way to approach the genre."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/5 "Shaun of the Dead’s splattering of scatological jokes and goofy gruesomeness never fully congeals."   Filmcritic.com   Nick Schager "'Shaun of the Dead' is that rarest of birds-a film that not only lives up to its considerable hype, it actually exceeds it."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Pegg and Wright brilliantly send up both the zombie genre and British society by showing how mindless everyday life is--there are zombies all around us!"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "...not only a loving, teasing homage to the Romero Dead films. It's also a superb zombie film in its own right..."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "In this most apocalyptic of genres, Shaun of the Dead is not unlike a ray of unexpected sunshine - even if it has a little red on it."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "A more complex film with a lot more plot and character depth than you would expect of a lowly horror genre film."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "There's nothing like the end of civilization as we know it to rouse a rudderless slacker into action."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3.5/4 "One of the best romantic zombie comedies ever!"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson 3.5/4 "A traditional zombie film introduced as a romantic-comedy and infected with a sly British-cum-"The Simpsons" intelligence and sensibility."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 7/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte  (1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1