Undescribable Perfection

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Absolutely Fantastic

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Connelly struck a jackpot with this movie. He didn't have to learn any lines. Just got to moan and groan and act like a zombie. A new spin on the zombie genre. Zombies are now being domesticated, being kept under control by special electronic collars. What you pretty much have are dogs that are able to perform menial tasks. Every family now has one of these "pets". What I can't understand is why nobody complains about the inevitable stench you would have from having corpses wandering around your house.

There certainly is no shortage of zom coms these days, but this film in question, Fido is a good one and should satisfy most viewers. Radioactive dust from outer space has caused the dead to rise causing a zombie outbreak and war for survival of the human race. The Zom Con corporation has now found a means to control the zombies with a collar and are now commonly used as household pets and menial workers. This is set in a very tongue in cheek 50's like setting and as such works as a nice blend of horror, comedy and satire. This all works together nicely with a very ambitious plot, good performances and gore. This centers around a family that just got a zombie as a household pet(named Fido)and what that would be like as well as a look into that society. Some have compared this to Shaun Of The Dead. I have found this to have more in common in tone to the video game Fallout, but with less action and a suburban 1950's Leave It To Beaver like setting. On the surface this is a very wholesome movie, but in this ultra superficial society things are much more sinister once you scratch the surface. The only actors I am familiar with are the mother(Carrie Anne Moss via The Matrix) and the father(Dylan Baker via Happiness)and they performed well here as well as the rest of the cast. I would not place Fido alongside classics like The Evil Dead series, Re Animator or Dead Alive. But Fido is a cool little film and a very imaginative and well executed splatter comedy that delivers the goods and is good campy entertainment.

FidoBeing responsible for a pet zombie is a good way for a couple to know if they're ready for a baby.Unfortunately, the couple in this horror-comedy had a little boy before their flesh-eater.Despite her husband's (Dylan Baker) unease around them, Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) brings home a domesticated zombie, Fido (Billy Connolly), whose hunger for flesh is kept in check by a remote-controlled collar.When officials quarantine Fido on account of his feasting of neighbours, young Timmy (K'Sun Ray) sets out to retrieve his putrefied playmate with the help of a previous company employee (Tim Blake Nelson).But the head of the company (Henry Czerny) has other plans for Fido's saviors.Set in an alternate 1950s, this quirky Canadian contribution to the annuals of zombie cinema injects some much needed satire and humor into the undead genre.Incidentally, letting your pet zombie lick your face is a slippery slope.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido.This film combines 1950s propaganda, zombies, the humor of "Shaun of the Dead" and a unique story to create a world that is both funny and fascinating. I did not have high expectations for the movie with its silly title and cover art, but it really grabbed hold of me and impressed me with its depth and character.Is this a buddy film? A story of family values? A comedy? An allegory on class? It could be any number of those things. Heck, if there is a message to this film, it is one that is well-hidden yet decipherable, and different depending on what angle you choose to view it from. You get out of this movie what you bring to it.