Fido

Just wanted to recommend this film real quick. Saw it a few weeks ago at the Nuart and rather enjoyed it. The twist on the zombie genre is that these slow-moving zombies, controlled using technology from the great Zomcon, are now used to fill in manual labor and drone posts, including domestic positions and newspaper routes. The pacing is spot-on and the world that is created has been clearly thought out, from a newsreel that explains how the zombies came to be (The Zombie Wars), to the Returns/Repairs counter at the zombie plant. Very good natured and sweet and fun.

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The Good [all can be viewed at rottentomatoes.com]

• Fido [is] a wildly entertaining comedy. It has as much humor as horror, and a wonderfully wonky way of making its many cogent social critiques.
• For a one-joke movie, Fido does a fine job exploring every possible permutation of that joke.
• It's just a clever, pointed little fable about the price of complacent conformity, slavish worship of the status quo, and trading freedom for the illusion of safety, wrapped in a sugary-sweet, Jordan-almond-colored coating that looks good enough to eat.
• The cleverness of Fido's concept maintains enough charm to want to disregard that its satire is pretty thin.

The Bad ["]

• Fido is a one-joke movie with some good performances and a few good gross-out moments. But it’s not dark enough or sick enough to be a cult favorite.
• The concept is great and the movie has its moments. Just not enough of them.