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Director: Andrew Currie
Starring: K’Sun Ray, Carrie Ann Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Czerny, Sonja Bennett, Jennifer Clement
Fido is an amusing zombie comedy that will gleefully be eaten up by the legions of zombie fans out there. Director and co-writer, Andrew Currie cleverly sets his zombie tale in a 1950s-style society, and this makes the outrageousness of the imaginative story that much better. The actors have a lot of fun with the tongue in cheek dialog and, even for a non-zombie lover like me, this is an entertaining film.
The movie opens with a great 50s style promotional film by the all-powerful Zomcon corporation, which gives the hilarious history of zombie/human relations, which consists of a troubled past of dead relatives rising up to devour their offspring (The Zombie Wars), to the current utopian state of affairs, in which some zombies are used as slaves, and the rest are kept out communities by a fence. Our story centers around little Timmy Robinson, a bullied and neglected little boy, who has no friends until his mom, concerned over not keeping up with the Joneses’, gets the family a zombie (Billy Connelly), which Timmy names Fido. Trouble looms when Fido eats a neighbor, but Timmy and Mom (Carrie Ann Moss) have begun to feel some affection for Fido, who shows a loyalty level that is quite rare in human flesh devouring creatures of any sort, and decide to protect him.
If you missed Fido in the theater (and almost everyone did. Maybe this was a stright to video release), then you should catch it on dvd if you have any interest in zombie comedy, or movies that spoof the 50s. Consider this to be two thirds Pleasantville crossed with one third Dawn of The Dead, and then decide if its for you. Bear in mind, that I didn’t expect to enjoy it and still did.
