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Plot:
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail.
Years ago, the earth pa...( read more 
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![School Children: [singing] In the brain and not the chest. Head shots are the very best.](http://content6.flixster.com/photo/99/64/86/9964864_tmb.jpg)
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:June 28, 2008I thought it was going to provide a deep message about the nature of humanity. I am not sure if it did, but it is great to see 50's clothes and cars. Quirky sense of humor.
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MCT:June 28, 2008
I love me some zombies and I love the 1950's so I was really looking forward to this flick. It's funny, very original and has some good acting from the surprising cast (Carrie-Anne Moss, Bill Connolly, and Tim Blake Nelson). If you like zomidies then you can't miss this one.
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MCT:June 23, 2008Now this one's odd. I rented it because I was bored, and also a sucker for zombie movies. So suppose you live in a screwed up version of the fifties, where you, as a family, are being eyeballed by the neighbours for not having a zombie slave in your household. When the security officer of ZomCorp moves in next door, of course, the time has come to finally get one. For a zombie movie, even a zombie comedy, this is a very tame movie. There's not a whole bunch of killing, blood, or gore. What makes this movie memorable is it's collection of over the top, crazy, stereotypical and/or annoying characters, locations, and plot elements.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
Original black comedy about a boy and his zombie. Keys on what it means to be alive and learning about life in general. Definately corny but it is on purpose as a shout out to the world of Beaver Cleaver if they had zombies as pets and companions who might or might not be under control. Shiny plastic against rotting flesh with a few gore splatters leads to the very definition of quirky.
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MCT:June 22, 2008How long could you watch a movie about a 1950s where suburbians keep zombies as house pets? How long could you watch obnoxious nine-year-olds lead them around the park on leashes before you wanted to jam a pen down your throat? Ten minutes? Fifteen?
Try five. That's how long it took me to realize that I hated "Fido." Painful doesn't even begin to describe watching this movie. The premise was old, the jokes were old, the characters were so exaggerated and fake that they made the people from "Father Knows Best" look nuanced and realistic and the '50s satire was so obvious that it only took me thirty seconds to figure out what the movie was saying. And what was that? That people in the '50s were lifeless conformists? What an enlightening observation! I've only heard it, oh, five thousand times!
And guess what? Shallow themes, obnoxious characters and stale jokes are all that "Fido" has to offer. Which means that after you've cracked "Fido's" deep intellectual nut, started wishing that everybody in the movie would die, and prayed that God would banish writer-director Andrew Curie to the graveyard where indie directors who think that making fun of the fifties is "edgy" go to choke on their inflated hipness, there's no reason to keep watching the movie. You start wishing that you had rented George Romero's 1978 "Dawn of the Dead," a movie that not only said everything that "Fido" tried saying about consumer conformity - only with a lot more wit, grace and subtlety - but actually hit *more* than one note. "Dawn" didn't stop at satire; it went for scares, creepy atmosphere, gross-out gore and most importantly, likeable characters.
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beachpeachposted 222 days ago -
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chaotix567: Uh, people have already seen the movie. For one, it's already been shown at film festivals such as Sundance and the Vancouver International Film Festival. For two, at least in Vancouver (I'm not sure in other cities and countries), it's been on the big screen for five weeks already.
posted 447 days ago -
Everyone here is retarded this movie hasn't even come out yet so how can you rate it!
posted 449 days ago -
Just got done seeing this at sundance. It was a pretty good zombie movie. Reminded me of the video game Stubbs the Zombie.
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