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It's Lassie! Except...Lassie is a zombie! I seriously want to marry this movie. Can I do that? Fido has more in common with Pleasantville and Edward Scissorhands than your average zombie flick, but there were still enough body parts to qualify as horror. Billy Connolly deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance, even if he *did* just grunt through the entire movie and Carrie-Anne Moss was as gorgeous as ever. Excellent acting, excellent movie.
If your into Horror comedies and zombie flicks, you will absolutely adore this film.
Fido has some decent laughs and has an original storyline which you dont quite see in zombie movies. The acting was pretty good. all in all this movie was not exactly what i was thinking of but it was still decent and definitely a fun movie to watch.
This was like no other zombie flick that I have seen in the sense that it combined the "innocent" era of the 1950s and the grim, grittiness of a zombie outbreak. The movie is about a typical nuclear family living in the early 50's after the Zombie Wars. In this scenario the zombies have been modified, via neck bracelet, to be the work force of the entire town thanks to ZomCom. However, when the family's young son accidentally turns off the collar temporality and the zombie kills an old lady; the head of security of ZomCom goes nuts. What this movie does for the zombie genre is provide "zombie sympathy" to the walking dead.
Like most zombie movies, the walking dead are perceived as horrible, vicious, man-eating monsters, however, in this movie when the zombies have the bracelet they are almost human; they have hidden emotions of love and the simple pleasures in life they once had. In this case, Fido, the zombie, eyeballs the housewife as though he has feeling for her, he calms down when he has a smoke and with his collar off he still restrains from eating the little boy and the housewife. Evidenced by these actions we can assume in this movie the zombie, Fido, is not the bad guy, but rather a protector and a friend of the family.
The movie effectively shows the image of the typical Norman Rockwell house and the stereotypical nuclear family. The yellow house with a garage, white picket fence, the stay at home mom with the Jaclyn Kennedy pearls and father who smokes his pipe and plays golf. The set design is beautiful and really stands out in the movie. They have the vintage cars; the costuming was amazing and even the music fits the time era. The production design wasn't your typical indie or even zombie-horror movie, but rather a great experiment with color and editing. It was an overall outstanding achievement.
The acting in this movie wasn't that bad, but it wasn't the good either, but because this movie is supposed to have a calm, innocent feel to it the acting must be the same way. The only real postal-type acting that was good in this movie was by Henry Czerny, who plays Mr. Bottoms the Security Manager of ZomCom. There was great acting by Billy Connolly, who plays Fido and Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Helen Robinson. However, for the supporting roles the actors and actresses mention are the most notable; Time Blake Nelson, who plays Mr. Theopolis, Sonja Bennett, who plays Tammy and K'Sun Ray, who plays Timmy Robinson. But each of these characters has a somber and calm emotion throughout the movie that I think could have been amped by tenser emotions.
There wasn't any real scares in this movie, not even gore except till the end, but this movie makes up for the lack of scares with great zombie characterization and a brilliant achievement in production design. Aside from some okay acting and a radiantly crafted satire piece, this movie was a great "horror" move for anybody who loves zombie comedy movies like Shaun of the Dead. It's not necessarily a parody on zombie flicks, but a new outlook on them. I would recommend this movie to any horror fan, but if your looking for something with a kick and a scare here and there, than you may want to avoid this movie.
Fido is like one of those movies from the fifties with the kid and his dog, but in this version the dog is replaced with a flesh eating monster. The whole premise is based on a great idea and the ending is great. I give this movie ten corpses out of ten corpses.
Posted By: Butterkeuh at 12:15pm, November 1, 2008
this movie is like a cheap disney movie.
but instead of talking animals they put some stupid zombies in it.
this movie is very boring and stupid.
I dont ever wanna watch it again.
Posted By: bigmo_402 at 4:10pm, September 23, 2008
Pretty good movie with decent humor. Worth watching
Posted By: thehorrar at 11:36pm, September 22, 2008
I think that this movie was wonderfully entertaining. It was a highly anticipated movie, and lives up to what most movies add in to day... fill it the the brim of all crap, with CGI.
Billy Connolly you are so damn funny and you don't even speak a word in this movie!!! I just loved FIDO what a unique movie...and in a world full of ZOMBIE movies it's nice to find such a differnt kinda film. I loved the acting and the story and ....HEAD COFFINS LOL!!! I have nothing bad to say about this movie so I'm gonna say GO RENT FIDO IT F-ING ROCKS!!!
This movie gets both a 6/10 rating from me, as well as a 9/10. Here is why:
As a standard horror movie for the standard horror crowd, where action and gore and scares are taken into consideration, this movie WILL bore you. It’s basically a family drama similar to what you’d see on the Lifetime channel, but put in a horror universe. The story and formula are age-old, retreaded hundreds of times. If you’re looking for any originality in the plot structure or the minimal conflicts, you’ll be disappointed. Take away the zombies and you’ll have something just as melodramatic as A Beautiful Mind, tripping on cheese. This is the 6/10.
However, the basic synopsis and idea is pretty original and over-the-top. It’s literally something you and your friends would joke about when you’re half-drunk . . . but that joke actually got a theatrical release. The idea gets a 9/10 from me. The only reason it isn’t perfect is because they could have taken it even further, but they didn’t.
The mix of both is mixed. I thought it was funny, but as with most all comedies, it wasn’t THAT funny. I had my mom and little sister watch it with me and the jokes we made about it were funnier than the jokes scripted. There were moments of utter genius, but there were also moments of pure boredom.
I sincerely hope that other movies take this kind of over-the-top risk and original ideas. I just can’t say it was perfect, or even near it, because of the lack of originality to the plot.
A GREAT family movie. A great movie to watch with a bunch of guys (or girls). A great movie to watch with anyone . . . but if you watch it alone, it will be a bit boring. Other people always make this kind of movie funnier and richer.
I loved the idea and story to this movie. It was so unique and was pretty funny too. Ya there were some parts that really made no sense but to me it really didnt take away from the movie at all. It is worth checking it out.
I watched this movie because my fiance chose it. I didn't expect it to be so funny and twisted. I think that everyone could watch this movie without any problems. It has appeal for EVERYONE, no matter your race, age or horror-toleration.
Excellent.
Posted By: horrorfan1988 at 5:34pm, February 19, 2008
I went into this movie with one mindset. This will either be a stupidly fun time or not. It was fun, but not as fun as I would've liked it to be, but it was good! Worth a watch.
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