Fido

Oh, how I wanted to love this. A comedy/horror film about domesticated zombies. What's not to love about that? Well, a lot of it actually. Fido is by no means terrible. It is just so mediocre that I can't help but feel disappointed. There was so much that could have been done with Fido, I'm surprised it decided to stick to the same jokes and skimp on any real social commentary. It tries, but never really takes advantage of the opportunity. Maybe Andrew Currie, a writer and the director of Fido, should reexamine George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead for an example of zombie social commentary (zosocom?). But he does have some fun with his characters, building an interesting enough character out of Fido himself, the zombie a middle class family buys as a...well, slave essentially. The character never speaks and instead just grunts, as zombies are ought to do, yet audience's will probably care more for Fido than any of the other characters, which is a testament to that one character, yet kind of a sad statement for the human characters surrounding him. In the end, there are so many zombie films, one disappointment just leaves room for dozens of others to surpass.

Genre - Comedy/Horror (2.25)

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