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Fido (2006)
Topic Started: Apr 12 2013, 06:12 AM (804 Views)
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Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.


I saw this one time a while back and it exceeded my expectations bigtime, haha. I seriously loved its parody of 1950s lifestyles and the 'wholesomeness' of America (as if it was ever really like that) and how it managed to throw zombies into the mix, with people treating the undead as household slaves to do chores for them. It was a pretty good little social commentary on 1940s-60s America (50s especially, of course) and on the zombie subgenre in general. It handled everything well, with okay deaths, likeable characters and some surprises here and there<3. 7.5/10.
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Interesting trivia, the house Fido lived in with the family, is my best friend's sister's house in Kelowna, BC.
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That's so cool! It's like you were a part of the film... In like a... Six degrees of Kevin Bacon way.
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That's the really nice thing with where I live. I get a lot of Six degrees Kevin Bacon thing.
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I wish I could be involved in a six degrees of Kevin Bacon situation. :(
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Sounds like a goosebumps episode.
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This > Almost all Goosebumps things. Blasphemy, sure. But this is mostly great. :P
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^ Don't say nothin' bad about Goosebumps, you filthy ass.
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Oh, I forgot. You got that Peter Pan Syndrome. (coffee)

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I wonder if Peter Pan were gay, would it be called Peter Pansy Syndrome?
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Overall this one was quite a fine if troubling effort. One of the few good points here is the film's overall premise, which is one of the most creative and original ideas used here to contain zombies and their fate here, making an ingenious nature. Managing to turn the creatures into domesticated slaves and treated much like a household pet, forced into doing chores and treated like members of the family is really unique and logical way of dealing with the creatures. Not only that, there's plenty of enjoyable about the manner of treatment brought to ensure this with some rather well-thought-out explanations used to keep that a cohesive part of the story and really grounds this one quite nicely. The action here isn't all that bad either as the fact that the zombies are still threats makes the rampaging zombie through the neighborhood taking out the different townsfolk and the later scene of the team taking out the reanimated creatures in the park and the encounter with the bullies out in the wilderness come off nicely, through the big swarming battle at the compound here makes for some fun times as there's a lot of the action with the swarming creatures getting free, the panic of the workers and the rather great gore here to make for a great time. These here are enough to hold this up against the one true flaw with this one. The main flaw here is the fact that for nearly two-thirds of the running time there's no horror here, with the domestication taking nearly everything scary away from zombies by design being the biggest hurdle here as instead this is replaced with the drama about the kid growing up being bulled and bonding in a friendly manner, the father overcoming his fear of the zombies and the slight romance that occurs between the two which doesn't come close to providing this with any kinds of scares and keeps this one as a drama throughout this. Though it's enjoyable, there's little of this that becomes centered around horror scenes which is really the only thing wrong here even though it's a pretty big issue.
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This is still the cutest zombie movie ever made. :P
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Not a bad flick. Nice way to spend a day recuperating.

My God, Carrie-Anne Moss is radiant in this film. She probably played my favorite character of the movie. My second favorite would have to be Billy Connolly's Fido.

Nice character arcs.

As much as I found myself liking it, I think there could have been more. I don't know.

Right now, as it is, I'd give it a 6 or 7 out of 10.

I really feel the movie should have been shot in black and white, and there could have been more in the horror department. I do get it was more Pleasantville meets zombies than some tense 28 Days Later movie, but Shaun of the Dead manages to be funny and scary at the same time. Especially toward the end.

Overall, though, I'd give this a pass.
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