Sorry, this movie sucks

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This one deserves all the accolades! Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish with great performances, awesome effects, and a fun plot. I was really hooked. I love the actor playing the lead zombie. He was so good, and of course, I love Trinity from The Matrix. She always knocks it out of the park.If you thought zombie movies were dead, think again. They keep finding new ways to make them interesting, and this one doesn't disappoint. The music was well done too and the pacing was fantastic. I was never bored at all despite how many movies I watch a day. I think Fido will have to go on my to-watch list for every Halloween. It's going to be a tradition in my family.

After surviving the zombie apocalypse, a small family in the suburbs receives a zombie helper who begins bonding with their troubled son and forces them to question their commitment to it when a series of deaths are blamed on the creature.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.Rated R: Graphic Violence and children-in-jeopardy.

If you're a zombie-movie fan, you've probably seen the brilliant 'Shaun of the Dead' (and if you haven't – stop reading and watch it now!). On the off chance you haven't caught it yet, I won't go into how it ends, but if you know, you could almost look at 'Fido' as a semi-sequel. Okay, not really, but in principal it's like a continuation.In Fido's world, we appear to still be living in 1950s America. We're never told we are, but everyone still dresses and behaves like they are (plus there isn't an iphone or Twitter account in sight). And, at the beginning of the film, we're treated to some brief (but very funny) black and white newsreel footage informing us that, ten years after the 'zombie wars,' we're now living in a safe society, happily using the undead as servants (courtesy of collars which control their flesh-eating impulses).It's almost an ideal world. You never have to do your own laundry again, thanks to a kindly rotting corpse who will do it all for you (assuming you don't mind your laundry slightly torn and hideously unfolded). If truth be told, the undead, while willing/forced to comply, they aren't that good yet at the tasks they've been assigned.And then we're introduced to the Robinsons – the perfect 'nuclear' American family, living a perfect life – zombie free. However, pressure on society dictates that every good house needs its own undead butler, therefore they bow to public pressure and purchase the zombiefied form of Billy Connolly. What follows is a tale of friendship between the family (or most of them) and their 'pet zombie' who little Timmy Robinson christens 'Fido.' Of course no relationship ever runs smoothly and it's never easy when one party has to wear a collar that prevents him from tearing innocent old ladies apart every time the collar fails.Basically, if you're a zombie fan, not only should you have watched 'Shaun of the Dead,' but you're also probably aware of George Romero's classic 'Dawn of the Dead.' Apart from the cool action sequences, a lot of people admired the social satire he wove in, commenting on a consumer society. Well, if you're in the mood for more than just gore (of which Fido also delivers on), you may enjoy the numerous swipes the film takes at peer pressure, people's frailties about not being good enough and even some touching moments (partially played out by a character that can only groan).I read online that Billy Connolly watched to play the titular role because he was intrigued by the opportunity to portray a sympathetic character with only expressions and movements, i.e. no dialogue. I'm not normally a fan of Billy's acting (I thought he should have stuck to stand-up comedy!), but here he hits every note, as does every one of the cast. A fair proportion of the film is taken up with children and their relationships and it's easy to hate child actors, but here their presence never detracts from the story.What you have here is a refreshing take on a (currently overused) genre with gore, heart and, above all, enough laughs to put it up there with the great 'Shaun.'

Following a '50s style sci-fi zombie apocalypse, ZOMCOM develops a collar to tame the zombies for domestic use. Communities live in fenced off middle American towns. The Robinsons (Carrie-Anne Moss, Dylan Baker, Kesun Loder) get a new zombie (Billy Connolly). Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) is the head of security for ZOMCOM who has just moved into the neighborhood with his daughter Cindy (Alexia Fast).It is a really cool idea. However after the really cool idea, it needs something more compelling. It doesn't have the needed biting comedy. It cruises along with a ultra-light monotone satire. The odd thing here is that they have muzzled Billy Connolly who is one of the funniest comedic voice around. It's not funny enough to be a light comedy if you're going to use zombies. It needs to have a much darker undertone, and it's never exciting enough as a zombie horror movie.