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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0031398218807 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Lionsgate Languages: Manufacturer: Lionsgate MPN: 21880 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Lionsgate Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 23, 2007 Running Time: 92 minutes Studio: Lionsgate Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: It doesn't take long for the hilarity of Fido's central idea to kick in: the world is reeling from the Zombie War, and the undead are being contained in two different ways. Some of them are roaming loose in fenced-off wilderness zones. The rest are, thanks to the good people at the ZomCom corporation, docile and domesticated--indeed, available as house servants for the upwardly-mobile. Such is the case with the Robinson family, a suburban clan who seem to have stepped straight out of an old episode of Lassie. Little Timmy is happy about the new manservant, whom he promptly dubs "Fido," and Fido himself is fine as long as the mechanical collar around his neck doesn't malfunction (in which case he will revert to being a cannibalistic brain-eating zombie). Fido is played, in a stroke of inspiration, by the Scots comedian Billy Connolly, although you wouldn't be able to recognize him without already knowing he's in the movie. Dylan Baker and especially Carrie-Anne Moss are just right as Timmy's parents, who have accidentally wandered out of a John Cheever novel and into a George Romero world. Director Andrew Currie skillfully gets the 1950s satire and the zombie action right, although there's no way to disguise that this premise is too thin to spread out over feature length. For a while, though, Fido hits a stride--a staggering, vacant-eyed stride. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Boy and His Zombie***1/2 Who says zombies can't be converted into useful members of the community? Certainly not the makers of "Fido," who take us to a never-never-land version of the 1950's where the undead have been turned into butlers and servants for the burgeoning middle class. Timmy Robinson is the all-American boy who becomes emotionally attached to the family`s new full-time domestic - a recently resurrected zombie whom Timmy has affectionately dubbed Fido. All of this has been made possible ... Read More Rating:  - Best of the Dead (Truly Unique)Every so often a movie comes along in a particular genre and does things "outside the norm." Fido is such a movie. Yes, it's about zombies. Yes, it's about gut-munching. Yes, it's about survival in a post-apocalyptic world. But that's where the similarities end compared to other end-of-the-world zombie flicks. This movie is more like a cross between Pleasantville and Night of the Living Dead, with a little bit of humor thrown in there as well. ... Read More Rating: - Exceeded ExpectationI have to say, before picking this movie up, I saw all of the praise reveiwers were throwing it's way, but still wasn't sold. I finally caved in when I saw some pretty reliable reviews posted by folks I've met through the horror forum here on Amazon, and broke down and bought it. I finally got around to watching it this past weekend, and was surprised. "Fido" is not only original, it's truly funny. The basic premise is that in the 1950's after a zombie outbreak, a scientist has figured out how to tame ... Read More Rating:  - Could have been so much betterThe idea to make a zombie movie where there under control and a boy owns a zombie as a pet seemed like it has possibilities. Quite frankly, over the last few years, I have become absolutely sick and tired of Zombie and Vampire movies being unleashed on DVD by the truck load. but when a comedy that sounds like something along the lines of "Sean Of The Dead" comes along, I figured this would be good for a laugh. Unfortunately, by the time this movie finished, I thought it could have been so ... Read More Rating: - A instant genre classic!In an alternate 1950's style world, a large cloud of space dust passes through the Earth and causes the dead to rise up from their graves to attack the living. Humans have been killing off these flesh-eating creatures until a brilliant group of scientists whom form a company called "ZomCom" create special devices that can control the living dead and make them nice especially as slaves to human beings as they provide services like delivering mail, cooking, and even as butlers. Average neighborhood ... Read More |
