FidoDark, potent, gory  July 3,
2007 2:58:53 PM
FIDO: A little bit of everything silly.
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At the end of
Shaun of the Dead
, after the streets have been cleared of flesh-eating hordes, a best-friend-turned-zombie is chained up in a back yard as sort of a pet. If you carried on from there, set your movie in a Cleaver-happy 1950s enclave, and mixed in a McCarthy-esque political climate that perpetuates fear, you’d have
Fido
. In the aftermath of the great Zombie Wars, order is maintained by a Halliburton-like conglomerate called ZomCon, and well-to-dos have the undead as slave labor and servants held in check by ZomCon radio control collars. Timmy (K’Sun Ray) is a schoolyard outcast who bonds with the family’s new walking-dead title butler (Billy Connolly in a film-making performance). But what about the creepy sexual tension that develops between Timmy’s mom (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Fido while dad (Dylan Baker) looms as a backbiting pissant? And that rumor about Fido’s eating the next-door neighbor? The whole shebang may sound silly, but director Andrew Currie stews together gore, social commentary, screwball camp, and dark comedy with savory potency.
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- Comic timing
- Lessons from the build-them-up, tear-them-down Boston firefighter backlash
- Archaic laws are often funny, but they’re no laughing matter
- Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture
- Obama can still win the Democratic nomination — but first, he has to get over himself
- These guys couldn't turn on a radio
- Lessons from the build-them-up, tear-them-down Boston firefighter backlash
- Why steroids, spying, and all those other sports scandals are actually good for fans
- Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture
- Zeitgeist’s compelling Kentucky Cycle; Double Edge’s Republic of Dreams
- Jonathan McPhee and the Longwood Symphony perform Beethoven's Ninth
- If you want to lose the ‘fright wig,’ try ditching your shampoo
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A surreal oddity that jells
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A gay, Middle Eastern Romeo and Juliet
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What it takes to warm up to sociopathic leads
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The dumber the better
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A comic mish-mash
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A load of poppycock
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Gritty enough
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A lively boneyard romp
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An authentic script on teen angst
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A visually lush adaptation
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- A layered art-world exploitation
- Introducing reggaetón
- Gritty, macho, and lacking in grace
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- Homosexuality in the Bible
- Vaseline and sock monkeys
- A smirky and sore temptation
- A documentary of differences
- Darjeeling is limited but rewarding
- Clooney cleans up as Michael Clayton
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