SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Connelly struck a jackpot with this movie. He didn't have to learn any lines. Just got to moan and groan and act like a zombie. A new spin on the zombie genre. Zombies are now being domesticated, being kept under control by special electronic collars. What you pretty much have are dogs that are able to perform menial tasks. Every family now has one of these "pets". What I can't understand is why nobody complains about the inevitable stench you would have from having corpses wandering around your house.

The most hilariously refreshing Zombie film since "Return of the Living Dead." You just know with a name like "Fido," that this film is going to be a die laughing affair, & "Fido" like faithful dog, never disappoints! Yes, there is some elements borrowed from "Shaun of the Dead," as far as Zombie's being incorporated into society as workers, but where "Shaun of the Dead" skims over the subject, "Fido" goes right for the gut & the brain. Where "Shaun of the Dead" relies partially on crude comedy to get it's laughs, "Fido" is the thinking Zombie's comedy. It is also a love story, a pet story, a murder mystery, a story of Zombies being more than just brain munching cadavers. Here the Zombie's are the good guys & cooperate villain Zomcon, is the bad guys.As "Fido" unfolds, it's a funny & touching comedy that has brains to spare, not for eating, but for thinking. After all, Zombies have feelings too.

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido.This film combines 1950s propaganda, zombies, the humor of "Shaun of the Dead" and a unique story to create a world that is both funny and fascinating. I did not have high expectations for the movie with its silly title and cover art, but it really grabbed hold of me and impressed me with its depth and character.Is this a buddy film? A story of family values? A comedy? An allegory on class? It could be any number of those things. Heck, if there is a message to this film, it is one that is well-hidden yet decipherable, and different depending on what angle you choose to view it from. You get out of this movie what you bring to it.

I feel confident in stating that Fido is the most charming movie that will ever be made about flesh-eating zombies. Now, if you think the words "charming" and "flesh-eating zombies" should never be used in the same sentence, this might not be the film for you. If you're not bothered by such a dissonant incongruity, you'll find Fido to be delightful on many levels. This story is set in 1950s America. Not the real era, of course, but a 1950s America where a cloud of radiation came from outer space to cover the Earth and cause anyone who dies to rise and seek to feast upon the living. After a desperate war against the walking dead, humanity has been able to secure itself behind protective fences and has created a technology that can control zombies. As long as their special collars are working, the monsters are docile and capable of following orders. So, they're put to work as gardeners, dog walkers, paper boys, house servants and anything else you can imagine. In this bizarre world, the movie focuses on two families - The Robinsons and the Bottoms. Helen and Bill Robinson (Carrie-Anne Moss and Dylan Baker) and their son Timmy (K'Sun Ray and yes, his parents should be horsewhipped) are the stereotypical 1950s nuclear family. Helen is a homemaker who is consumed with appearances and keeping up with the Joneses. Bill is the emotionally closed-off breadwinner who only thinks he's in charge of the family. Timmy is the typical scamp who has to deal with bullies in school and has a crush on the new girl in class. That new girl is Cindy Bottoms (Alexia Fast). She's just moved to town with her parents and her dad John (Henry Czerny) is the head of security of Zomcon, the company that created the zombie-controlling collars and essentially functions as the corporate overload of this strange society. Worried that the Bottoms are rich enough to have 6 zombie servants, Helen goes out and finally buys a zombie (Billy Connoly) for the Robinson family. Despite Bill's deep dislike for the idea, for reasons that become clear in the film, Helen and Timmy form a bond with their zombie servant. Timmy even names him Fido and treats him like a pet dog. Unfortunately, Fido's collar temporarily malfunctions and he kills the neighborhood's busybody old lady. That sets in motion a chain of events that has Zomcon take Fido away and forces Timmy to team up with his next door neighbor Mr. Theopolis (Tim Blake Nelson), a man with his own odd relationship with the undead, to rescue Fido and bring him back home. This is a very, very clever film. In fact, while multiple writers is usually a sign of a poor story, the three men who collaborated on Fido came up with one of the better written movies I've watched in a long, long time. Fido isn't just an amusing comedy about zombies. It also creates one of the most well thought out fictional realities you'll ever see. The movie is just packed with little touches that reflect what it would be like to actually live in the 1950s if the living dead were real. For example, instead of life insurance, people have funeral insurance. That's so when you die, someone will cut off your head and bury you so you don't come back as a zombie. But Fido is also a good natured parody of those boy-and-his-dog films like Lassie. You can't help but laugh when Timmy gets trapped somewhere and Fido has to go for help. T hat's not all, though. Fido is also a gentle parody of modern films about the 1950s, with Helen being that isolated and unfulfilled housewife who becomes emotionally drawn to her black gardener or what have you. Except the man she turns to when her husband can't make her happy isn't a man at all, it's a zombie.Fido is a marvelous example of how twisted popular culture has become. It's a comedy about zombies that parodies a genre of films from the 1950s and a genre of films about the 1950s, all the while creating a fictional reality with the attention to detail of an obsessive-compulsive Dungeons and Dragons fanatic. Admittedly, the bigger a fan you are of Romero-type zombie stories, the more you will love Fido. But even if those horror movies aren't you cup of tea, there's a delightfully absurd sense of fun in this film that you still might enjoy.