Shaun Of The Dead

I finally got around to watching Shaun of the Dead yesterday. I liked it a lot. It made me laugh, it made me sad, it made me jump (once) and it made me drive slowly home in the dark in case I hit a zombie.

What I really love about it is that it is so English. I wonder if the humour will translate to America? If you really want to know what life is like in English suburbs for late twenty somethings, it's like this (minus the zombies). The cups of tea, the pub every night, the crap job, the playstation, the relationship going nowhere. Brilliant.

If you haven't heard of Simon Pegg or Edgar Wright you should check out their other work: one of the best sitcoms ever Spaced, and the wonderful first series of sketch show Big Train (the second series is rubbish). Also worth watching is Black Books which stars Dylan Moran who is David in Shaun of the Dead.

In fact whilst I'm on the subject the cast reads like a who's who of current British comedy, even if some of them are just cameos....Lucy Davies, Dylan Morgan, Martin Freeman, Matt Lucas, Tamsin Grieg....