Fido 2006

Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: It's a one-gag movie that starts off clever and cute, but wears thin after half an hour, and ultimately is like an excruciating Enzyte commercial for an hour and a half. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: You say, Enough zombies already? No, please, make room for Fido. A shotgun wedding of George Romero and SCTV, it's madly funny -- a treat for moviegoers who don't mind gnawed-off limbs with their high jinks. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's breezy, blood-flecked entertainment, with no aim other than to give you a giggle and a shriek. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A crafty mixture of George Romero and Douglas Sirk, Fido is a boy and his zombie movie that may have an unusually pastoral color scheme but tears into its many satirical targets with the vigor of a freshly reborn flesh-eater. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Fido, which feels original despite borrowing from a half-dozen genres, shouldn't be taken too seriously. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Fido does offer a good number of laughs, along with a healthy serving of gore to satisfy horror fans. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Definitely the most fun you'll have with the undead this week. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The main joke here is that Connolly's Fido, though he never speaks, seems more alive than the rigidly conformist '50s males around him. It's not quite enough to keep Fido more than a slight comedy. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Leave It to Beaver and Lassie meet Night of the Living Dead. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Strangely wholesome, gently splattery and adorably gory. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: Brightly packaged and steadily amusing, even if the script never really develops anything interesting from its high-concept premise. Read more

Rob Nelson, Village Voice: You think they're dead, these zombie-film parodies, but, one after another, they keep lumbering back. Read more