http://www.zombiecommand.com/reviews/movies/fido-review/ Zombie News, Reviews, Zombie Games and Comics Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.zombiecommand.com/reviews/movies/fido-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6530 Nicholas Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:06:07 +0000 http://www.zombiecommand.com/?p=2252#comment-6530 for some uknown reason i love this movie, its like a movie thats really bad but you still love it for some uknown reason i love this movie, its like a movie thats really bad but you still love it

]]> http://www.zombiecommand.com/reviews/movies/fido-review/comment-page-1/#comment-837 MYMHM Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:32 +0000 http://www.zombiecommand.com/?p=2252#comment-837 I find it interesting that you gleaned a civil rights message out of this movie. Having seen it a couple times now (and having been one of the FEW Americans that saw it in theaters LOL), I found it to be a really capable satire of cold-war paranoia set against the backdrop of the blissfully naive media of the 1950's. I think a lot of our nostalgia for those "simpler times" comes from those early days of family friendly television, but actually studying up on the times, the world lived in fear of nuclear annihilation. We were taught to spy on our neighbors, and to report those who might be "Red Sympathizers". I think Fido does a remarkable job of of using the undead as a metaphor for the "corrupting influences of Communism", and our heroic figures (like the brilliant Czerny) are jingoistic extremes of Americana. I guess all the more interesting that such a skillful lampooning of American history came out of Canada (maybe another reason it wasn't so well received here in the states with a completely unwarranted R rating). Belly laughs may be fewer than Shaun of the Dead, but for those of us in the Nick at Nite generation, there's a lot to like here. I find it interesting that you gleaned a civil rights message out of this movie. Having seen it a couple times now (and having been one of the FEW Americans that saw it in theaters LOL), I found it to be a really capable satire of cold-war paranoia set against the backdrop of the blissfully naive media of the 1950′s.
I think a lot of our nostalgia for those “simpler times” comes from those early days of family friendly television, but actually studying up on the times, the world lived in fear of nuclear annihilation. We were taught to spy on our neighbors, and to report those who might be “Red Sympathizers”.
I think Fido does a remarkable job of of using the undead as a metaphor for the “corrupting influences of Communism”, and our heroic figures (like the brilliant Czerny) are jingoistic extremes of Americana. I guess all the more interesting that such a skillful lampooning of American history came out of Canada (maybe another reason it wasn’t so well received here in the states with a completely unwarranted R rating).
Belly laughs may be fewer than Shaun of the Dead, but for those of us in the Nick at Nite generation, there’s a lot to like here.

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