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Fido (2007) DVD Review
Fido (2007) DVD Credits:
Fido (2007) Directed by:
Andrew Currie
Fido (2007) Written by:
Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak, Dennis Heaton
Fido (2007) Cast:
Carrie Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Czerny, Dylan Baker, K'Sun Ray
Fido (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Fido (2007) DVD Release Date:
22nd October 2007
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Fido (2007) Synopsis:

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants - a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control… but do they? Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. At eleven, Timmy already knows the world is phony baloney - Mom and Dad just won't admit it. Now ZomCon's head of security has moved in across the street, and Timmy's Mom refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn't have a zombie of her own. When she brings a zombie servant home, Timmy discovers a new best friend, and names him Fido. And even though Dad has a bad case of zombie-phobia, Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does eat the odd person...

Fido (2007) DVD Review:

The 1950s are often looked back on as a perfect decade. With the country doing better financially, out of war, and a strong focus on family values, we often gloss over the paranoia and the underbelly of the 1950s. Fido exposes this underbelly with the use of a fictional zombie world, also able to use the zombies to make this a simple story of a boy and his pet. Like My Dog Skip with zombies, Fido is the story of a boy and his dog, the only difference is that his dog is a flesh-eating zombie only controlled by a special collar inhibiting the urge for flesh. Zombies are indispensable to the society, acting out simple tasks that the living can’t be bothered with, such as chores, deliveries, cleaning and countless other jobs supervised by a collar and zombie control. The image-important 1950s is the perfect setting for Fido, showing how even the worst of situations can be handled in a respectable and pleasant matter. Housewives are no longer concerned with having their very own washing machine, but have another accessory to show how well-to-do they are. Zombies are live-in helpers who don’t need food, water or respect.

With the use of an educational film about Zomcon, the company controlling and domesticating zombies within the fences of the safe-city. It also gives us the usual explanation about zombies with radiation as the cause for the dead’s inability to stay that way. This is a fictional world rather than a futuristic one, and it takes on the recovery of ordinary lives as it would happen soon after a zombie war. The neighborhood in which the humans live still carries all of the nostalgia of the 1950s despite zombie inclusion into society, a brilliant choice considering the way the golden era is often portrayed and how in this film children are taught to shoot guns while singing rhymes about headshots rather than jumping rope or playing hop-scotch. The world is against zombies, but unafraid to use them to their advantage. For this reason Fido may be the first politically correct zombie film, which teaches us that zombies are people too, even if they eat human flesh.

Timmy doesn’t fit in that well, bullied at school and misunderstood at home, until he gets his very own zombie. His father neglects him to play golf and his mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) is only interested in the family’s image, concerned more with the cleanliness of Timmy’s shirt than his loneliness or difficulty making friends, so he makes a friend with the one creature that has nowhere else to go. His new friend/pet Fido (Billy Connolly) helps him with the bullies, so Timmy decides to protect him when a collar dysfunction causes the zombie helper to eat a neighbor. Timmy sets out to cover the tracks of his new friend, who is also developing an odd relationship with Timmy’s mother in the absence of his golf-loving father. When the truth is discovered and Fido is taken away from Timmy and sent to work for Zomcon, the young boy enlists the help of his strange neighbor (Tim Blake Nelson) who used to work for the company and a neighborhood girl whose father runs it.

Special features on the DVD are actual quite extensive with storyboards, featurettes and photos galleries. The Fido Family Portraits has three photo galleries, with storyboard comparisons, the make-up transformation of Billy Connolly, and even a narrated and illustrated story of Fido as if it were a children’s tale. While this and several other features are unique and fitting for the film, there are also many generic features as well. The blooper reel has stronger moments and the commentary by Don MacDonald is great for anyone interested in the score. It is a detailed and intelligent commentary although richly technical and only on select scenes.

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Fido (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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