Shaun Of The Dead Blu-ray Review

**The News Bot** · 02-10-2009, 1:25 AM

Reviewed by Cas Harlow, 2nd October 2009
Shaun of the Dead has got to be one of the top 10 post-2000 comedies which, for my generation, also makes it arguably one of the best comedies of all time. Not only does it set new standards in recent Brit comedies, but it also trumps many of its US ilk, avoiding the standard tactics of insulting spoof antics in favour of gentle parody, and allowing the filmmaking trio of Wright/Pegg/Frost to both show up the flaws in the movies they love, whilst also showing why they love them in the first place. This kind of satire, done as a respectful homage, works perfectly for the cross-genres that it pokes fun at – romantic comedies and zombie horrors – and it went on to work perfectly for the follow-up Hot Fuzz. This new Region Free US Blu-ray release sports good video and audio, particularly considering the budget of the original production, as well as a bucket of extras that include everything that has previously adorned Home Video releases. It is great that we have finally got a definitive release of this gem, so go and get it now (if you haven’t already). Highly recommended.
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jfsebastian · 03-10-2009, 2:40 AM

Thanks for the excellent review. I was a big fan of Spaced and bemoaned it's short run. I looked forward to Shaun of the Dead hoping for something along similar lines to Spaced and you can certainly see parallels in the writing, performances etc. I think that Pegg's best writing was done in collaboration with Jessica Stephenson on the show. I hope that they will write together again, perhaps on a film using the characters from Spaced. It would be interesting to see what happened to those characters ten years on.

**Stuart** · 09-11-2009, 8:51 AM

I watched the UK version last night and noticed the image is undescanned. ie with dot-by-dot mode enabled I see a 1" black border on each side.

Does the US version exhibit the same problem?

AgentCool · 09-11-2009, 9:56 AM

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Originally Posted by AV Junkie

I watched the UK version last night and noticed the image is undescanned. ie with dot-by-dot mode enabled I see a 1" black border on each side.

Does the US version exhibit the same problem?

It certainly does though I didn't find it too off-putting.