Fido (2006/Lionsgate)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: D
In George
Romero’s underrated Dawn Of The Dead,
there is a sad ugly moment where we learn that people-turned-zombies were being
trained, possibly to be pets. It is
something sadly not followed up on in Land
Of The Dead and who knows if it will be in his next film. Andrew Currie tries to make a comedy out of
it in Fido, but if Gene Siskel were
still alive, he might dub it a “dog of all time” in its idiotic treatment of an
interesting premise.
It looks,
sounds, feels and plays out in such a phony way, it looks like a bad 1980s
cable telefilm, but with a lobotomy.
Despite a cast that includes Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, Tim Blake
Nelson and Henry Czerny, it is forgettable, a one-joke 92 minutes without a
laugh and dies quickly.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is soft, has some motion blur and is not
memorable, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix never impresses either and some of
the recording shows limits in its fidelity.
Extras include two feature length audio commentaries, deleted scenes
with the same, stills, DVD-ROM convention piece, making of featurette and
original theatrical trailer.
- Nicholas Sheffo
