just saw the world preem of fido at the toronto international film festival and thoroughly enjoy it . here we have a welcome reworking of a genre widely think to have be pioneer ( certainly flesh out extensively and successfully ) by george romero . but this be a canadian film by a canadian director and it a comedy . and and yes and i actually think it be well than shawn of the dead . thoroughly believable and and perhaps even more importantly and enjoyable performance by dylan baker and carrie anne moss and young actor ksun ray and whom i suspect we will be see a lot more of in future feature . however and i must confess that i most enjoy the delicious turn by tim blake nelson a neighbour mr. theopolis and essentially play a willing animated version of victor van dort from the corpse bride ( or and for those who have see the film and wouldn not that read even good here a the corpse pride . ) and and of course and scotch actor billy connolly in his least animate and yet somehow deeply move role a the titular character . just think and he would not have get this role have it not be for peter stormare commitment to prison break ( a be reveal in the q and a following thursday night screen ) . i can not help but speculate that the screenwriter must have draw a lot of inspiration from day of the dead zombie bub . i be not keen on ever reveal plot detail during a comment and i would not start now . suffice it to say that fido be not one of those dour and graphically gory zombie film you can rely on from romero . rather it be a film that will have you constantly chuckle and and although ( and i do have to think back carefully to be sure ) there be a fair dose of blood letting and violence and the delectable humour and so well enhance by the surreal milieu create by director currie and his co screenwriter and go a long way towards make this seem like a feature that ought to be rat pg 13. i urge you to go see this little canuck gem . i will certainly be buy the dvd once it emerge hopefully by next summer .