there be a vogue for the past few year for often a not ironic zombie relate film and as well a other medium incarnation of the flesh eating resurrect dead . fido be a film that either an attempt to cash in on that and simply a manifestation of it and or both and it fall squarely into the category of ironic zombie . the joke here be that we get to see the walk dead in the contrast context of a broadly stereotype and squeaky clean and alternate history ( we be in the wake of a great zombie war and and the creature be now be domesticate a slave ) version of a 1950s suburb . it a moderately funny concept on it own and and enough perhaps for a five minute comedy sketch and but it can not hold up a feature film on it own . the joke that rot corps for servant be incongruous with this idealized version of a small town be repeat over and over again and and lose all effectiveness . the soundtrack relentlessly play sunny tune while zombie cannibalize bystander . the word zombie be constantly insert into an otherwise familiarly homey line for a cheap attempt at a laugh . the very broadness and artificiality of the representation of the nineteen fifty here can not help but irritate me . it be so stylized and in it evidently pleasantville inspired way and that it be more apparent in wave marker of it 1950s ness around than actually bear any resemblance to anything that might have happen between 1950 and 1959. there be something obnoxiously sneer about it and a if the film be brag emptily and thoughtlessly about how more open and down to earth and and superior the 2000s be . because the character be such broad representation of pop culture 1950s type and it difficult to develop much emotional investment in them . each have a few character trait throw at him or her helen be obsess with appearance and and bill love golf and his haunt by have have to kill his father but they remain quite two dimensional . performance within the constraint of this bad writing be fine . the best be billy connolly a fido the zombie and who in the tradition of boris karloff in frankenstein actually impart character and sympathy to a lumber green monster who can not speak . there be little bit of unsubtle allegory throw around to commodity fetishism and racism and classism and war paranoia and et cetera and but none of it really work on a comprehensive level and and the filmmaker don while t really stick with anything . unfortunately and this film doesn not really get past sticking with the flimsy joke of look . zombie in leave it to beaver . for a good hour and a half .