A romantic comedy. With zombies.

We went to see Shaun of the Dead last night. If you liked Spaced, you're bound to love this movie - it's been written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, two men behind Spaced, and it stars lot of the actors from the series too. Indeed, the main character Shaun is played by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson makes an appearance too.

Anyway, the film. Plot is quite simple: people start turning into zombies and Shaun and his friends need to survive the experience. I was slightly worried whether the crew was going to be able to make an entire good film when their background was making half an hour TV episodes, but fear not, the film held together very well. The jokes were funny, acting was hilarious, characters brilliant... Editing and direction was very fast and clever, and the story was original in it's own right - the end solution was to my knowledge a first of it's kind what comes to zombie movies (but I might be wrong too - zombie films are not exactly my speciality).

It's also a very British film - the whole environment of pubs and cornershops and suburbia was all very British, and I have to say that this might be best comedy coming out of this litttle island since Monty Python. Just go and see it, you won't regret it.