Fido

What’s wrong boy? Is Timmy in trouble?

An excellent start to the Film Festival! Fido proved to be a hilarious satire with an enjoyable story. If there was one worry I had going in, it was that it would turn out to be a funny premise stretched too far. But that wasn’t an issue, as the movie moves along nicely while packing in the laughs. Also an impressive amount of gore/violence; not necessarily Shaun of the Dead level here, but it didn’t back away at times when you thought it might … probably expectations set by Hollywood fare. There were also more than a few instances of “Oh no, that’s so wrong! But so funny!”.

Billy Connolly was great as the title zombie, an impressive performance through grunting, acting with the eyes, and zombie mannerisms. Carrie-Anne Moss nicely pulled off the slightly twisted, 50s-era housewife, a much different role than I’m used to seeing her play.

The crowed really seemed to enjoy it and was generous with the applause. Great show!

As for Borat … we knew that when we were an hour early for Fido and the rush line for Borat had apparently already formed hours earlier, there was no shot. Oh well, I’ll catch it later. As it turned out, the poor folks who did get in only saw about 20 minutes of the movie before the projector broke down. In a strange twist, Michael Moore was in the audience and even tried fixing it since he used to work as a projectionist! The showing has been rescheduled to tonight at midnight, which probably doesn’t please fans who also planned on seeing The Host.