It starts out with one of those wonderful 1950's propaganda videos. You know like this:
It tells how a nuclear cloud enveloped the earth and started causing the dead to reanimate. This started the "Zombie Wars". During this time a scientist created a "collar" of sorts that could be placed on the zombie to ease his hunger for human flesh. And thus ZomCom was born. ZomCom controls anything zombie related, including the selling of zombies as slaves. In this alternate world where zombies are "tamed", for lack of a better word, zombies take on the rolls of maintenance men, delivery boys, maids, butlers, landscapers and the such. It is after this short propaganda film that we meet one of the movies key characters, Timmy. Timmy's mother, Helen (played by Carrie Ann Moss), purchases a zombie in spite of her husband Bill's (played by Dylan Baker) very real and very obvious zombie phobia. When the zombie protects Timmy from some bullies that have been giving him a hard time, he befriends him and starts to call him Fido. Fido's collar is damaged by an elderly neighbor and he attacks her. This starts another small zombie outbreak. Timmy hides the fact that Fido did anything wrong, but the head of security at Zomcom, figures out that Fido was the cause of all of it and takes Fido back to the factory. Timmy learns from a friend that Fido was not killed, and goes on a rescue mission at Zomcom. When the head of security finds Timmy there he takes him out to the Wild Zone, which is were zombies without collars are held. Timmy's father, who has been a pretty absent father, enters with Fido to rescue Timmy. In the ensuing tussle, Bill is shot and killed. Fido then attacks the head of security killing him. After leaving Zomcom, they all basically live happily ever after.
Okay with that brief synopsis, let me weigh in with my opinion. Even though the movie had combined two of my favorite things, I think they could have done a little more with it. What I mean is, if you are going to change the mythology of the zombie, then go all out with it. Don't just change it a little. Explain why it is possible to keep a zombie as a pet and why Fido acted pretty much like a dog with Timmy. They could have done a flashback scene or went a little more in depth as to why Bill was a zombophobe (I am aware that it is not a word) rather than just alluding to it or glancing over the issue. In my opinion it is key to explain why Bill is the way he is and what leads him to rescue Timmy at the end. There were a lot of holes in the story line and personally I was left with a lot of questions. But all in all it was a good movie and for a movie of its kind, well worth the watch. Especially if you have a dark sense of humor!
Watch for Next Week's Review! I will be watching one horror movie and posting its review every Friday!
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