HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO HELL: Three more thoughts about Shaun of the Dead–which I loved even more on rewatching!

1. The extra material on the dvd is terrific. Two commentary tracks, which I almost always love; the usual deleted scenes; outtakes; but, fantastically, a section devoted to Plot Holes! The dvd points out three different huge plotholes and, via truly ridiculous comic-book pages, narrates how they might be fixed. I love that they did that.

ETA: Now I’ve listened to the entire director + writer/star commentary, which is fine, and I’m about halfway through the cast commentary, which is hysterical. Good grief, is there anything about this movie I don’t love???

2. This movie didn’t actually hit my best-friendship buttons, because Shaun and Ed are too unequal. The more-competent one (relatively speaking!) is also the more-charismatic. So they don’t work as a Pats-and-Eddie/Harold-and-Kumar/Withnail-and-narrator duo.

3. I know I always whine about how post-Romero zombie movies don’t interest me the way old-school, Haitian-style zombie flicks do. But Shaun‘s antimodernity felt old-school to me.