Steineded How sad is this?

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Dalbert Pringle You'd think that with a title like "Black Sheep" there'd be at least one genuinely "black" coloured sheep in the whole herd who was the biggest, meanest, and, yes, "blackest" bugger of them all. Yeah. And when it came to the merciless slaughtering of humans, this vicious beast would be the one who couldn't be stopped so easily - No - Not like to others.And besides all of that - I don't care one bit if the creature is literally gnashing its teeth and foaming at the mouth like a lunatic - Dull, innocuous barnyard animals (such as sheep) make for the lamest, most unconvincing movie-monsters imaginable.Set in the beautiful New Zealand countryside - Black Sheep's story deals directly with what happens when genetically altered sheep develop a rabid thirst for human blood and go on a murderous rampage, attacking one and all with a vicious frenzy.Yes. Black Sheep was horrific and gruesome. But its intended humour didn't even come anywhere near to matching that monstrous level of ferocity at all. (If only it did) I found that all of the bloody carnage (and the story, in general) (what there was of one), quickly became quite tiresome, and, yes, predictable.

Leofwine_draca New Zealand was the country that made Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD back in 1992. That film still stands strong as the goriest movie ever made, a near-perfect mix of gross-out humour, Kiwi insanity and copious bloodshed. When I saw that BLACK SHEEP, a similarly-themed film about genetically engineered sheep with an appetite for human flesh, was another Kiwi horror comedy, I was hoping it might reach near the standard of Jackson's work. Instead I found a film that simply ripped off that earlier, better movie – along with lots of other stuff like SHAUN OF THE DEAD. This is derivative film-making at its worst, totally lacking in any kind of inspiration and always striving to aim for the lowest common denominator.As the film begins with an unexplained incident – a kid kills and skins a sheep, wearing its bloody fleece to scare his little brother – you know that not much intelligence has gone into the script. Despite some typically pleasant New Zealand backdrops, the small scale antics that play out are utterly familiar and therefore pretty dull. Nobody in the unknown cast makes any kind of impression, and I was just waiting for a touch of originality or inspiration to come along and make me entertained. It never happened.The sheep bite people, transmitting a kind of virus that turns humans into rubbery sheep monsters. There's a last-reel attack by a flock of sheep full of cheesy gore effects with severed limbs and guts-aplenty, once again heavily indebted to BRAINDEAD. There's even a mutant lamb not too dissimilar from the Sumerian rat monster in the Jackson movie. The final solution to tackle the menace is about as lowbrow and unfunny as you can get, and never once did the film manage to raise itself from the doldrums. A below-par script, uninteresting performances (Danielle Mason is pretty but bland), laboured effects – from Weta workshop, the team who worked on LORD OF THE RINGS no less – and an overruling predictability make this one to miss.

morrison-dylan-fan Originally reading in some reviews that this movie was a terrible knock- off of Edgar Wright's terrific Zom-Com Shaun Of The Dead,I decided to at last pick up the super-cheap DVD,when I saw a short clip of the film,which made it look,that it was worth "becoming a sheep" and taking a look at the attack of the woolly jumpers.The plot:Returning 15 years after running away from his town due to the tragic death of his father,and also due to his brother (Angus Oldfield) killing Henry's much-loved pet sheep. (which led to Grant developing a phobia about being round sheep at all) Henry's decided to pay a final visit to the town,so that he can give his brother all of the rights to the family farm.Unknown to Henry,Angus has been secretly using the farm to genetically create the "ultimate Sheep".Attempting to throw their latest failed attempts away,Angus and his group of scientist are caught by surprise,when two Eco-warriors, (Grant and Expiriance) appear and run off with a half dead embryo,which soon leads to the residents of the sleepy village into transforming in a bunch of murderous,mutated sheep.View on the film:Along with Nathan Meister's sweet reluctant hero,and Peter Freeney pure boo-hiss villainy as Angus Oldfield,the cute Danielle Mason shines in every scenes she's in as over kooky,"Awe shucks" echo-warrior Expireance,who Mason does well at showing go from a pulling at heart strings Eco-warrior,into becoming a gun toting,Sheep killing machine!Whilst the movie does have an echo message at the centre of it,writer/director Jonathan King makes sure that "the message" never gets in the way of the terrific, hilarious gory laughs on offer.Showing the tremendous visual effects by Weta in their full blood & guts glory.King impressively makes sure that the "invasion" of the sheep never becomes boring by introducing a new element to the story at the perfect interval,from the Sheep suffering from a bad case of methane gas,to a savage and hungry An American Werewolf-inspired WereSheep.Sadly,after having used the first hour of the movie to build up to an epic man v monster Sheep final,King instead,unbelievably has the ending go to a painfully unfunny "and that's it" super-quick ending,which sadly puts a large stain on an otherwise far from sheepish Horror Comedy.

insomniac_rod Disgusting, entertaining, lots of gore, cool mutant sheeps, and a deep message for modern society. I enjoyed "Black Sheep" because I took it for what it is: a fun movie that shouldn't be taken seriously. It offers violence, black humor and plenty of references to Horror movies (loved specially the "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Shining" tributes).It may not appeal for everyone but it surely ranks high on entertainment factors.Watch it and enjoy. It's mindless but gory fun.P.S. I love the blonde girl. She's dumb looking for that's my kind of girl.