Having a bad day then, are we?

Fun with zombies: Shaun of the Dead.

Ever had one of those days when you wish the world would just go away? Dave and Andrew did. And it did.

To clarify: Andrew is a nervy agoraphobic who can't leave his filthy house which is between two flyover motorways. Andrew is his anti-social and unpopular friend.

On the day Dave leaves Andrew to move in with his girlfriend he is accused of embezzlement. Turns out she did it but has left a paper trail that leads unequivocally to Dave. Meanwhile, Andrew gets locked out of the house and panics. He is rescued by a girl guide.

Dave, defeated, crawls back to Andrew's and as they are trying to make up, the guide's mother arrives and accuses Andrew of kissing the girl. The police come for Andrew as the police arrive for embezzler Dave. And that's just the first 10 minutes of the Canadian indie movie Nothing.

As teargas comes through the windows they wish the world would go away. Then everything falls silent. Outside their door is nothing, an endless white nothing. The world has gone away.

Co-written by the actors Dave Hewlett and Andrew Miller, and directed by Vincenzo Natali who did The Cube (in which Hewlett and Miller appeared), Nothing is funny, full of CGI and surreal conjunctions, and might even raise a philosophical question or two.

From the collage opening sequences to Dave and Andrew wandering around in the endless white nothingness - "like tofu, which ironically tastes of nothing," says Andrew - this is a film which remains visually clever, even after the story starts to pall.

The pair are losers but their predicament becomes their saving grace: anything they don't like they can wish away. You can guess the logical extension of that. Stick around after the credits for a punchline.

Another guy who had a bad day was Shaun, an aspiring DJ who has settled on life down at the pub. He's dumped by his girlfriend (so heads to the pub) but decides to get his life together.

He hadn't counted on the zombies.

Shaun of the Dead had a well-deserved long run in cinemas and what separates it from other zombie flicks is its knowing, deadpan humour. When he's about to flick his vinyl collection at the zombies to take their heads off, Shaun worries about which ones to keep: Prince's Batman? Flick it. Stone Roses' Second Coming? I quite liked it, he says of the critically panned album.

There's a subtle running gag about drunks, the unemployed, commuters and junkies being zombies, too. Shaun is as gauche as David Brent, and there's an excellent support cast. And Bill Nighy.

With plenty of extras including out-takes, commentary by actor Simon Pegg, posters, a featurette and much more, this is a good value disc which will keep you and your loser friends amused.

Oh, I forgot to mention if there are extras on Nothing. No, there is nothing. Of course.