Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

USA • 2018 • 94m •

• Directed by: Paul Hoen. • Starring: Meg Donnelly, Milo Manheim, Emilia McCarthy, Trevor Tordjman, James Godfrey, Kylee Russell, Kingston Foster, Naomi Snieckus, Serena Evans, Carla Jeffery, Kim Roberts, Tony Nappo, Jasmine Renée Thomas. • Music by: George S. Clinton.

50 years after a zombie apocalypse, Seabrook is a cookie-cutter community brimming with perky conformity. Today, the zombies pose no threat, but are required to live in Zombietown, an isolated, rundown community infused with their unique creative spirit. When zombies are finally allowed to enroll in Seabrook High School, the charming, charismatic zombie Zed, who is determined to play football, meets freshman Addison, who dreams of being a cheerleader - the ultimate form of status in Seabrook. Addison takes a lot of flak for befriending Zed and his zombie friends, but comes to learn that zombies and cheerleaders aren't so different after all.

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One has to remember the target audience for this movie. I'm not even sure the target audience is even for most high school students. It's pretty much for middle schoolers. Many of the jokes and stereotypes, though this isn't a good justification, should be thought of in that light. Without the music and without the lead actors I would have rated this movie a 3. But Meg Donnelly is such a wonderful and charming actress...she makes up for a lot of the bad. Her singing & dancing lifts the rating of the movie by at least 4 points. She's one of the best expressive & most bubbily-charming and natural actresses I have seen in a long time!

Perhaps the most annoying and irritating thing about the movie is how anti-zombie people change their minds virtually every 5 minutes! No way does that happen in real life nor does it show the real inner struggle that the humans have in determining whether to accept zombies or not. What kind of the struggle is it if they just flip a switch every 5 minutes and have a different opinion... human brains simply don't work that way. It is the actual, REAL struggle that this movie should expose, deal with, and resolve.

But the movie isn't simply about people's hatred toward zombies. The broader struggle is society's being against homosexuals, people of color, or any number of other differences not accepted by society, and more specifically, their peers. To trivialize the struggle is to demean it...which defeats the whole purpose of the movie.

Review by PenitentPasser from the Internet Movie Database.

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