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

i think i would be racist towards the zombies

Imagine you're a young actor who just got the lead in a Disney Original musical, just so close to being the next Zac Efron, and you open the script and read the line "who's the zombie? I'm the zombie. And this zombie's playing some ball!"

The fact that the metaphor would have been infinitely better off the zombies just never ate people and propaganda was just pushed around saying they did

Zed: I’m separated from society for being a Zombie. Addison: I’m….-sniffles- a blonde.

this movie says as much about our society as that one pepsi commercial where kendall jenner takes a break from a photoshoot to save a street protest... by handing one of the crowd control officers a can of pepsi 💀

It's always the power plants causing zombies

18:57 Imagine your whole school is freaking out from flesh eating monsters getting out of control and then some random cheerleader just rips off her wig

There’s a really great show called In the Flesh (that only got to run for two seasons rip) about the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse where the zombies have been “cured” but they have to have to take medication consistently or they’ll revert back to their mindless state. There’s a lot of tension from people who don’t want them back because they ate people, they have to wear contact lenses and makeup to blend in, and a lot of the zombies have ptsd from the entire experience. It’s very interesting. Also it’s not treated as a one-to-one allegory, but in the places where it’s analogous to anything it’s about being queer rather than racism. So the premise can be done. Just not like this 😅

It's actually incredible that Disney made a movie that both preaches acceptance and also justifies racism

“theyre just people with green hair” “dont you eat people?” the duality of dan

“Think think brainblast” LMFAO JUST FELL OFF MY CHAIR 13:40

This could be a really good psychological thriller where the zombies are conflicted about whether they’re the same as before they died, fighting to keep their loved ones from before the accident in their lives… the guilt about the things they did that they barely remember…

I love that half-zombie mode is completely berserk, superhuman strength and speed, while full-zombie mode is just like, mildly infuriated and barely able to walk. Makes total sense.

I love how he guessed that Addison is tiny bit Zombie, but the truth is it takes two other movies to find out she's actually half Alien, which is so much more stupid than the part Zombie idea.

I can tell you from my daughter having a "Z-O-M-B-I-E-s" themed birthday part the songs are NOT unforgettable....I wish they were.

I feel I need to point this out. "Anything different is bad and we hate you if you are" is beyond racism; instead, it falls into the category of FASCISM

I think the backstory really muddies the whole “race allegory” this movie is going for, because it makes the situation far more complicated. I mean, the zombies apparently killed and ate people, and the only thing stopping them from doing it again is an electronic band. I’m pretty sure that’s a scary situation for everyone, both zombie and human, and it makes a conflict resolution way more difficult than I think this movie can manage. As an alternative, they could’ve made zombies just rise out of the ground one day. They don’t kill anyone, they’re just a medical anomaly where the dead are reanimating. But give the humans a lot of false preconceptions about zombie culture based off of legends and their depictions in media. This could not only do the race allegory better, but also show how racist depictions in media can affect how people view a certain race.

I’m really glad Danny highlighted how the racism analogy fundamentally does not work. The same issue applies to most racism allegories in fiction because the stand in for minorities is always mutants, aliens, etc, but that comparison will always fall short because in the real world minorities literally have zero differences beyond superficial aesthetics. Even if the zombies never ate people the allegory still doesn’t work because they are still on some level physiologically different to humans in a way ie black people to white people aren’t

i am so mad that they didnt just make addison albino. she was "born" with white hair THAT IS LITERALLY ALBINISM. "doctors cant explain it" ITS JUST ALBINISM!!! they couldve gotten an albino actress as well! and we couldve explored the struggles addison faces with being albino!! but NOOOO

For me, what truly killed any chance of this movie being good is the fact that they gave the oppressors an actual, legitimate reason to oppress the zombies.