What the Twilight series did for vampires I suppose Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is supposed to
do for the undead, break down fear of them and welcome them into society. Of
course since this is the Disney Studio certain parameters have to be observed.
The film which leans quite heavily on the High School Musical and Teen Beach
films for structure has its setting in some mythical town where the Zombie population has been contained, quarantined, and segregated. A generation of
Zombie kids like Milo Mannheim are growing up in the Zombie ghetto.
But change comes slowly and at last Zombie kids are going to go to real people's high school where there was not one classroom scene. In fact the
Zombie kids are relegated to the basement.
But when a throughly medicaed Mannheim becomes a football star and cheerleader Meg Donnelly shows an interest in him, could this be the final
barrier to fall. Not if cheerleader captain Trevor Tordjman has anything to
say about it.
The musical numbers are nice and the message about tolerance and diversity
is also good, but clumsily delivered.
One thing I thought was dumb. Donnelly has this horrible secret that she has
platinum blond hair. Why that's so terrible God only knows. Hasn't this
generation ever heard of Jean Harlow?