Speaker 1: Did you like scary movies growing up?
Speaker 2: Love them?
Speaker 1: Really? Love that? Should I start that over and say,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite scary movie? Did I do that? Is
Speaker 1: that better?
Speaker 3: That one was a good one. I did love that
Speaker 3: one a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first really scary movie? I mean,
Speaker 1: did you jump right into horror movies? And did you
Speaker 1: do like kid horror movies? First?
Speaker 2: I think I just jumped right into that.
Speaker 3: I think I honestly feel like Scream was probably my first.
Speaker 1: I auditioned for Scream for which part Skeet Ulrich's part?
Speaker 2: Oh, I did even wonderful?
Speaker 1: They told me I was too young at the time.
Speaker 1: I was too young, but I actually auditioned first Scream.
Speaker 2: How old is that? Were you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was nine. It was what like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety They.
Speaker 2: Were high schoolers, they were, but I was. I was,
Speaker 2: but they were all not high school.
Speaker 1: I might have been a high school in real life,
Speaker 1: but I was in Hollywood high school, right. No, I
Speaker 1: was probably only twenty, So that was in high school.
Speaker 2: Because that was a good franchise to be a part of.
Speaker 1: Yah. I didn't I should I should tell you what
Speaker 1: I actually meant. I auditioned to play Skeet Ulrich playing
Speaker 1: his part in Screen? Is that confusing?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: What kidding?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, No, but nothing beats Nothing beats Saw Nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Those movies, those.
Speaker 2: Oh movies so good, they're so creepy.
Speaker 1: Have you heard the theory that Macaulay Culkin's character from
Speaker 1: Home Alone grew up to be the main guy from
Speaker 1: Saw because he does all the things, like, he does
Speaker 1: all the things when they're breaking into the house, like
Speaker 1: he plants all the stuff. So that started his psychosis
Speaker 1: and his character actually turns it into the guy, the
Speaker 1: main guy from Saw.
Speaker 2: The one that's laying down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big it's a big Hollywood guy, the
Speaker 1: big guy with the I don't know the mask whatever
Speaker 1: his name of the main guys in Saw. That's Macaulay
Speaker 1: Culkin from Still.
Speaker 3: Can't see anything like horse Head and not have a
Speaker 3: nightmare that night?
Speaker 1: Really okay? So no Godfather for you?
Speaker 3: No, No, I can't do any of that stuff. That's crazy. No,
Speaker 3: all right, I love them.
Speaker 1: Well that's going to lead us into this week. But
Speaker 1: first of all, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 1: that makes you want to grab your friends your pjs
Speaker 1: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 1: all the houses were smart, the waves, Tsunamis and the
Speaker 1: high School's musical. I'm Wilfridell and I'm Sabrina Brian And
Speaker 1: you know what, this week, we're not going solo. We're
Speaker 1: going to bring in a third partner in crime.
Speaker 2: Here professional If you will.
Speaker 1: I will. I've never met this man, I hear he
Speaker 1: knows a lot about films. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I'm getting this pronunciation right. He's from something called Boys
Speaker 1: Meet World something like that. He also has a podcast
Speaker 1: called POD's Meat This World I think it's pronounced. And
Speaker 1: his name, and this has got to be a stage name,
Speaker 1: is Rider Strong. Yes, so please help us welcome my
Speaker 1: old friend Rider Strong to the podcast.
Speaker 5: Hid Hi, guys, Now there's a very specific reason you're here, Rider,
Speaker 5: and that's because when I told you about the new
Speaker 5: podcast that I was doing, you and Danielle at the
Speaker 5: same time tried to call the same movie the movie
Speaker 5: we're doing today.
Speaker 1: Can you intro the movie that we're doing today? Rider?
Speaker 1: What did we watch?
Speaker 6: We watched the movie Zombies, Yes, and yeah, I think
Speaker 6: Danielle and I both had the exact same experience, which
Speaker 6: is that this movie did so well with our kids,
Speaker 6: Like there were about three months of my life that
Speaker 6: were just all zombies all the time. Yes, I could
Speaker 6: not get in the car without having to put on
Speaker 6: the zombie songs.
Speaker 1: Indy would be singing them constantly.
Speaker 6: And then there are three zombies movies, so I've seen
Speaker 6: them all.
Speaker 1: This is easily the best one. Okay, okay, but it's really.
Speaker 6: Funny to go back and watch again for this because
Speaker 6: I hadn't seen it since I guess the pandemic, like
Speaker 6: it had been a while. So yeah, I mean I
Speaker 6: think he watched the first one right about when it
Speaker 6: first came out, which would have made him only.
Speaker 1: Five years of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, I think we probably watched it in
Speaker 6: like twenty nineteen and then like early twenty twenty, and
Speaker 6: that's yeah.
Speaker 1: He was just just loved it. And so I told
Speaker 1: him that.
Speaker 6: We were doing this, and he and I sat down
Speaker 6: and watched it again and I saw it with new eyes.
Speaker 3: Oh did he watch it with you? That's so fun awesome, Monroe.
Speaker 3: My daughter watched this one, and I will say this
Speaker 3: is probably one of the first ones she's actually sat
Speaker 3: through the whole thing and.
Speaker 1: Now how old wait refreshed me. How old is Monroe? Again?
Speaker 2: Monroe's going to be four here two weeks?
Speaker 1: So wow.
Speaker 3: She actually normally she sits for a minute and then yeah,
Speaker 3: like me, she's over it, like I do the same thing.
Speaker 3: There was a moment where I thought I lost her,
Speaker 3: we'll get there, but she came back and she finished
Speaker 3: it out. So this was the first one. Okay, I'll
Speaker 3: you know, really pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: Well, Danielle and Ryder called it at the same time
Speaker 1: rider run by a fraction of the second, So Danielle
Speaker 1: Fisher will be joining us for Zombies two Perfect Times, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, is what we call every single sequel Riders.
Speaker 1: This time it's personal. So I have a well documented
Speaker 1: phobia that everybody knows about. Frankly only one. Yes, I
Speaker 1: don't we the phobia, Yes you do. My musical phobia.
Speaker 1: Oh where I do?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 1: I always sit there and go what did they all
Speaker 1: just get together and decide on the lyrics to the song,
Speaker 1: Like we're in the middle of a scene and they
Speaker 1: all break in the song. What. Yes, I'm starting to
Speaker 1: get better because we've seen now a ton really liked
Speaker 1: the first high school musical. I was the last person
Speaker 1: in the world who never seen it. I still have
Speaker 1: never seen that. Okay, so there's one left. But let's
Speaker 1: fire it up now, because this is our year, our episode.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be see. There you go give a
Speaker 1: first installment in another modern day dcom franchise hit, following
Speaker 1: the now unstoppable formula of good looking young actors singing
Speaker 1: catchy pop hits. Zombies was first teased during the premiere
Speaker 1: of Descendants two on the Disney Channel, which is the
Speaker 1: type of setup you pray you get for your film.
Speaker 1: And also, we can say this now, A lot of
Speaker 1: negative reviews of this movie involve the idea that it's
Speaker 1: just a Descendants for zombies. Do either of you first
Speaker 1: of all? Writer, I know Sabrina has because we covered it,
Speaker 1: But have you seen Descendants? Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know the Descendants also tore through my house us time.
Speaker 1: They just released a new one and so Indy watched.
Speaker 1: I think it's the fourth Descendants.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I cannot get behind Descendants well to the
Speaker 6: same degree that I can get behind Zombies.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Descendants just always felt like it should have been a
Speaker 6: feature that was like with a lot more money. I
Speaker 6: don't know, like it always felt like constrained by the
Speaker 6: Disney Channel of it like a.
Speaker 1: Big Cinderella movie star.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just too but also just like you
Speaker 6: wanted bigger effects. I wanted the characters to be a
Speaker 6: little more.
Speaker 2: Remember it's the Disney Channel. These are not big cinema.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying is that I think Zombi was
Speaker 6: a better use of you know, limiting at the high
Speaker 6: school for you know, with the Descendants, I wanted to
Speaker 6: be like in the world more. It was a bigger world.
Speaker 6: It was like all this like, you know, you had
Speaker 6: to build so much mythology with the Descendants about like
Speaker 6: how they lived on a separate island, you know, whereas
Speaker 6: this it's like you get that animated opening and I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm in, we don't have to leave the high school.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what people are saying. That's why they're
Speaker 1: saying this is a ripoff, because Descendants and Zombies start
Speaker 1: the same way. Essentially, the zombies live on an island
Speaker 1: in Zombie Landing. They're pretty much saying it's the formula
Speaker 1: and they ran with it. But that's what we'll get
Speaker 1: into all that now. It wasn't always prime to be
Speaker 1: a success. Zombies in what we can only call the
Speaker 1: fuzzbucket method. Now, writer will elect you in on fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 1: You remember Fuzzbucket, Well, I remembered it, and then you
Speaker 1: started telling me about it. I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: had no actual recollection of it. Just like that sounds bonkers,
Speaker 1: buzzu It was was we we learned. It appeared to
Speaker 1: be made as a pilot, gotcha. And then what happened
Speaker 1: was these pilots that weren't successful on the channel or
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't know what they were going to do
Speaker 1: with they turned them into movies that weren't long enough.
Speaker 1: So Michael Eisner would come in himself and record an
Speaker 1: opening introing the movie, and he would like to an
Speaker 1: extra fifteen minutes. It took him, apparently not exaggerating the
Speaker 1: thing we learned, it took him something like fifty takes
Speaker 1: to do the old opening the fuzz Bucket, which was
Speaker 1: the first one that he had ever get.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty long monologue, so.
Speaker 1: It's just insane him just trying to pump up fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 1: But this apparently this was coming. This was what we
Speaker 1: call the fuzz bucket method because Zombies was originally shot
Speaker 1: as a pilot for Disney. The original TV show was
Speaker 1: shot but never aired, and at the time was called
Speaker 1: Zombies and Cheerleaders. And I have to ask, is that
Speaker 1: a better title than just zombies Zombies and Cheerleaders.
Speaker 3: No, well, I mean it makes more sense because the
Speaker 3: cheerleaders are just so much in this movie.
Speaker 1: Says our resident cheerleader.
Speaker 2: It's just so goad.
Speaker 6: I feel like there's a better title that does include
Speaker 6: the fact that they're because like, zombies sounds like a
Speaker 6: horror film, right or right? It's like, yeah, so it
Speaker 6: could have been like zombie cheer or zombie Spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me a zombie something, yeah, zombie spectacular something.
Speaker 6: Toy that it's not a monster movie, that it's actually
Speaker 6: a high school movie, right, like zombie High Okay, zombie hands,
Speaker 6: ze Town and the cheer leaders, I don't know something.
Speaker 1: So that's exactly what they tried with the pilot. So
Speaker 1: the pilot itself starred Luke Benward from the dcom Minutemen Sabrina,
Speaker 1: which we of course know well and Girl meets World
Speaker 1: Wrider as z and another familiar name to us. Maya
Speaker 1: Mitchell from Teen Beach Movie played Addison, and these are
Speaker 1: two actors nowhere to be seen in the eventual film
Speaker 1: versions that took off. Oh, so they actually shot it.
Speaker 1: They shot it. Something else worth noting. This is the
Speaker 1: first Disney Channel original movie musical to become a franchise
Speaker 1: where none of the main cast members have played a
Speaker 1: main character in a Disney Channel series or a Disney
Speaker 1: Channel animated series prior to the first movie being released.
Speaker 1: So everybody in this movie was a newbie to the channel.
Speaker 1: They I mean, they might have done something small here,
Speaker 1: but they'd never They didn't use any of their stars,
Speaker 1: didn't use the synergy, which is kind of strange.
Speaker 3: Very strange for the channel. Yes, almost makes it feel
Speaker 3: like it was produced outside of the channel.
Speaker 1: We've seen which, right, we've seen that before. We know
Speaker 1: it wasn't, but it doesn't has that feel of this
Speaker 1: isn't going to be one of our bigger ones. It
Speaker 1: didn't work as a pilot. Let's try to get it
Speaker 1: out there and see what happens. Yeah, writer, you always
Speaker 1: talked about and we've talked about this back in the
Speaker 1: day newsies. You know, these kind of old school movies.
Speaker 1: If you were back in the you know, it's nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two, you're thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old, and Disney
Speaker 1: Channel comes to you with the musical big dancing number.
Speaker 1: Would you have done it?
Speaker 6: Well, okay, there's a very very good answer to this.
Speaker 6: I screen tested for Newsies and do you know who
Speaker 6: it was I was up against?
Speaker 1: Were you up against Christian Bale?
Speaker 6: No? I was to play the younger brother. Okay, so
Speaker 6: I got to audition. I actually don't think I auditioned
Speaker 6: with Christian Bale. There were another set of There were
Speaker 6: three older brothers and there were three younger brothers, and
Speaker 6: they kept mixing and matching us and the other two
Speaker 6: younger brothers.
Speaker 1: That I was up against.
Speaker 6: The other one was Luke Edwards who got the part
Speaker 6: and went on to do it. The other one was
Speaker 6: mister Ben Savage.
Speaker 1: No. It was the first time I met Ben Savage.
Speaker 6: Was at Disney lot where they brought us onto the
Speaker 6: lot and we did a full filming to screen test
Speaker 6: for News's. They had a full crew. They shot it
Speaker 6: on thirty five millimeters. It was as if we were
Speaker 6: making the movie for a day, and we took turns
Speaker 6: doing it. And we had to do a wardrobe and costume,
Speaker 6: and we had days of singing songs and learning dances
Speaker 6: in order to prep for this filming day.
Speaker 1: Then that filming day while.
Speaker 6: We started, was the day of beginning of the Gulf War,
Speaker 6: of the American involvement in the Golf War. I have
Speaker 6: memories of us sitting around looking. They pulled the TV
Speaker 6: onto the on the Disney lot, and do you remember
Speaker 6: at Disney they used to have the New York Street,
Speaker 6: the old Yeah, that was built and there, and we
Speaker 6: then shot scenes on the Disney lot and I went.
Speaker 1: Into the studio. They had a studio teacher.
Speaker 6: And they had a classroom, and I went in and
Speaker 6: met Luke Edwards and then met Ben Savage, and Ben
Speaker 6: was the.
Speaker 1: I never talked about that when you were doing Boy, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. We met on news.
Speaker 6: We must have, yeah, because we both remembered having been
Speaker 6: up for it, you know, but neither of us got it,
Speaker 6: so it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I So anyway, that's one answer. But the real answer.
Speaker 6: Is I was always a horrible dancer and a very
Speaker 6: very average.
Speaker 1: To poor singer.
Speaker 6: But I was coming off of having done Lames Rob Yeah,
Speaker 6: and played Gavroge.
Speaker 2: So I was sort of known you were, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, you know, Gavroche just kind of raps.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really sing, he's.
Speaker 6: Just so, you know, okay, he's ahead of his t's
Speaker 6: my version. And I was definitely cast for my acting.
Speaker 6: You know, I wasn't like I was known in the
Speaker 6: the lay miss circles for being a very good gav
Speaker 6: Roge as far as my attitude. But I was never
Speaker 6: a real singer. And but then because I had done
Speaker 6: La Miz, Yeah, I would always go up for these
Speaker 6: musicals or you know, yeah musicals and this they brought
Speaker 6: me in and I got really close on News's didn't
Speaker 6: get it and then yeah, and then I sort of
Speaker 6: fell into more traditional sitcom acting, which also kind of
Speaker 6: was an offshoot of theater if you think about it,
Speaker 6: you know, live audience and being bigger.
Speaker 1: Sure, and that's how I found myself on boy Me's
Speaker 1: World eventually, yeh, to be serious.
Speaker 6: But yeah, so and then I never once my my
Speaker 6: voice changed and I put that in quotes because I
Speaker 6: still sound like a fourteen year old boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he sound exactly like you do.
Speaker 7: What I mean the.
Speaker 6: Difference between eleven and thirteen was great enough that by
Speaker 6: the time we started, boy, I definitely wasn't singing anymore
Speaker 6: at all. I never learned how to dance, so yeah,
Speaker 6: I would never have been asked.
Speaker 2: You didn't give him any lessons will me on how
Speaker 2: to dance?
Speaker 1: Of all my dance history and background.
Speaker 2: Preats of dancing, you didn't give him one lesson. God,
Speaker 2: I know this guy for years.
Speaker 1: I did I give him one lesson? It was don't
Speaker 1: listen to me when it comes to anything with dancing.
Speaker 1: On Zombies. The production began in May twenty seventeen. By
Speaker 1: the way, Zombies, which is spelled called z dash oh
Speaker 1: dash M dash B dash I dash oh. So it's
Speaker 1: like the letters. It's like cos yes, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: appear to be an acronym for anything. And yet so
Speaker 1: we don't know why. It's like a cheerleader is cheering it.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm guessing. Give me an oh, maybe that's what.
Speaker 3: Okay, here you go, that's how they incorporated their cheer moment.
Speaker 1: Hey, there you go, we just figured it out. The
Speaker 1: coin flip landed on tails this time, so it was
Speaker 1: shot in Toronto instead of Utah. Over ten weeks four
Speaker 1: weeks to rehearse and six weeks to shoot. It aired
Speaker 1: on February sixteenth, twenty eighteen, to just over two point
Speaker 1: five million viewers, which I know that fans of the
Speaker 1: pod here know that that sounds like a really, really
Speaker 1: low number compared to a lot of the other decoms
Speaker 1: we've talked about. But you know, teen beach movies, some
Speaker 1: of these ones from early two thousands will have ten, twelve,
Speaker 1: fifteen million viewers, which just at this point in the
Speaker 1: modern era of twenty seventeen twenty eighteen just didn't happen anymore,
Speaker 1: is not there. There's too much information from too many
Speaker 1: different places in the days of kids sitting down in
Speaker 1: millions of them watching one night were just kind of
Speaker 1: over So two point five million doesn't sound big, but
Speaker 1: it was considered a very big success for the channel,
Speaker 1: especially since what they started to do, which was really interesting,
Speaker 1: was the entire premiere weekend. It's estimated that nearly thirteen
Speaker 1: million people ended up watching it because they aired it
Speaker 1: ten times over the original premiere weekend. Wheez, Yeah, quite
Speaker 1: a way to bump themselves up. In the Raiders now
Speaker 1: we are covering the original offering, but the zombies franchise
Speaker 1: has three movies out already, with a forthcoming in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. There's a new cartoon on Disney, plus a
Speaker 1: tour alongside actors from The Descendants, which was just announced
Speaker 1: at D twenty three Toys Party Supplies Halloween Costumes. The
Speaker 1: list never ends, so to call the series of phenomenon
Speaker 1: would be an absolute understatement, and all from a failed pilot.
Speaker 1: Also a bit of a spoiler alert. Zombies three had
Speaker 1: a budget of wait for it, kids forty million dollars
Speaker 1: switch is aw d coom record here forty million bucks
Speaker 1: for Zombies three, so the studio was all in. Zombies
Speaker 1: one had how much do you know?
Speaker 2: Not that much?
Speaker 1: Not that much? I don't does not look like we don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have exactly what it was. But
Speaker 1: my guess is if we're right around where they were
Speaker 1: in d coms, it would probably be somewhere around four.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that looks It looks definitely under tan forest
Speaker 6: tight geez.
Speaker 1: For how many numbers there are? Guess, but I'm guessing
Speaker 1: that's that's because when we saw a high school musical
Speaker 1: there were as many numbers, and wasn't that around It
Speaker 1: was about a four million dollar budget.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, the first one, but all.
Speaker 1: Started bumping kids in a in a high school. This
Speaker 1: was not the makeup and everything, so it could have
Speaker 1: been higher, but it certainly wasn't forty, which is just crazy,
Speaker 1: as you could probably guess. As one of the most
Speaker 1: popular decoms ever. It's currently viewable on Disney Plus. So
Speaker 1: jump over there now and come back to the podcast,
Speaker 1: or just listen to us cold and go kick some rocks.
Speaker 1: Those are your three options. So what did you know
Speaker 1: about We always do this little segment here rider, So
Speaker 1: before today, Sabrina, what did you know about zombies? If
Speaker 1: you'd even heard of it?
Speaker 2: I had heard of it.
Speaker 3: The director that did our Cheetah Girls three is Paul Hoan,
Speaker 3: who has done the entire series of Zombies, so I
Speaker 3: definitely knew about it. I knew there was cheering involved
Speaker 3: because him and I chatted and he's like, Oh, you
Speaker 3: should come and do some kind of cheercoach thing or
Speaker 3: something or whatever, and I was like, totally, I've never
Speaker 3: seen the movie, but you know, I'm in ycause he's amazing.
Speaker 3: So I knew it would be great. But that is it,
Speaker 3: And I did know who the main character was. I
Speaker 3: knew that he was from the movie that we've already done.
Speaker 1: We both liked prom Packs so much and we both
Speaker 1: called this guy out for how good he was, Yes.
Speaker 3: And I knew he was a part of it, did
Speaker 3: not know how talented he was when it comes to
Speaker 3: singing and dancing.
Speaker 2: Damn my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3: I think he is definitely the best lead dancer and
Speaker 3: singer that we well, maybe not singer, but because there's
Speaker 3: been a lot of good, great singers.
Speaker 2: But he gives Corbyn Blue a run for.
Speaker 1: His money, and that's saying something.
Speaker 3: And I think Corbyn Blue is a gem. Yeah, so wow,
Speaker 3: that's all I knew though.
Speaker 6: I think he is so good and he is for me,
Speaker 6: just why this movie works. His performance is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen Prompact, which which took
Speaker 1: it was an even newer d comm than this and
Speaker 1: took DM to whole different level where it was no
Speaker 1: longer a Disney Channel original movie. It was they were drinking,
Speaker 1: they're talking about sex, yet very very new modern version.
Speaker 1: And he was so good. And I saw that movie
Speaker 1: rider right after you started to call out people where
Speaker 1: you were like this person's going to be a big star.
Speaker 1: I'm calling this person now. And I remember on the
Speaker 1: podcast saying writer did this. I'm calling Milo mannheim right
Speaker 1: now because he's so good.
Speaker 6: He is a tour de force. Oh, he's so effortless.
Speaker 6: Like it is just he just oozes charisma. Yes, he
Speaker 6: manages to be a leading man who doesn't feel like
Speaker 6: a leading man.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Like he doesn't steal it, He's not like it's like
Speaker 3: he's like unselfish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he doesn't, he just doesn't.
Speaker 6: He just you just love him. Your heart like goes
Speaker 6: right out to him. He's so charismatic without being showy
Speaker 6: about it, and like he can kind of be like
Speaker 6: a lovable loser even though.
Speaker 1: He's you know, beautiful and yeah, all the talent. So
Speaker 1: do you know who he is? Do you know who? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Cameron manheim Son. Yeah I know. And when I
Speaker 1: found that out, I was like, yes, this makes total
Speaker 1: sense because she is so talented.
Speaker 6: And also I got to work with her on two
Speaker 6: episodes of the Practice and I was with her the
Speaker 6: entire time. Could not have been a cooler, nicer, more
Speaker 6: grounded and just like just into the industry for the
Speaker 6: right reasons, you know, like always just loved acting and
Speaker 6: loved and she would sit with me in the practice
Speaker 6: and just out and taught.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: She was a regular on the show where she was
Speaker 6: winning Emmys, and she was so funny and so kind.
Speaker 6: I'm like not and I worked with her in ninety
Speaker 6: six or whatever, so before she was a mom, But
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised to find out that she's probably the
Speaker 6: greatest mom ever. And she raised this like incredibly talented
Speaker 6: triple threat who's probably a very nice guy.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just I'm such a fan. Well, he That's
Speaker 1: one of the things We interviewed Cornelia Frame, who was
Speaker 1: the vice president of casting for Disney Channel for doing
Speaker 1: a lot of these movies, and we asked the question
Speaker 1: that you hear all the time is when somebody walks
Speaker 1: in the room, how do you know? And what is it?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: And when you're watching this guy, you just go that
Speaker 1: that's it. That's the it that people are looking for
Speaker 1: every time he's on screen. He's funny, he's engaging, he's endearing.
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. So anybody who's wondering what
Speaker 1: it is, that's what it is. Hit factor in factor
Speaker 1: we know Ryder had heard of this movie, and I
Speaker 1: had heard of this movie because Ryder told me about it,
Speaker 1: So there go, i'd actually heard of one.
Speaker 2: That one check he has never seen or heard any.
Speaker 3: Of the movie, weirdly, because this entire show was his idea.
Speaker 1: I knew this one.
Speaker 6: Well, you probably know all the eighties ones, right, like
Speaker 6: eighties and maybe up to the middle.
Speaker 1: Not really, no, not really. There's a lot we're finding
Speaker 1: where we're going. There's times where we just don't. Somebody
Speaker 1: be like, you're doing the Thirteenth Year and we're like,
Speaker 1: is it about bar mitzvahs? And it's about a mermaid
Speaker 1: and you're like you're, okay, there you go. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: get it. Sometimes you don't. Very quick answer both of you.
Speaker 1: Favorite song in the movie.
Speaker 3: That was one of my things. I will say the
Speaker 3: music wasn't it for me?
Speaker 1: Big disagree or disagree.
Speaker 2: I remember any of those songs.
Speaker 6: No, this is what makes this movie stand out for me.
Speaker 6: Watching it again was like, oh, I actually really really
Speaker 6: mostly like the songs, and I think I think Someday
Speaker 6: is just a beautiful song, and especially the repriese.
Speaker 1: So the second time they sing someday, it's oh, my god,
Speaker 1: it's just I it like.
Speaker 6: And what I realized is that because I was like
Speaker 6: when we were watching that this time, when they started
Speaker 6: doing Someday for the first time, I was like, wait, wait,
Speaker 6: this isn't the version I listened to. And I realized
Speaker 6: that I always listen to the reprise because it's more
Speaker 6: just it's slower. They were really just singing to each other.
Speaker 6: Their voices are beautiful, the melody is amazing, the lyrics
Speaker 6: are great.
Speaker 1: I think Someday.
Speaker 6: Is like one of my favorite musical songs ever, but
Speaker 6: just the reprise the actual original song was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is more of a dance number.
Speaker 6: It's still a good song, but man, when they bring
Speaker 6: it back, I because I like the emotional musicals.
Speaker 1: My favorite musicals are the lay.
Speaker 6: Misses, the like you know, the like buldeol songs like Yeah,
Speaker 6: I like it where it's like expressive ballads and stuff
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 1: So when they do like the pop.
Speaker 6: Songs as musicals, I kind of check out. But this
Speaker 6: one for me, I like pretty much all the songs,
Speaker 6: the what's the one where they go into zombie town
Speaker 6: and they're damn like bam okay, that one. I don't
Speaker 6: love the song, but the number is is.
Speaker 2: Here's my thing with these performances.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it now, this is probably my favorite
Speaker 3: choreography I've seen from any of them.
Speaker 2: That's including my own freaking.
Speaker 8: Movie already watched. This choreography is so good. And the
Speaker 8: first not the reprise, but the first one. I got
Speaker 8: lost in how great the choreography was.
Speaker 3: The staging, the certain things Paul really knows how to.
Speaker 6: Do, different stage telling that they're able to do with
Speaker 6: their like all the lights and like when they make
Speaker 6: the disco ball out of the little.
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 3: So I thought so much of that was so great.
Speaker 3: I didn't catch on to the music. The music and
Speaker 3: Descendants because of course, obviously you're going to watch this,
Speaker 3: and if you've seen one or the other, when you're
Speaker 3: watching the other one for the first time, you are
Speaker 3: instantly kind of comparing and contrasting.
Speaker 1: Sure's great.
Speaker 3: Sure, And I will say the Descendants songs were very catchy.
Speaker 2: I think they were more repetitive or there was.
Speaker 3: Something about it that those songs played in my head
Speaker 3: and got stuck. This music didn't as much. But the dancing,
Speaker 3: besides the cheer stuff, right.
Speaker 1: We'll get well, we'll get to what you think of
Speaker 1: the cheer stuff.
Speaker 2: But the dancne it just it took me away. I
Speaker 2: was intrigued.
Speaker 1: The music in this movie gave me some of the
Speaker 1: songs especially gave me real Hamilton vibes, which I dug
Speaker 1: quite a bit. That makes the big fan of combining
Speaker 1: the two. So anyway, all right, well we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into our synopsis, which I think everybody knows by now.
Speaker 1: Students from the correctly named zombie town are transferred to
Speaker 1: a normy or Sabrina what are they called in Harry
Speaker 1: Potter again when you don't have come on.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we've done this twice now. Oh it's
Speaker 2: never going to stick.
Speaker 1: The Muggle high school, the normy or Muggle high school
Speaker 1: in a suburban town preoccupied with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies.
Speaker 1: We've heard some early thoughts right now, So you loved it, writer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, watching it back the second time,
Speaker 6: like I said, I have, I have criticisms and thoughts,
Speaker 6: but in general I am just so impressed.
Speaker 1: Like in general I think.
Speaker 6: That they thread of very this is a very tricky pitch,
Speaker 6: Like how do you I mean, you have characters that
Speaker 6: literally want to eat other characters and they're supposed to
Speaker 6: be the heroes. That's like, that's a crazy and a
Speaker 6: horror thematic to bring to a children's story against.
Speaker 1: And I think that they pull it off because the
Speaker 1: whole thing is also about racism, right, So it's like
Speaker 1: there's that underlormity. There's a lot conformity class, it's all there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot working and there's so much going on.
Speaker 2: They also have bringing in the cheerleaders.
Speaker 3: They also have for the first time that I see
Speaker 3: that not first time, but there's a few characters that
Speaker 3: you know, are a little bit more boundary breaking.
Speaker 2: Type character, which I think is great.
Speaker 3: And I think the Channel just does a great way
Speaker 3: of it being so normal and so it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's which is great where they just kind of throw
Speaker 1: it out there and it's just it's what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My hot take on this is it is by far
Speaker 1: my favorite musical. We see Wow. It's not my favorite dcom.
Speaker 1: I think Color of Friendship, Color even Going to the
Speaker 1: mat with Going to the Movie with Andy Lawrence, those
Speaker 1: two as movies I liked better. As a musical. This
Speaker 1: to me blew every other one we've seen Out of
Speaker 1: the Water. Out of the Water.
Speaker 2: You got to watch those because you'd probably really like this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're great messages.
Speaker 6: Color of Friendship was you told me about after you
Speaker 6: watched it, you were like, No, this was a really good.
Speaker 2: Movie, a really good movie.
Speaker 1: I was texting Sue during this, going like, this is
Speaker 1: a musical and I'm loving it. I love everything about it.
Speaker 1: It's so fun, it's so well done. I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: Great I am, I am.
Speaker 2: It just makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: We'll get into everybody. The movie stars Milo Manheim, who
Speaker 1: has just talked about as zed. This was only his
Speaker 1: second gig ever and he only briefly appeared in an
Speaker 1: episode of The Ghost Whisperer nine years before Zombis. The
Speaker 1: reason he was in The Ghost Whisper as a little
Speaker 1: kid is because his mother, who he just talked about,
Speaker 1: actress Cameron Mannheim, who is one of the stars of
Speaker 1: Ghost Whisperer and is best known as Eleanor on The
Speaker 1: Practice and Lieutenant Kate Dixon on Law and Order. Milo
Speaker 1: has since been in all of the Zombie sequels as
Speaker 1: well as The Connors Are reviewed dcom prom Pact, which
Speaker 1: we really liked and the recent Eli Roth movie Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Meg Donnelly is Addison, a double threat pop star actress who,
Speaker 1: beyond being in all the Zombies movies, has released a
Speaker 1: ton of music and also starred on TV on The
Speaker 1: American Housewife and voices Supergirl in the Justice League cartoon.
Speaker 1: So there's a good chance I've worked with her and
Speaker 1: never met her. Much like most voiceover actors do, Donnelly
Speaker 1: and Mannheim have actually become producers on Zombies three and four,
Speaker 1: which is great. Again, like Prompact, they're starting to bring
Speaker 1: their younger talent to the other side of the camera,
Speaker 1: which I think is phenomenal. Trevor Torjman is Bucky h Bucky,
Speaker 1: the over zealous cheerleading captain. The esteem Dancer also plays
Speaker 1: Parker Preston on the TV show Bunked. Kylie Russell plays Eliza.
Speaker 1: She was great. She's already appeared in another dcom jump
Speaker 1: in which we're going to get to, and also on
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World and Modern Family. So Eliza was also
Speaker 1: on Girl Meets World spoiler alert, we're talking to her
Speaker 1: next and we're going to ask her exactly who she
Speaker 1: was on Gromets World and Kingston Foster plays Zoe Kingston
Speaker 1: has appeared on Good Girls, Just Roll with It, and
Speaker 1: was recently seen as Eda in Zack Snyder's polarizing Rebel Moon,
Speaker 1: and was also in prompat The movie is ninety four minutes,
Speaker 1: officially moving us away from our target number and taking
Speaker 1: us back into what could they have cut territory to
Speaker 1: get to the ninety minute bullseye perfection. It was directed,
Speaker 1: as Sabrina Said by Paul Hoan, who's behind the camera
Speaker 1: for all of the Zombies movies and has been a
Speaker 1: mainstay on kids TV for decades, from TV shows like
Speaker 1: Sabrina the Teenage Witch to Even Stevens to Live In
Speaker 1: Maddie and movies like Cloud Nine Just for Kicks and
Speaker 1: Cheetah Girls One World, which we haven't seen yet but
Speaker 1: I hear it's cheetah tastic. Don't even get me into
Speaker 1: the cheetah chatter. And Zombies was written by David Light
Speaker 1: who wrote the TV pilot but had only written on
Speaker 1: You Gi Oh the cartoon before that, and Joseph Rasso,
Speaker 1: also from the pilot, who had only written on the
Speaker 1: show called Seed on City TV, whatever that is. I
Speaker 1: give them a lot of credit for this, the right.
Speaker 6: I mean to be able, like I said, to pull
Speaker 6: this off and to like how you know, coming up
Speaker 6: with like the Z band, you know, like that's such
Speaker 6: a perfect dynamic. Yeah, figuring out how to pay it
Speaker 6: off by having a malfunction being able to make him
Speaker 6: a normal person to go And I was like, this
Speaker 6: is really complicated, it's really tough storytelling.
Speaker 1: And they pull it off. I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: in I'll buy it. I'm totally fine.
Speaker 6: And the conformity thing, like having her the really genius
Speaker 6: stroke of having her have that hair hair issue which
Speaker 6: I don't want to spoil, but does come back in
Speaker 6: all these three No, I can imagine, but I don't
Speaker 6: think they had the plan. They weren't seeing ahead, so
Speaker 6: they actually just inserted it here, as you know. But
Speaker 6: it's so smart to have her have this you know, deformity,
Speaker 6: abnormality or whatever that she then has to sort of.
Speaker 6: It's so it's such a stroke of brilliance in screenwriting,
Speaker 6: and it's really really smart.
Speaker 1: I agree. The writing was phenomenal. The show itself was
Speaker 1: full of green new actors and a lot of crew
Speaker 1: that were just cutting their teeth, and they did really
Speaker 1: make audience magic for Disney now. The soundtrack was produced
Speaker 1: by George S. Clinton, not that George Clinton, but George S. Clinton,
Speaker 1: who is a crown jewel of Disney Channel Synergy, and
Speaker 1: made it to number fifty five on the US Billboard
Speaker 1: two hundreds and number one on the Billboard US Kids
Speaker 1: Albums Charts. George S. Clinton also did another little film
Speaker 1: called Trojan War, starring a young idealistic WILFERDLL. Wow. And
Speaker 1: before we get into this movie, let's do a role call.
Speaker 1: Who likes zombie movies in general because they are their
Speaker 1: whole sub section. What are your favorite zombie movies? And
Speaker 1: would this movie technically be scary for kids? And I
Speaker 1: think we've kind of established not really. No.
Speaker 6: Well, interestingly, when we sat down to watch it, Indy
Speaker 6: was like, shouldn't this be PG, shouldn't this be PG thirteen?
Speaker 3: We're watching zombie's mom Yeah, Like yeah, baby, but it's
Speaker 3: gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But then Indy was like, you know, don't get scary
Speaker 6: at one point, and which I guess. And then when
Speaker 6: when Zed turns and like there's like this people screaming running,
Speaker 6: there is a zombie moment, like a genuine football game
Speaker 6: being taken over by zombie moment.
Speaker 2: The actors did so well with it.
Speaker 6: They did, so I don't think it's scary at all.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's too scary for kids at all.
Speaker 6: But I'm kind of extreme in that, like I think
Speaker 6: we shouldn't like separate kids, and I think scary is
Speaker 6: good for kids as a general rule. I think being
Speaker 6: scared in movies is actually great. So I'm glad that
Speaker 6: they leaned into the monstrosity for at least a scene
Speaker 6: or two, and they did.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I remember kids kids movies that were about
Speaker 1: I mean, Monster Squad growing up. For me, it was
Speaker 1: like one of the coolest movies ever. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: hold no really, I haven't seen it out.
Speaker 6: I just remember such a great idea and I loved
Speaker 6: it when I was a kid too. But you watch
Speaker 6: it again, you're, like Shane Black wrote it, it's pretty Uh,
Speaker 6: it's pretty edgy in like the worst eighties ways. But
Speaker 6: but but the idea of like monsters being fun and adventurous.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, No, Zombie Land great movies. I even like
Speaker 1: World war Zo. Yeah, I guess so for me, I do.
Speaker 6: I do like zombies. Zombie movies. I am so sick
Speaker 6: of them. I'm so sick of zombie's stuff, and like
Speaker 6: this movie came out, but it's walking dead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Wacky dead stuff. I tried and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find it hard to do with it. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just like, how many times can we go
Speaker 1: back over the zombie thing.
Speaker 3: Right, It's like when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was big
Speaker 3: and there was vampires everywhere for the longest time, and
Speaker 3: then it simmered, and then Twilight came out and then
Speaker 3: we're here on It's like, sometimes it's just.
Speaker 2: Too much, you know.
Speaker 1: I agree. There was team Jacob and Team Edward. I
Speaker 1: was team please don't do any more Twilight movies, which
Speaker 1: is which didn't make for as good a poster.
Speaker 6: Zombie as a monster keeps coming back, sure, much like
Speaker 6: the undead creature itself.
Speaker 1: And I think.
Speaker 6: That that's partly because it speaks to it speaks to
Speaker 6: something that keeps coming into our culture. Like you know,
Speaker 6: when you think about like the Return of the Living
Speaker 6: Dead or The Night of the Living Dead that came
Speaker 6: out like in an era of television and mass media
Speaker 6: being a new thing, and then you had like Dawn
Speaker 6: of the Dead in the eighties, which was all about
Speaker 6: mall culture and shopping consumer and how it's turning this
Speaker 6: into zombies. And then I think, you know, nowadays you
Speaker 6: have the Internet, you have like you know, the ways
Speaker 6: that people are sort of like becoming zombie like you know,
Speaker 6: and so it's a metaphor that just keeps coming back
Speaker 6: and we always find new ways to you know, and
Speaker 6: of course with the pandemic, zombies again feel like a
Speaker 6: good metaphor for like, oh.
Speaker 1: Have you caught it? Are you turning? Do you have?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: And it's like, so it's a it's a very in
Speaker 6: some ways simplistic metaphor, but it has so many permutations
Speaker 6: and it can be so that it's the gift that
Speaker 6: keeps giving does But I want to go back to
Speaker 6: your your original question.
Speaker 1: Favorite zombie movies.
Speaker 6: Nothing beats Sean of the Day of the Dead, and
Speaker 6: it's a comedy zombie movie. I agresso am a huge
Speaker 6: fan of twenty eight Days Later. Okay, there's some debate
Speaker 6: because they are fast zombies and that some people do
Speaker 6: not count as zombies that you know, these technical definition
Speaker 6: of zombies have to be slow.
Speaker 1: And Santrala needed to get sober and that's why she
Speaker 1: was there twenty eight days later. No, no, that's twenty
Speaker 1: eight days. That's just twenty eight days. Oh different, yeah right, ooh,
Speaker 1: different movie, different movie entirely.
Speaker 2: Oh well, almost made that mistake.
Speaker 1: Let's go through the film here. The movie opens with
Speaker 1: the opening credits overview. We learn all about the cookie
Speaker 1: cutter suburbs of Seabrook through animation and graphics. They all
Speaker 1: have perfect homes for to a family, and everything was
Speaker 1: marvelous until an accident involving the local lime soda factory
Speaker 1: that turned residents into brain eating zombies. Perfect. I just made.
Speaker 6: This is this is the best way to make zombies.
Speaker 1: Okay for kids.
Speaker 6: Ye, they're all zombies because of lime soda. It's green,
Speaker 6: it makes sense. It's ridiculous, and I'm like, great, I'm
Speaker 6: on board. Now it's cute. Now it's fun. I'm totally
Speaker 6: fine with them. One of the eat because they have
Speaker 6: lime soda poison here. Yes, yes, perfect, and it's related
Speaker 6: to the local industry. It's like their own fault. It's
Speaker 6: like the original sin was there. Wow, dare they make
Speaker 6: lime soda with bad chemicals?
Speaker 1: Perfect?
Speaker 3: Perfect for moms out there trying to get their kids
Speaker 3: off the Soda Kicks, Stay.
Speaker 1: Away from Lime. Oh, I love it. It was dark
Speaker 1: times in Seabrook, but eventually the residents built a huge
Speaker 1: barrier to protect themselves from attacks, which helped their society
Speaker 1: grow into what it is today. Fifty years later, they
Speaker 1: found a much better way to deal with zombies, and
Speaker 1: of course that is the Z band. We all love
Speaker 1: how instantly they get you into the story. You're caught
Speaker 1: up right away, let's go, we know what's going on.
Speaker 1: It till thirty seconds we're in. So now we meet
Speaker 1: Z our main character. He's a pale, green haired zombie
Speaker 1: but also kind of a hoty a Zodie can we
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 2: He explains that all ZAIDI I like it, he's a Zobie.
Speaker 1: He explains that all zombies are now forced to wear
Speaker 1: government issue overalls follow a curfew and wear that Z band.
Speaker 6: And he's talking to camera yes, which I had breaking yeah,
Speaker 6: And when he started doing I was like, so, I
Speaker 6: just always have like a talking to camera phobia like
Speaker 6: you do. But I have to say it helps with
Speaker 6: the music musical factor, because it's like you're already breaking
Speaker 6: the fourth wall when everybody like you say, well.
Speaker 1: Just suddenly noses so it me in.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh no, this totally worked because then
Speaker 6: she also talks to cameras like yeah, right, let's just it.
Speaker 3: The weird part is though it happens in the beginning,
Speaker 3: and then you go for a very long time before
Speaker 3: it happens again, and then it starts happening frequently, and
Speaker 3: you're I started, no, please stop stop talking to me.
Speaker 2: I just have a friend to talk to. I can
Speaker 2: I can catch up, have a.
Speaker 1: Character, a feeling.
Speaker 6: It was a rewrite, and they were like, we can't
Speaker 6: just have them like leaving there. We have to like
Speaker 6: just explain it to the kids, just to make them
Speaker 6: comfortable with the zombie thing. And so they were like, okay,
Speaker 6: let's rewrite the scriptures haven't talked of the.
Speaker 1: It's also we found it as we're as we're jumping
Speaker 1: up in time through the Disney Channel, we're finding it
Speaker 1: more and more. They're breaking the fourth breaking the fourth
Speaker 1: wall mom Kimberly Brown's movie, all those of the words
Speaker 1: she had the forty two Kids or whatever it was.
Speaker 6: I also think that for the for the generation that
Speaker 6: this is targeted at, you know, my son's generation, they
Speaker 6: influencers are everything people talking to them like, my son,
Speaker 6: I never allowed YouTube in our house.
Speaker 1: We still don't. But he, by the age of five.
Speaker 6: Would be like if I was filming him and you
Speaker 6: started realizing that I would be filming him, you know,
Speaker 6: just doing normal.
Speaker 1: Stuff, he'd be like, wait, wait, dad, you're filming. I'd
Speaker 1: be like yeah.
Speaker 6: I'd be like, hey, guys, it's Indy. I'm like, how
Speaker 6: did you get influencer voice? How did you learn this? Like, hey, guys,
Speaker 6: But he does it, and they.
Speaker 3: All go, so today we're gonna make We're gonna do
Speaker 3: this today.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna brush my hair.
Speaker 1: No, you're right. I mean that makes a whole lot
Speaker 1: of sense. He's a zombie influencer. He's his influencer. He's
Speaker 1: going to keep I'm gonna keep making out. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna add z O to everything. And that's what we're
Speaker 1: going for right now. So the Z band that they
Speaker 1: have to wear, it's a bracelet that stops all impulses
Speaker 1: to eat people's brains. Kind of important if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be around people. Things have evolved now and zed and
Speaker 1: all the zombie pals or zal's I'll stop are attending
Speaker 1: a regular high school for the very first time ever,
Speaker 1: and Zed really wants to try out for the football team.
Speaker 1: Now we meet Addison. She is a cheerleading standout who's
Speaker 1: about to try out for the illustrious Seabrook cheerleading squad.
Speaker 1: She really wants to make the team because she is
Speaker 1: a perfectly normal team, which she wants to let you know,
Speaker 1: which is a big deal at Seabrook. But we actually
Speaker 1: know that she's different because she has bright white hair
Speaker 1: she can't fix no matter what she tries. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to hear it comes back because I would have gone
Speaker 1: with something bigger. She had gills, she had something hidden
Speaker 1: that because it seemed like your hair is a different color,
Speaker 1: wasn't that big a deal. But I get what they
Speaker 1: were going for, and I liked what they were going.
Speaker 3: For, and it wasn't purple, it was white. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could have pushed it a little farther, give her,
Speaker 1: you know, a second arm or something like that, well,
Speaker 1: or a third arm off in Zombies three. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: But then.
Speaker 3: We're going towards again. Then we're leaning towards the descendants
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's exactly okay, but that we're good. She's
Speaker 1: wearing the wig because anything in Seabrook that makes you
Speaker 1: different is bad and she wouldn't be able to cheer.
Speaker 1: Zed's family is worried about him trying out for human
Speaker 1: football and the fact that humans don't like zombies, and
Speaker 1: this is when it becomes a little obvious that this
Speaker 1: movie is about race relations and or class and or conformity.
Speaker 6: Or immigration, like you know, there's also because I love
Speaker 6: that the zombies have their own language, which kind of
Speaker 6: sounds polish a gumes like it was like, you know, yes,
Speaker 6: And I thought that was so clever because it expands
Speaker 6: the metaphor, right, because if it was just race, if
Speaker 6: it was, it would be but it can be all
Speaker 6: of these things.
Speaker 1: It's just about being separated and different. Yeah, and how
Speaker 1: there's more that connects us then separates us. And when
Speaker 1: you break down the barriers, the literal wall around Seabrook,
Speaker 1: then you realize that you have a lot more in
Speaker 1: common than you thought.
Speaker 6: And this is I mean again, like it's Romeo and Juliet,
Speaker 6: It's West Side Story. This is the tale as old
Speaker 6: as time, and the fact that they were able to
Speaker 6: because that's the pitch, right, let's do Romeo and Juliet
Speaker 6: with zombies and cheerleaders, like, and.
Speaker 1: That's awesome pitch. How do you pull that off? And
Speaker 1: I think they did.
Speaker 6: This is how they pulled it off with this structure.
Speaker 6: It's really great.
Speaker 1: This is where we learn that Adison's bomb is the
Speaker 1: mayor and she really wants her daughter to make cheer,
Speaker 1: especially since it will stop the zombies from making the team.
Speaker 1: But she tries to warn her make sure your wig
Speaker 1: stays on. Her dad is very tough on zombies because
Speaker 1: he is the zombie chief of police. So we know
Speaker 1: obviously how this household swings when it comes to their
Speaker 1: political feelings about zombies. Everyone is now off to school,
Speaker 1: the high class humans and the lower class zombies. And
Speaker 1: that's when we get our first musical number. It's all
Speaker 1: about optimism as Addison sings about her cheer tryouts and
Speaker 1: zed raps about his first day at school and football
Speaker 1: for a track called Our Year. I love the first number.
Speaker 1: I was in this point. This was very Hamilton to me.
Speaker 1: I just thought kind of the vibe of it. We
Speaker 1: also show the differences between Seabrook and zombie Town, which
Speaker 1: we also see is right next to the charred and
Speaker 1: burnt out lime soda factor. This is where we now
Speaker 1: meet Eliza's Zed's best friend, who is not sold on
Speaker 1: the new relationship between humans and zombies. She's a bit
Speaker 1: of a pessimist about the whole thing. She thinks zombies
Speaker 1: need to rise up and stand up for what is right.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have uniforms or curfews or special rules. We
Speaker 1: also meet third friend, Bonzo, who's a total bonehead zombie.
Speaker 1: He only speaks in grunts, and there is also he
Speaker 1: speaks zombie. He speaks zombies, but he's also sometimes just goes, eh,
Speaker 1: what's it. There's like one throwaway line where we have
Speaker 1: fifteen words for it was fifteen words for for brains, brains,
Speaker 1: we have twenty eight words for brains.
Speaker 6: Right, how many Inuit words are there for snow exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I was like, that's so clever.
Speaker 1: Native American words for cod We're totally just thrown away.
Speaker 1: But I was like, that's a good joke. That's somebody
Speaker 1: we have twenty eight words for brains. Yes, And then
Speaker 1: we also meet Bucky the School Bucky the schools agatistical
Speaker 1: cheerstar and captain. I am now turning this over to
Speaker 1: our dance expert. You've told me already, but the dancing
Speaker 1: in this movie is phenomenal, correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I loved it the first I wasn't ready for it, honestly,
Speaker 3: I really you know, it's not that the other movies
Speaker 3: have bad koreokoy, but it's just when you think musical,
Speaker 3: there's a kind of a style of musical choreography. This
Speaker 3: was a lot more hip hop influence, break dancing influence.
Speaker 2: There was a lot more of that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 1: Was Australian breakdance influence, and some of them very Australia. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw her in there a couple of times.
Speaker 6: I thought there's a lot of acrobatics too. Yes, an
Speaker 6: Area Sky could do them. You could see that he
Speaker 6: did not have a stunt double. He does his own
Speaker 6: back flips.
Speaker 1: The guy who played Bucky, Yes, yes, yes, yeah, he's incredible.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, that's actually him. Whenever it got
Speaker 6: to Addison, who was like they were hiding her.
Speaker 2: Face, was like, yeah, you could tell that.
Speaker 1: I was like, kindy, that's actually the guy. I'm like, real,
Speaker 1: they all actually sing, do we think they think they are.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 3: I think at this point with the Disney Channel, they
Speaker 3: don't have to bother with somebody who doesn't sing.
Speaker 1: Right. Wow, they've gotten over that Zach Effron the last time.
Speaker 1: They're like no, and they let him get the second one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But I will say when we get to the
Speaker 3: pep Rowley, the cheer choreography was not great, okay not great,
Speaker 3: and it was like, ah, man, they could have just
Speaker 3: brought somebody in who does that right, Like like you.
Speaker 1: I should have brought you. They should have brought you.
Speaker 2: They should have I could have thrown in a couple
Speaker 2: better arm motions. I would think, you know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the school bell rings, but the humans and zombies
Speaker 1: are still segregated, even at the same school. Chain link
Speaker 1: fences appear to keep them apart, and zombies can't even
Speaker 1: enter without a police escort. Bucky Fuck hates zombies, but
Speaker 1: Addison thinks they deserve a chance, and Seabrook's snotty principle
Speaker 1: confines them to a basement classroom with a janitor turned
Speaker 1: teacher and their band from trying out from any clubs
Speaker 1: or teams so at the first chance he gets, which
Speaker 1: I absolutely love. The scene It was brilliant that sneaks
Speaker 1: out for football triumphs, but instead he slams his foot
Speaker 1: up against something, so he's like, oh, walking down the hallway,
Speaker 1: which makes him look like a zombie, and so a
Speaker 1: human pulls the school zombie alarm. Everyone starts freaking out,
Speaker 1: running in every direction, and then Addison and z end
Speaker 1: up bumping into each other while hiding in an empty
Speaker 1: zombie free room. Brilliant idea too. They have zombie safe
Speaker 1: rooms throughout the school. Meet cute, Meet cute zombie. It's
Speaker 1: it's a tough meat cute because they start conversing but
Speaker 1: Addison can't see that she's talking to a zombie. We
Speaker 1: get some immediate flirting, but the minute she sees he's
Speaker 1: a zombie, she punches him in the face. It is
Speaker 1: a domestic violence meet cute. It's awesome, great.
Speaker 3: It was such a good punch and it was so funny.
Speaker 3: I just I had to rewind it and watch it again.
Speaker 3: I love that kind of like comedy. Physical comedy is
Speaker 3: my fave.
Speaker 2: And she nailed both of us.
Speaker 1: And immediately she's like and like, I just think it's
Speaker 1: so good. You're likely right away because between these two
Speaker 1: actors just leaps off the screen. They are great together.
Speaker 1: You're right, your root for them so much. So, yes,
Speaker 1: quite a meet Coot. But then Bucky interrupts and he
Speaker 1: turns out that he's Addison's cousin and if a zombie
Speaker 1: ends up touching her, it won't be pretty. Bucky is
Speaker 1: also an unsung hero actor in this movie.
Speaker 2: You Can't Great Villain danned him.
Speaker 1: He is so good as the dancer, as the singer,
Speaker 1: but as the act when.
Speaker 3: He comes on and does his jazz hands, like, it's
Speaker 3: just like he jumps through the poster and they slow
Speaker 3: it down so he's exactly the same face as the poster.
Speaker 1: He just jumped through, and then there's another one behind him.
Speaker 6: It's like he comes through and then it reveals more
Speaker 6: Bucky behind him.
Speaker 1: I thought that was brilliant. I'm like, yes, dude, genius.
Speaker 1: You can tell he's having fun too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he loves this.
Speaker 1: What a great role.
Speaker 6: You know, like to play him not as like what
Speaker 6: is it's really just his ego, you know.
Speaker 1: I just love that it's all about Bucky. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not evil, He's he's on the cars, he's on the posters. Oh,
Speaker 1: it is so.
Speaker 2: Funny, so good.
Speaker 1: At the football tryouts the seaside and yes, no joke, folks,
Speaker 1: the seaside Mighty Shrimps. Why because it's awesome. I kind
Speaker 1: of love it. I love it. I love the colors,
Speaker 1: I love all the pastel.
Speaker 3: Colors, logo of the shrimp, and the cafeteria would make
Speaker 3: me not want to eat.
Speaker 2: Ever so bad.
Speaker 1: It was great, though. The football squad is not going
Speaker 1: to be good this year, so everyone makes the team
Speaker 1: except Zed, I thought again. One of the funniest people
Speaker 1: in this entire movie was coach.
Speaker 2: The coach is still good.
Speaker 1: I want to just watch him. Oh my god. Everybody
Speaker 1: makes a team except you. Not the zombies, Oh my god.
Speaker 6: And what does he make the asides about his wife
Speaker 6: like he's just because then maybe my wife's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: So, oh my god, he's so funny, so good.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can give this. Do we see him again?
Speaker 1: I honestly don't remember. Okay, I hope so, because man,
Speaker 1: he was good. I love he admits he is not
Speaker 1: a trailblazer, the coach. He is a follower soever the
Speaker 1: principal says goes.
Speaker 2: He says, they don't even do that.
Speaker 1: I don't even do that very well. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 1: So later on, Z tells Eliza and Bonzo he thinks
Speaker 1: a cheerleader Addison might actually like him, but Eliza is disgusted.
Speaker 1: Humans suck, but things need to change around here, and
Speaker 1: being all love w with one of the humans isn't
Speaker 1: going to change anything now. At cheerleading tryouts, which we've
Speaker 1: already heard from Sabrina is the best cheerleading ever, Bucky
Speaker 1: is running a tight ship, very difficult to get on
Speaker 1: the team, which leads up to our second song, Fired Up,
Speaker 1: which is Bucky's manifesto about his cheer squad and Addison's
Speaker 1: determination to make it alongside with her new friend Brie.
Speaker 1: It's got lyrics like we were made for this, didn't
Speaker 1: come here to lose. Nothing's going to get in our way,
Speaker 1: so get up and out of our way. And this
Speaker 1: is the song I would have pulled.
Speaker 2: This is your four minutes.
Speaker 1: To I knew we.
Speaker 6: Needed Obviously we need a number cheer tryouts make sense.
Speaker 6: I would rather the football triouts got a song and
Speaker 6: like we did that instead, and it was funny.
Speaker 2: But they do that in don't they have that? Indscendants?
Speaker 6: This just felt this just felt like a descendant song ripped,
Speaker 6: you know, and as opposed to the other ones, this
Speaker 6: is one of those like auto tuning sounding pop songs
Speaker 6: where I was like, this doesn't this just is not.
Speaker 1: This doesn't feel zombies to me. It just felt like inserted.
Speaker 7: I wasn't.
Speaker 1: So this is the one song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd pull this four minutes. I know, we need
Speaker 6: the energy to keep it. There you go, there's their
Speaker 6: four minutes. We just made it back. But the choreography
Speaker 6: is just incredible. I imagine that you and your team,
Speaker 6: Sabrina do large choreography with songs that you all know
Speaker 6: right off the bat am I right with the team?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I figured. Yes, are they are your
Speaker 1: team ninth ninth grade through twelfth grade?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but michaels that I specifically work with our dancers,
Speaker 3: and we work alongside of the cheerleaders. So my girls
Speaker 3: are like stunting, they're dancing and dancing.
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Fair enough.
Speaker 1: Addison does end up making the team, but Bree barely
Speaker 1: becomes a stand in. The team is set, but Bucky
Speaker 1: needs them all to protect the cheer squad from these
Speaker 1: new zombies. Lines are being drawn more and more that night,
Speaker 1: Addison brief partake in cheer initiation Oh no, they're driven,
Speaker 1: and then dropped off in zombie Town and told her
Speaker 1: remind the freaks they don't belong in Seabrook. And in
Speaker 1: the scene directly out of Camp Buy Me Love, they
Speaker 1: have to egg the house of the zombies. They're left
Speaker 1: to fend for themselves. They quickly realize how bad the
Speaker 1: life of a zombie is. Also, Zad sees them and
Speaker 1: realizes their bad intentions, and now he kind of hates
Speaker 1: the girl he thought was so cute. The next day
Speaker 1: is the first PEP rally, which sure feels like a
Speaker 1: fast turnaround for these brand new cheerleaders. They didn't get
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time to train, but anyway, Addison
Speaker 1: wants to stand up for the zombies, but she also
Speaker 1: has to watch out for herself and of course her
Speaker 1: real hair, which she has to keep hidden. But she
Speaker 1: still visits the basement schoolroom even though humans are forbidden
Speaker 1: from mixing with zombies. She wants to apologize to z
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice. She is coming into his
Speaker 1: world twice now, apologize for going into zombie town with
Speaker 1: that stupid initiation. She invites the zombies to the PEP rally,
Speaker 1: and even though Z and Eliza still have differing thoughts
Speaker 1: on humans, they all decide to go. The PEP rally
Speaker 1: is a celebration of Bucky, which again includes him jumping
Speaker 1: through the gigantic poster of his face, only to reveal
Speaker 1: that another untouched one right behind it. Absolutely brilliant directing,
Speaker 1: It was so funny. The rally turns into another cheer number,
Speaker 1: but Bucky has involved firestick props that will one hundred
Speaker 1: percent freak out Bonzo, a zombie with a very low IQ.
Speaker 1: It seems like this is.
Speaker 6: Where I was like, oh the CGI fireworks where you
Speaker 6: can tell that they're not it doesn't And you know
Speaker 6: why they couldn't do it is because fire martial laws,
Speaker 6: like you cannot, I mean, you can't have.
Speaker 1: Actors running around with real fireworks with giant fire. But
Speaker 1: it just just looks so fake. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: it freaks him out like Frankenstein back in the day,
Speaker 1: and he runs out of the stands and knocks over
Speaker 1: the football team and the cheerleaders, but Z the football
Speaker 1: team stands back up. He saves the day. He slams
Speaker 1: in first. Well, okay, it's it's interesting the way that
Speaker 1: they have to do this his brain. He slams down
Speaker 1: on the ground, which hits his his bracelet, which gives
Speaker 1: him just a little bit more zombie. He then turns around,
Speaker 1: slams through the entire offensive line of the Mighty Shrimps
Speaker 1: football team, and manages to catch Addison from falling from
Speaker 1: a stunt. His bracelet really seems like it's fragile. It
Speaker 1: goes right back to where its supposed to be. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: he's now kind of like the hero of the school
Speaker 1: elegant elegant scene. There's so much going on.
Speaker 2: Yes, a lot happens.
Speaker 1: He makes it onto the football team, saves the girl,
Speaker 1: proves that zombies are still scary to other people.
Speaker 2: We now know that these are glitchible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, also talk about the z band.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all the aspects of the story are set in place,
Speaker 6: and it's like, boom, a great let's go where Oh
Speaker 6: my god.
Speaker 1: The football coach, of course sees this and wants Zed
Speaker 1: for the team because of what he saw at the rally.
Speaker 1: So Zed says he'll join if they let zombies fully
Speaker 1: integrate into the school. To make a deal, the principle
Speaker 1: allows zombies into the regular cafeteria to start, and the
Speaker 1: more football games he wins, the more zombies can integrate
Speaker 1: with humans. It's a big deal at the school, even
Speaker 1: though the zombies still have to sit alone at lunch,
Speaker 1: but the interspecies flirting between Addison and z continues, and
Speaker 1: Addison admits she likes the zombie, which I thought was
Speaker 1: the sweetest scene where she looks over and says, my
Speaker 1: hands are sweaty that I can feel it in my stomach. Wow,
Speaker 1: she's got a crush on a zombie. The school, especially
Speaker 1: Bucky and Eliza, are furious. These groups are not supposed
Speaker 1: to intermingle, and people start thinking Addison is different and
Speaker 1: they don't even know about her hair yet. Addison and
Speaker 1: Zed pout about their societal beliefs in the hall, and
Speaker 1: Addison confides in him about her real freakish hair. She
Speaker 1: knows what it's like to be different. He's been in
Speaker 1: abject poverty and thrown into the bad side of town.
Speaker 1: Her hair is slightly different, maybe not on the same level,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. She's had to wear a wig to
Speaker 1: fit into be a cheerleader. Might not be the same,
Speaker 1: but anyway. Uh. And they have to hide from schoolmates
Speaker 1: to conceal their interest in each other. We get a
Speaker 1: new song which everybody loves someday, a song about how
Speaker 1: one day a girl and a zombie could actually be together.
Speaker 1: And now I think this song was written even before
Speaker 1: the script. It might have been.
Speaker 6: I think it's like this was like the proof of contact.
Speaker 6: Let it go with Frozen, Yes, where you you have
Speaker 6: a song this good and you build a you know,
Speaker 6: because the lyrics.
Speaker 1: Like the fact that he's able to.
Speaker 6: Say, girl, you look delicious, I mean gorgeous, It's like,
Speaker 6: what that's so?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like it's a great, great song.
Speaker 6: And I feel like they built the movie around this
Speaker 6: number because the choreography, everything tells the whole story.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's perfect, it's great, and they're falling in
Speaker 1: love and we're watching it and we're now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we're at the first football game and Ze
Speaker 1: is officially on the team, but as teammates at this
Speaker 1: point aren't not happy about it. They're even helping the
Speaker 1: opponents by letting z get smackle tackled over and over again.
Speaker 1: Bucky in the cheer squad best cheerleading I've ever seen
Speaker 1: watch on am I wrong, Sabrina as Seabrook gets creamed,
Speaker 1: with only Addison caring about what happens with his new
Speaker 1: zombie athlete. The coach and the principal are super mad
Speaker 1: Zed isn't living up to his promise, and at halftime,
Speaker 1: the evil principle says if the team loses, it is
Speaker 1: back to the basement for the zombies. There are real
Speaker 1: stakes for all of his friends and everybody in this game.
Speaker 1: So to save the day, Z goes to his computer
Speaker 1: whiz friend Eliza to jail break his z band let
Speaker 1: him tap into a little zombie energy for the second
Speaker 1: half to win. It's dangerous decision, but desperate times. And
Speaker 1: it's like also a steroid metaphor, Yeah, and what do
Speaker 1: you have to do to help people?
Speaker 6: And uh huh but like okay, Also she does this
Speaker 6: whole like swipe left not right?
Speaker 1: Isn't that like a dating app? Ing?
Speaker 3: Is he?
Speaker 2: Yes? I don't know which one, but yes, I was like,
Speaker 2: is that are we?
Speaker 1: I don't know, especially in twenty eighteen. Yeah, you must
Speaker 1: swipe yees. Swiping right is good. You want to be
Speaker 1: swiped right or you want to I've never been on
Speaker 1: a dating app in my life.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have no idea it's one or
Speaker 2: the other though, But then.
Speaker 6: The irony is he has to swipe that whatever he
Speaker 6: swipes one direction to go on a date with her.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, this is really clever. It's
Speaker 1: like a very joke that none of the kids are
Speaker 1: gonna get.
Speaker 6: Yeps watching might be like, oh yeah, it was great, brilliant,
Speaker 6: really clever.
Speaker 1: So they jail break it. It's dangerous. Next play, he
Speaker 1: becomes a little bit zombie unstable, just a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we see some of his true zombie cell for
Speaker 1: the first time. Crazy veins at all, but he becomes
Speaker 1: a pig skin beast, touchdowns, field goals and above all else.
Speaker 1: Every time I say it, I cringe little. The Mighty
Speaker 1: Shrimp win and Zed was able to finally turn off
Speaker 1: his Z band and go back to normal, no harm,
Speaker 1: no foul. We get our first addison in Zed hug
Speaker 1: and Bucky does not look happy. But then again, other
Speaker 1: than when he's jumping through posters of his own face,
Speaker 1: when does he ever look at Ze keeps winning football games,
Speaker 1: still cheating with a Z band, so the school and
Speaker 1: community are really coming around on zombie love. Eliza was
Speaker 1: even able to join the computer club. All the Seabrooks
Speaker 1: zombies are actually becoming popular. They're now mobbed at lunch,
Speaker 1: forcing students to be either pro zombie or pro cheerleader,
Speaker 1: and most are now into the zombies. But sadly, Addison,
Speaker 1: who's only wanted to be a cheerleader her entire life,
Speaker 1: picks the cheerleader side. Now she painfully has to publicly
Speaker 1: ignore z and communicate only through written notes. They do
Speaker 1: decide to meet privately in zombie Town for a date, though,
Speaker 1: so they won't get caught. We also get an incredible
Speaker 1: shot of zombie Town here, and it might be the
Speaker 1: best looking atmosphere in any dcom we've scene so far,
Speaker 1: and I'm including the opening scene of Descendants where they're
Speaker 1: running through the market. Yeah, on their own island. I
Speaker 1: think this looked cooler and better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked it a lot.
Speaker 1: The set decoration on this movie was next level from again.
Speaker 1: I even thought the high school pastel colors and the
Speaker 1: kind of redekeylessness all just worked. It really did. Now, Okay, writer,
Speaker 1: you're a director in your mind while you're watching this.
Speaker 1: Could you direct a musical? You obviously could, But would
Speaker 1: you have done it the same way? Yeah? I was
Speaker 1: so impressed with this music.
Speaker 6: I mean I think that especially this segment when they
Speaker 6: go into zombie Town and like you're saying, the production design,
Speaker 6: like the way the atmosphere and you know, budgets are
Speaker 6: limited when they have to like have high walls for
Speaker 6: every like the zombie town, like you never see out
Speaker 6: of it except for like when they do some computer
Speaker 6: generated skylines.
Speaker 1: It's very limited locations.
Speaker 6: They do not have the kind of money that like
Speaker 6: a major feature film musical would have, so you have
Speaker 6: to make it somewhat theatrical, and you have to use
Speaker 6: what you do have. And man, I think this director
Speaker 6: nailed it. And I think like kids don't notice, you know,
Speaker 6: like they don't they're in it. They just see And
Speaker 6: this sequence in the zombie Town party, this number, the
Speaker 6: choreography shines the fact that they're able to incorporate zombie
Speaker 6: references and zombie noss into the dancing, into the storyteller
Speaker 6: and like the spring floor like that that thing.
Speaker 1: It's so genius.
Speaker 3: First I was like, wait, did they all have knee
Speaker 3: pads on?
Speaker 2: But like that hurts.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. It's not supposed to be a spring
Speaker 1: floor though I think it's supposed to be a regular floor,
Speaker 1: which the show as a zombie. Yes, you have you
Speaker 1: can do that some powers in which I thought was great.
Speaker 3: Yes, and because it does not look like it's an
Speaker 3: actual spring floor at all.
Speaker 2: Now it looks normal.
Speaker 3: They're just bouncing off of it and you're just going,
Speaker 3: I mean, I was like, what this was?
Speaker 2: It was such an incredible number.
Speaker 1: I mean, this must have been like a whole week
Speaker 1: of shooting. Oh for sure.
Speaker 6: I was like, they spent so much time in there.
Speaker 6: There's really like three separate numbers.
Speaker 1: Within the one sequence. Yeah, and I thought it was perfect.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, we're learning more and more about
Speaker 1: d cooms is you think that you have they have
Speaker 1: a lot of time, and they don't, and then you
Speaker 1: find out about it that Like, you know, we were
Speaker 1: talking to Bart Johnson where who was in high school
Speaker 1: musical and they do this huge number in the cafeteria
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, they had like two days
Speaker 1: to shoot it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they well but they had four weeks of rehearsal,
Speaker 6: you said at the beginning, Yeah, yeah, so they got
Speaker 6: the dance.
Speaker 1: Is the difference?
Speaker 6: Yes, So they're able and if in a good director
Speaker 6: can figure out, Okay, on the day, I'm going to
Speaker 6: be able to shoot it from here and here and
Speaker 6: and save money and time so.
Speaker 1: That by the time you get there, it's just doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's still I mean, that's such a huge number.
Speaker 1: Oh it is. And the actors that we've talked to
Speaker 1: that have been in these musicals that come in and
Speaker 1: we interview all the same thing is you just shoot
Speaker 1: it all day, all day long. You're shooting the same
Speaker 1: thing over and Oh, you just want to be the
Speaker 1: number to do the number. The number. You do not
Speaker 1: have kids, Yeah, no, real high schoolers.
Speaker 6: You go crazy and you're shoot in Canada, so you
Speaker 6: don't have union laws. Well only half either Canada or Utah.
Speaker 6: They flip a coin, were either in Utah or we're
Speaker 6: in Canada.
Speaker 1: Z does confide in Addison though, that he has been
Speaker 1: messing with the Z band to win games, and also
Speaker 1: takes her to an underground zombie dance party, which we
Speaker 1: were just talking about, a town celebration for all the
Speaker 1: strides that zombies have taken lately. It had real blade
Speaker 1: two vibes where you've got to actually see the vampire
Speaker 1: rave which is kind of cool. Then they get the
Speaker 1: performance mid party from DJ Bonzo Z and Eliza rapping
Speaker 1: all about how it's finally time for zombies to shine.
Speaker 1: The song is called Bayem with two MS, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty intense, rave like set with a cool flashlight setup
Speaker 1: and these light up brain balls. It was phenomenal. But
Speaker 1: no matter how cool the party is, Zed is starting
Speaker 1: to have major issues with his Z band. He might
Speaker 1: have taken this a little bit too far, and while
Speaker 1: walking around the party, Addison runs then into Zed's kid's sister, Zoe,
Speaker 1: who's like eight and at a ring. It seems a
Speaker 1: bit problematic, but it is. Addison tries to become friends
Speaker 1: with her, but is confronted by Eliza. She isn't having
Speaker 1: this co mingling, but she quickly softens up and now
Speaker 1: realizes they're actually have a lot in common and they're
Speaker 1: slowly becoming friends. Everything is coming up zombie z and
Speaker 1: then we get a slower reprise Rider's favorite version of Someday,
Speaker 1: the song that once only hoped a human zombie relationship
Speaker 1: could work, and now it actually is working, which is
Speaker 1: why this song coming back works so well. That is
Speaker 1: the right or strong reprieve kiss me. They're right about
Speaker 1: to kiss, and then all of a sudden, a zombie
Speaker 1: patrolman ruins everything. He's looking to break up the zombie
Speaker 1: party for curfew. Zed runs off and the cop takes
Speaker 1: Addison home to a very angry evil mom, who's the
Speaker 1: mayor and police chief Dad. She admits that she was
Speaker 1: seeing a boy and her parents demand to meet him
Speaker 1: or she is no longer allowed to cheer. Strange kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 2: Such a weird it's such a.
Speaker 1: Weird ghuy to meet the boy, or you can no
Speaker 1: longer do the thing we really wanted you to do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, right. Also, you have a team. I feel
Speaker 3: like that's letting down. You can't from team activities as.
Speaker 1: You're messing with the team. And everyone knows how good
Speaker 1: she is Wig and all. So the problem is she
Speaker 1: obviously doesn't want to introduce them to Zed because they
Speaker 1: know that they're big zombie racists. But back at school,
Speaker 1: it's time for the big homecoming football game. Eliza Warnzed
Speaker 1: to stop manipulating his z band. It is not a
Speaker 1: smart thing to do. He promises, just one more game
Speaker 1: and he'll stop, but unfortunately, some snooty cheerleaders overhear this,
Speaker 1: and now they know he's been cheating, and they run
Speaker 1: off to tell Bucky, who's praying to the cheerleading gods
Speaker 1: glory to all that is firecracker, firecracker sis boombah for
Speaker 1: a sign to stop Zed, and now he has it.
Speaker 1: So as a plan, the snoody cheerleaders invitalize it to
Speaker 1: the new VR room, and since she's a nerg she
Speaker 1: doesn't even notice another cheerleader sneaking up behind her to
Speaker 1: steal her computer. And I also love how they gave
Speaker 1: her like an old computer that looks like she had
Speaker 1: to cobble together herself. Britt and even worse, the entire
Speaker 1: VR invite was fake. Meanwhile, Zed uses his Z band
Speaker 1: in a brand new and so clever way to completely
Speaker 1: turn human to meet Addison's parents before they date. By
Speaker 1: the way, we got confirmation swiping right is good. Swiping
Speaker 1: left and you pass, so swiping right was human and
Speaker 1: that's why she said don't ever swipe right. But even
Speaker 1: though that's the good one, she said, don't ever do that,
Speaker 1: which is very it works, which we're all kind of
Speaker 1: confused about. But anyway, the mayor of the school nobody
Speaker 1: recognizes him as the zombie that's also the now new
Speaker 1: star of the town and the football team. He's just
Speaker 1: the new kid. Where did you meet him? Great? But
Speaker 1: also this has officially pushed his c band too far.
Speaker 1: It is now unstable and it is actually hurting him.
Speaker 1: We get shots of his wrist where you can see
Speaker 1: a kind of poison leaking into his body. It's very
Speaker 1: Tony Stark with the palladium in his chest.
Speaker 6: And also very hulk like. Yes, but he's gonnaulk out
Speaker 6: it any minute.
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot about those things, right, but
Speaker 3: I did get hulk feeling.
Speaker 1: You would not like to see me when I'm a zombie,
Speaker 1: absolutely right. We skip forward in time now it is
Speaker 1: now the final seconds of the homecoming game, and it
Speaker 1: all comes down to the last play the Mighty Shrimper
Speaker 1: down by five, which never happens in a football game.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing essentially as being down by five.
Speaker 1: You can there's people out there that are like, if
Speaker 1: you get a safety in a field goal, yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. You're very rarely down by five.
Speaker 2: Weird.
Speaker 1: It's weird. Addison decides to cheer for the zombies to
Speaker 1: hype up the crowd, but that is the last straw
Speaker 1: for her cousin Tucky. Okay boop kicks her off the team,
Speaker 1: and at the same time, Bucky's crony cheerleaders hack into
Speaker 1: Eliza's computer with three seconds left, stopping z z band
Speaker 1: from working. So he'll need to score just as his
Speaker 1: regular self. But with this in mind, they passed the
Speaker 1: ball to Zed, who magically does score on his own
Speaker 1: shrimps win Well. I started to get teen Wolf vibes
Speaker 1: right around.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, this is totally wolf playing the sport
Speaker 6: as a monster. Should I use my monster ability?
Speaker 1: Should I not? I was like, Wow, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of team Wolve him here, even the same literally the
Speaker 1: same scene where everybody jumps on top of him and
Speaker 1: he throws them off and comes up the wolf. They
Speaker 1: come on top of him, he throws them off and
Speaker 1: comes up the zombie. I didn't notice that, but you're
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. It is absolutely teen Wolf. So
Speaker 1: the cheerleaders take the whole thing one step further and
Speaker 1: they just say his z band entirely, and then he
Speaker 1: goes full zombie and he is hungry for human or
Speaker 1: one of the twenty eight ways they say brain. Then
Speaker 1: they do to make it even worse, they do the
Speaker 1: same thing to Eliza and Bonzo's bands. The crowd is terrified.
Speaker 1: They're running for their lives, which we get that whole fine.
Speaker 1: Zombie vibe Z tracks down Bucky, but right before he's
Speaker 1: gonna eat the idiot, he stops himself without the aid
Speaker 1: of the band, which gives you hope that maybe you
Speaker 1: can change who you are. But if a zombie patrolman
Speaker 1: stuns him and takes him off in cuffs, Eliza and
Speaker 1: Bonzo also get caught.
Speaker 2: What do you what, it's stunned gun.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 2: It's like a it's like a huge you iron clothes.
Speaker 3: It looks like a big iron like you like like
Speaker 3: it was so big, like you.
Speaker 2: Couldn't have just like a taser.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just they have cattle prods that are
Speaker 1: like this big. Now, what are you doing? That's very true,
Speaker 1: oh man, So everybody's running around. He stops himself, though,
Speaker 1: so you never know what can happen. But Addison, who's
Speaker 1: been screaming and crying watching the scene unfold, tells her
Speaker 1: school to be civilized and not fight zombies just because
Speaker 1: they're different. She's so mad that she breaks into a song.
Speaker 1: This is the song I would have cut.
Speaker 2: I this is the song I would have cut.
Speaker 3: I was not understanding why people were like walking around her,
Speaker 3: and yeah, when she comes out of it, it's a
Speaker 3: dream sequence type thing.
Speaker 2: Right, when she comes out of it, it makes real sense.
Speaker 6: And to a full music video, it's like what is
Speaker 6: going on in her head? Yeah, and going into it,
Speaker 6: it wasn't quite clear.
Speaker 3: Now I got the same thing as as Baby Be
Speaker 3: singing in Baby Yes.
Speaker 2: In high School musical where she's by herself.
Speaker 3: And it's you know, it's this drama aspect.
Speaker 2: I totally get it. You know, I'm in for that.
Speaker 3: But it just was a little too long and just
Speaker 3: a little too not so.
Speaker 6: Necessary what I would have done if I was directing
Speaker 6: this all right now, budget and being you know, probably limited,
Speaker 6: wouldn't have been able to do this. But if she
Speaker 6: had somehow like stayed in normal motion and everybody else
Speaker 6: around her went into slow motion, so like indicate like.
Speaker 2: I feel like that we're now, and then we do
Speaker 2: that a little.
Speaker 6: Well, they do the like close ups and it's all
Speaker 6: like kind of fuzzy around her or like a focus. No,
Speaker 6: just not enough because I was like, is she singing this?
Speaker 6: Are they seeing her sing this?
Speaker 1: And then is she talking to them?
Speaker 2: Because it seems like she is, but no one's hearing her.
Speaker 6: And then I was also like, she's saying like, you know,
Speaker 6: the song is like I'm gonna take a stand. It's
Speaker 6: stand up, stand up. And I was like, well, you
Speaker 6: you are like you right now you're singing like isn't
Speaker 6: this you taking a stand? And hasn't she already kind
Speaker 6: of taken the same time She's done this, I know,
Speaker 6: but the bottom But.
Speaker 1: At the end, when she rips off her wig.
Speaker 6: I realized what the song was and I was like,
Speaker 6: that's cool. Like it's no longer about telling everybody to
Speaker 6: welcome the zombies. It's about admitting who you are and
Speaker 6: standing up for yourself.
Speaker 1: And I thought that made the whole number make sense.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was on.
Speaker 2: Board with that A million years to get there. That
Speaker 2: was my issue.
Speaker 1: It was it would have been my four minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the four minutes that was taken up.
Speaker 2: It took us so long. But then you're right. As
Speaker 2: soon as she pops that wig off, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's cool, Bam, I'm back into it.
Speaker 1: Bam, she looks great with the white hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish she could.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why the wig had to be so ugly.
Speaker 3: Why couldn't it have.
Speaker 2: Been like a cute, you know style, because she looked
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: I agree. And then we get something here that we've
Speaker 1: now seen in a number of dcoms, where for some
Speaker 1: reason we get a montage basically seeing the entire movie. Again,
Speaker 1: that's happening a lot. And then weirdly, Bucky joins in
Speaker 1: her singing about sadness, but he appears to be developing
Speaker 1: a heart. Maybe he's seeing another side because the guy
Speaker 1: didn't eat his face. And as she's hitting the highest note,
Speaker 1: she rips off her wig. Everyone sees her weird white hair,
Speaker 1: and there's that moment and then they just start booing her,
Speaker 1: which is really funny.
Speaker 3: Big moment they're like, I guess that's why it had
Speaker 3: to be not like a good looking wig. I guess
Speaker 3: is why, because they were going to dismiss her on that.
Speaker 2: No, no, we don't like it.
Speaker 1: Eventually, Zed, Eliza and Bongo are released and get dropped
Speaker 1: off back in zombie Land, and thanks to Zed now
Speaker 1: everyone's z band will be updated, so they can't be
Speaker 1: messed with, and all the kids are forced into zombie
Speaker 1: only schools. There are serious repercussions to this, but the
Speaker 1: bands do now have Wi Fi. Eliza wants an uprising.
Speaker 1: Either they become equal or she tears it all down.
Speaker 1: She's sick of waiting. Bucky. He's building a civil war
Speaker 1: of sorts with his cheer team, all in the prep
Speaker 1: for the big championship day. Unbeknownst to him, Eliza is
Speaker 1: setting up the sabotage of the event, which feels like
Speaker 1: terrorism is a dark place to take a decop, but
Speaker 1: that's where they went. It is now the day of
Speaker 1: the Championship competition, and Addison is in the audience, now
Speaker 1: without her wig. Now this is this is intense.
Speaker 6: You have the big game, which usually is the third
Speaker 6: act in the big climacting moment.
Speaker 1: Now we have a whole nother event.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, this movie's back.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 1: It just keeps going. I was like, all right, and
Speaker 1: it gets bad. I mean her parents are like not
Speaker 1: even sitting with her. You know, there's been serious of
Speaker 1: serious repercussions to all this stuff going on.
Speaker 2: Here we are again in a DCM with bad parenting oh.
Speaker 1: Some of the worst parents ever seem to have Disney
Speaker 1: Channel kids that can sing. Zed finds Eliza under the
Speaker 1: bleachers scheming and tries to convince her to stop this
Speaker 1: type of behavior. That's when Addison joins them, and you
Speaker 1: think she might be against the fid attack, but she's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm down for it. Go kill all my blow it up.
Speaker 1: But in the end Zed convinces them it's not the
Speaker 1: way seabrock Cheer takes the stage and honestly, this is
Speaker 1: another time we see what Rider and you were talking
Speaker 1: about before, where the actor who plays Bucky is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal dancer. Yeah, he's and when I notice how good
Speaker 1: the dancing is, you know how good the person is,
Speaker 1: because man, this guy can date incredible. But because of
Speaker 1: the heavy hand and all the recent changes, his team
Speaker 1: falls apart. The six people that are still on his
Speaker 1: team fall apart. Everyone turns on him during the performance,
Speaker 1: until Zed's sister Zoe jumps up to help. It was
Speaker 1: very camp rock, which we just saw, but very cute.
Speaker 1: The booze continue, but Addison realizes it'll take more than
Speaker 1: one person to change things. Addison and the Zombies take
Speaker 1: the stage to celebrate their differences and perform a routine
Speaker 1: they magically just know without any practice, very decom and
Speaker 1: instead of joining the revolution, Bucky quits the team. But
Speaker 1: we watch history unfold as humans and zombies team up
Speaker 1: to perform a rendition of Fired Up, and the judges
Speaker 1: love it. Nothing combats prejudiced like good cheerleader and guess
Speaker 1: who even ends up jumping in Bucky. That's right, Zoe
Speaker 1: hands him his captain's whistle back changes his mind and now,
Speaker 1: just like that, Bucky is my favorite character of the
Speaker 1: entire movie. He gets an ensemble final performance because the
Speaker 1: zombie and cheerleader have changed the world with their love.
Speaker 1: They say they love each other in zombie language, but
Speaker 1: we don't get a kiss. They didn't end up winning
Speaker 1: the championship somehow, but they did bring everyone together, and
Speaker 1: now they've thrown a great zombie and human blank. The
Speaker 1: party quickly turns into another performance, with everyone from the
Speaker 1: movie now performing a reprieve of Bayem as the credits
Speaker 1: roll and Zed and Addison wave goodbye. Zombie and human
Speaker 1: together in love, and that's Zombies Won No teas a sequel.
Speaker 1: So that's a little surprising. We've had that in the past.
Speaker 1: We had that with Teen Beach Movie and some other ones,
Speaker 1: kind of an ac credits scene. I mean they didn't
Speaker 1: know again, they were turning off a pilot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then you guys would getting ready for Werewolves.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, oh geez. And I think that. I think
Speaker 1: the fourth one is called The Dawn of the Vampire,
Speaker 1: the one that's coming out in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: Were Wolves, then Aliens and yeah, but I will say
Speaker 6: the second one is actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: But the songs just don't cut, don't die. I don't
Speaker 1: want to know, I don't want to open. All right,
Speaker 1: you guys are doing it all right? All right, now, writer,
Speaker 1: there comes a time where Subrina and I do something
Speaker 1: fun called real reviews. We are going to read a
Speaker 1: five star review and then a one star review of
Speaker 1: the movie. These are all real Sabrina. I think you
Speaker 1: have the five star this week. Could you read it?
Speaker 3: I do, and I love it because it is so
Speaker 3: it's such a team writing it that I feel real
Speaker 3: cool doing this. But I'm totally gonna be super goob
Speaker 3: and mess it up. I'm sure this five stars from
Speaker 3: Peter c. This movie absolutely smashed. I watched it with
Speaker 3: my friend at three AM, and we couldn't stop laughing
Speaker 3: at the incredible acting and performances. So many of the
Speaker 3: characters were absolute savages and took every opportunity to roast
Speaker 3: either themselves or the main characters. A one million out
Speaker 3: of ten for me, and the songs slapped boom.
Speaker 1: There is your five star review that says it Mike Zombie,
Speaker 1: Mike drop. I have the one star this week from
Speaker 1: Logan f I. I'm gonna read it exactly as written, Okay,
Speaker 1: as I always do. I thought this movie wasn't very
Speaker 1: accurate to zombie culture. Zombies are dead people brought back
Speaker 1: to life, and this movie does not embrace that. And
Speaker 1: there were many mistakes in this movie. For example, Addison
Speaker 1: wears a wig to cover up her white hair, but
Speaker 1: there is no way her wig wouldn't fall off while
Speaker 1: doing flips. And that's not the only mistake. There are
Speaker 1: way better and more creative movies. One star, very damn.
Speaker 1: We also like to play It's This is Sabrina's favorite
Speaker 1: part of the program right now. Producer Jensen likes to
Speaker 1: give us a game every week where it's some sort
Speaker 1: of trivia something along those lines. Sabrina is not the
Speaker 1: best at it all the time, let's just say, and
Speaker 1: she's starting to be convinced that it is because Jensen
Speaker 1: hates her. I disagree the feature. This week, we are
Speaker 1: playing a game called Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
Speaker 1: This movie has us thinking about what exactly we do
Speaker 1: if our friends turned into zombies thanks to an issue
Speaker 1: at the local Lime soda factory. So, according to the
Speaker 1: website nerd Fitness, there are easy steps on how to
Speaker 1: survive a zombie apocalypse if one actually happens. So we
Speaker 1: will get a piece of advice and we have to
Speaker 1: guess if it's actually on their website or if it's
Speaker 1: just made up. And if we do it, we'll end
Speaker 1: up dying faster than everyone else. If we get three
Speaker 1: of them right, we win. Neither Sabrina and I know
Speaker 1: any of the answers, So here we go. Number one,
Speaker 1: is this from the website telling you to really do this?
Speaker 1: Or was this made up? Focus on sprints when running
Speaker 1: as exercise.
Speaker 2: I would think that that would be a really good
Speaker 2: option to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Writer Sabrina thinks it's real, So I would vote
Speaker 1: against her.
Speaker 6: No, I would say no, no, you gotta, you gotta,
Speaker 6: You've gotta be marathon.
Speaker 1: You gotta outrun the zombies. You have to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can maybe move fast, but then what then
Speaker 6: you're in a barn and you gotta bar the door.
Speaker 1: They still break in. You gotta outrun and out last.
Speaker 7: Listen, guys, even a clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 7: She got it right. No need to be a marathon
Speaker 7: or use the treadmill to learn how to run in
Speaker 7: spurts to get away from You.
Speaker 2: Gotta give fast. You gotta be fast, all right.
Speaker 6: There are races in this country that you can do
Speaker 6: where people chase It's like part of the marathon of
Speaker 6: the race that you are running all night and like
Speaker 6: actors are chasing after you with zombies and yeah no,
Speaker 6: it's like some of these extreme, you know, themed races
Speaker 6: that people do love it.
Speaker 1: Number two Learn parkour.
Speaker 7: Yeah what I don't say that in front of writer
Speaker 7: your dancer.
Speaker 1: Parkour.
Speaker 6: Parkour is like extreme walking where you like jump and
Speaker 6: climb things like in streets like of like yeah, like
Speaker 6: the athletic ability to like I.
Speaker 3: Did for the Olympic opening ceremonies. Back guy, Yes, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: so learn park Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that
Speaker 3: would be very very beneficial definite skill.
Speaker 1: You both say yes, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 7: Listen, she's on fire zombies and you probably live in
Speaker 7: a city or suburb. Obs will need to be avoided
Speaker 7: to stay safe.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Wow, she's two for two.
Speaker 3: That is something that I do in my dreams all
Speaker 3: the time. By the way, she's a dream part for
Speaker 3: the mob. And I am really good. I mean I can,
Speaker 3: I can do all of it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Number three Avoid being in a large group.
Speaker 1: Stay nimble.
Speaker 6: No, no, you want to well, I don't know, I
Speaker 6: guess maybe No, No nimble good zombie you want to
Speaker 6: you want to find other humans to be around.
Speaker 1: That's what I would say. I'd say, you want to
Speaker 1: be in a big group. If there's a lot of
Speaker 1: food at the buffet, there's a letter chance they're going
Speaker 1: to grab you.
Speaker 2: Power in multiples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, start pushing the kids into the zombies.
Speaker 7: That's right, I listen, I mean, I guess she'll she'll
Speaker 7: survive a zombie apocalypse. Survival is more likely in a team.
Speaker 7: Everyone has different strengths, and you'll need as much power
Speaker 7: as possible.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so you've already won. And number four is
Speaker 1: only shoot if you know it will kill a zombie.
Speaker 1: I'd say yes because you want to save the AMMO.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a gap there, you what it is?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the zombie thing is is like you got
Speaker 6: to take out their heads, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 7: Keep as many bullets as possible.
Speaker 1: Agreed? Can we very quickly do? Sabrina sees? What do
Speaker 1: you got this week? Sabrina?
Speaker 3: All right, So the first thing is right in the beginning.
Speaker 3: I know you guys loved the cartoon, but could they
Speaker 3: have done maybe a little bit more of a complicated barrier.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that the zombies could have not just
Speaker 3: hopped right over that. I mean you could have stood
Speaker 3: on one person's shoulder to get over that. That was
Speaker 3: a little crazy, Like you said, Rider. There were some
Speaker 3: really funny lines in this. My favorite of hers of
Speaker 3: Addison was the only thing deadlier than my high kick
Speaker 3: is my low kick.
Speaker 2: It was so good. I was like, damn, that was
Speaker 2: so good. The police officer Gus that comes after the
Speaker 2: zombie bash. Yeah, how does she know him?
Speaker 3: Where did he come from? Why do we know his
Speaker 3: name is Gus? I get it that he's a police officer.
Speaker 3: But that just felt really random time.
Speaker 1: Her dad is the chief of police.
Speaker 2: Okay, but that does not mean you just know Gus.
Speaker 3: Gus came out of nowhere and she was like Gus,
Speaker 3: like Gus had a name.
Speaker 2: It was weird. I told you guys already about his
Speaker 2: thing that he gets a giant, giant thing crazy.
Speaker 3: One thing that I will say is they did save
Speaker 3: certain things within the budget to make some of this
Speaker 3: other That first one is the wardrobe. Did you guys
Speaker 3: notice that everyone has the same outfit on the entire movie?
Speaker 1: Is because they said the zombie Yeah, the zombies are
Speaker 1: forced to wear are forced to wear uniforms, but everybody
Speaker 1: else's too.
Speaker 2: Yes, the cheerleader's only wear stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it was so.
Speaker 2: Weird to me.
Speaker 3: And like the principal, why does the principal have one
Speaker 3: pink suit? Why the coach we already know how he
Speaker 3: feels about his only pair of sweatmans.
Speaker 6: I totally didn't notice you For me, it like existed
Speaker 6: in this like comic book kind of world where it's like, no,
Speaker 6: brown doesn't change your shirt, so it's fine.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It just was kind of interesting that they're going along
Speaker 3: day after day and everyone is wearing and I noticed
Speaker 3: it with the principle. I'm like, man, this lad a
Speaker 3: lot of pink ones. Yes, a lot of pink suits.
Speaker 3: And then I'm like, wait no the coach and then
Speaker 3: they go wait a minute. I start kind of just
Speaker 3: scrolling back. I'm like, they never changed my last one?
Speaker 3: Is I understand that she's wearing a wig. I'm wondering
Speaker 3: in the second movie, We're gonna have to wait for
Speaker 3: the sequel, will why does the mom have a wig on?
Speaker 3: Because that is clearly a blonde wig?
Speaker 1: That was a wig too.
Speaker 2: Do we dive in there or.
Speaker 3: Is it just an actress that has been their hair
Speaker 3: and they flap a blonde wig.
Speaker 1: That's my guess, but we'll have to see.
Speaker 3: But I'm like that would be like, does the mom
Speaker 3: also have this white hair that she is you know?
Speaker 3: Or is her hair purple or something that she's because
Speaker 3: she is absolutely wearing a wit.
Speaker 1: Okay, third movie reveals I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, So I guess have to put a
Speaker 2: pin in it for an hour.
Speaker 1: Mom has been sleeping with zombies for years, but anyway,
Speaker 1: she has been getting some zombie strange and that's just
Speaker 1: the way zombie you never go back, never go back
Speaker 1: once you go zombie you. Now we are at the
Speaker 1: portion the end of our show here where we like
Speaker 1: to rate the film. We've done Rider and we always
Speaker 1: rate one out of ten, but we pick different rating
Speaker 1: systems every week. So this week, would we like to
Speaker 1: do one out of ten? Cameron mannheim Sons one out
Speaker 1: of ten, zombie DJs one out of ten, manipulated z
Speaker 1: bands one out of ten, Cheer Championship, terrorist attacks one
Speaker 1: out of ten, not so weird white hair one out
Speaker 1: of ten, light up brain balls, or one out of
Speaker 1: ten Bongo Fears of Fire? Can I make a stress please?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: One out of ten? Mighty Shrimp?
Speaker 2: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing as a best Rider one out
Speaker 1: of ten mighty shrimp? What do you give? Zombies one?
Speaker 1: This Zombies one gets a full nine mighty shrimp for me. Wow,
Speaker 1: solid score of a nine mighty shrimp. Sabrina, what do
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 2: Oh man?
Speaker 3: I did really like this movie, the choreography, and it
Speaker 3: was extraordinary to me. I like I said, this is
Speaker 3: my favorite choreography we've seen, and that's gonna bump it
Speaker 3: up to an eight point five for me Okay, my
Speaker 3: eight point five mighty shrimp.
Speaker 1: Like half a shrimp, like it's half. It's just like gross.
Speaker 3: Because I it's hard when we know there's a sequel,
Speaker 3: because you're going we know the budget's going to be better.
Speaker 3: I can't jump too high because I feel like it's
Speaker 3: going to get better. Although I know rider, you did
Speaker 3: say that this is your favorite for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, okay, first one.
Speaker 2: I'm interested. Now we're going to be I.
Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent with our guest this week.
Speaker 1: This is this is my favorite musical so far. I
Speaker 1: might even go to a nine point five based solely
Speaker 1: on a tail on my Milo's performance. You I watching Milo,
Speaker 1: You're seeing a star. I mean, you're just seeing a star.
Speaker 6: I I actually think it's I mean, as much as
Speaker 6: he might be having fun and he's now a producer
Speaker 6: on the films that's green, like he could be a
Speaker 6: movie star. Like this might be holding him back, like
Speaker 6: he will well he should be doing it right now,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Like, go watch prompacked.
Speaker 3: Prong Pack feels much more like a movie on a
Speaker 3: pacts like feel like a channel.
Speaker 1: A regular old school romantic comedy, high school teenage romantic comedy.
Speaker 1: They're phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Slave.
Speaker 1: He was great, so good, So I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: a nine point five. I really enjoyed this movie. I
Speaker 1: really liked everything about it. I'm now going to lower
Speaker 1: my expectations for Zombies two. This time it's personal. In
Speaker 1: Zombies three, now it's even more personal, so that'll be good.
Speaker 1: But Ryder Strong, thanks so much for joining us for Zombies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: This was so fun.
Speaker 1: This was so cool and so fun. And we're so
Speaker 1: happy that you're here. And we're not gonna let you
Speaker 1: off the hook yet. We will down the line drag
Speaker 1: you in for some other films. I'm gonna do some
Speaker 1: where you've never seen them before. We're gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick one and be like, hey, you are coming here
Speaker 1: to watch whatever next please, And yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: go weird. I want to go into like the obscure eighties. Seven. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: here you go for rear. This is the perfect time
Speaker 1: to wrap it up then, because our next movie out there,
Speaker 1: Fans is one that I picked and I've never seen it,
Speaker 1: but I loved the poster and that's all I went by.
Speaker 1: It is a real throwback nineteen eighties The Ghosts of
Speaker 1: Busley Hall. It's available on Disney Plus, so jump ahead
Speaker 1: and get ready for an all new episode. But in
Speaker 1: the meantime for our park Opper episode over on our
Speaker 1: own magical rewind feed, we are digging even deeper for
Speaker 1: zombies with actress Kylie Russell. The computer with zombie Eliza herself.
Speaker 1: We had a great, great time talking to her all
Speaker 1: about the routines and her wrapping, and she is going
Speaker 1: to get in a little bit about what she was
Speaker 1: thinking about blowing up the school's gym. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: a little bit of that right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is like in the rehearsal space.
Speaker 4: I can follow along and I can kind of keep up,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't until like I got on camera and
Speaker 4: they're like action where like something just kind of like
Speaker 4: clicked and I was like, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Got this, Like I can do it, Okay, cool, Wow.
Speaker 4: It stards in the rehearsal space, I feel like rehearsal time,
Speaker 4: and then on screen it just kind of like how did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where did that happen? Thank you everybody so much
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