If I had a nickel for every popular teen franchise that characterized Native Americans as werewolves, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
@@kolcheks oh really? I've never seen nor read Twilight so I thought it was just about Vampires. Didn't know werewolves were even involved. Thanks for answering my question.
She pulled the classic white family move that they had one Native American person in the family tree they can have a dream catcher and say some racist sh!t to native groups
@@towelgirl21it’s literally just a lighter version of her blonde wig idk how it’s supposed to be unappealing or hideous when there are kids that dye their hair that color lol it’s supposed to represent something that’s out of the ordinary in a “perfect squeaky clean small town” but Disney kinda failed in that department honestly
It's incredibly bold of this franchise that focuses on several racial discrimination allegories to center almost all of its conflicts around the white girl. It only gets worse with the 3rd one, though, so I'm excited(?) to see when you'll cover that one. Good review!
Why was addisons hair such a big deal though? I think Disney really missed that mark and it wasn’t the win they thought it was lol She wasn’t treated differently or discriminated against yet she acts like she’s just as oppressed as the werewolves and zombies lol like _oh wow! her hair is _*_2_*_ shades lighter now??? how terribly sad that she’ll now be called “snowball” for the rest of her life!😨_
The regionally indigenous humans (including various kinds of native Americans) as werewolves (or any other fantasy beast) concept is interesting, but it is terribly overused without twists or turns, in a way that disaffects everyone but the most vanilla minded of humans. I’m not pleased with such blatant overuse!
@@Isabel-sr8ep I feel like that is similar to something that happened in one season of yugioh of all things, where in the first few episodes, everyone talks about how much Yuya's dad leaving marked him as a failure, and then never bring it up again as far as I know. Like, I think they were gonna do something and then forgot
I wish the series continued. I want 20 movies with poorly done allegories for bigotry using weird versions of classical monsters. You can never have too many gay vampires.
So not a single person who had a hand in writing these movies stopped for a second to think that maybe comparing minorities to monsters isn't the key to ending racism
Absolutely insane how Addison thinks having white hair is the same as being systematically oppressed💀 The worst part is that they could’ve actually improved on this in this movie. Just have Addison self identify as a werewolf, she has to abide by the racist monster laws, and then she sees what the actual zombies and werewolves have to go through.
I said the same thing lol she wants to fit in sooo bad it’s actually sad if you think about it like imagine if you told her to her face that she has white priv- (oh my bad this is Disney channel oops!) *human privilege* She would get so mad and go on a rant how she’s so different and treated so unfairly meanwhile the zombies were thrown out of the town in the first movie and the werewolf’s were automatically slapped with a label that they are all dangerous monsters or sum shit I bet the most Addison gets is some kid going “Ha white hair 🫵😂” and that’s it
Yeah thats one thing I can't ignore. As a fan of these movies I wish they didn’t focus so much on Addisons white hair. In the one of the movies Zed points this out and its framed as something wrong??????
Ok so hear me out… Zombies were an allegory for black people, and the humans think are afraid of them for being strong and aggressive, and think their hair is wacky and strange. That’s a bit to close to reality with the amount of discrimination there is simply for having black hairstyles. Now, we’ve got werewolves, an allegory for Native Americans, and everyone is scared of them because of their barbaric behavior and animal spirit practices. Sound familiar? It’s a little too on-the-nose for me. I haven’t seen the third with the aliens but if I swear to god if they are an allegory for immigrants I’m going to lose my mind. edit: I am aware that the third movie is an immigrant allegory, you don’t need to keep telling me lmao
I LOVE (no i don't) how in every movie Addison feels the need to insert herself into serious racial issues. "My hair is white so I'm actually just like you" to the respective race allegory, Is like a white person saying "My hair is curly so I'm just like you" to a black person. Like Addison, honey, sweetheart, you wear a wig because you have white hair, Zombies were forced into segregation and discrimination and the only way for them to desegregate everything is to show that they boost the morale of their oppressors, and Werewolves were removed from their homeland by settlers who claimed it as their own and abused their resources for profit. You are not the same 💀
It’s not even like her experiences are invalid either, but she keeps acting like they’re just as bad as what the zombies are going through?? Like this plot point COULD have worked if they used it instead as a gate way for empathy (comparing the sentiment but also understanding your experiences are *not* the same) instead of “I’m just like you guys :(“. So instead of getting solidarity we got… this shit.
@@Vivigreeny25 That’s what gets me! You could so easily show her having negative experiences because of her hair being different and have that be the initial draw of empathy for understanding the zombies and werewolves, without actually comparing their situations. Her experience is valid (if the writers actually showed more of it, that is) but hooo boi who thought it was a good idea to center all these racial allegories on a white girl who has three people be mean to her because of her hair??
I think having white hair as a teen would actually make her popular. I personally desperately searched for a way to turn my hair white without it all falling out soon after.
zombies was like "hmmm, we need an allegory for racism, how about we make our characters (which are supposed to represent black people) super aggressive and deadly, but the white people made a thing to control them so they're decent people now!"
I always thought the zombies were supposed to represent Jewish people. The zombies were forcefully relocated to another part of town that was poorly maintained and impoverished(Reminded me of the Jewish ghettos from ww2.) They are also forced to wear identification(stand in for the star of Davids Jews were forced to wear) but I could see how zombies are meant to represent black people.
@@Lunella08 It’s a mixture but imagery is mostly taken from segregation in america, I mean many policies taken by the nazi party were explicitly based arround USA policies at the time regarding segragation, so you can see why this movie also evoques those ideas in you. In any case, it’s disgusting how actually racist this movie gets with it’s allegories, feeding the idea that racism is born out any kind of true and logical reasons (making minorities to be actual monsters), when the real reason was the absolutely evil “slaves build our country and riches, inequality feeds our power, dehumanizing minorities feeds our ego” while white liberals praise these films as progressive and clap eachother in the back for practicing “inclusivity”
I know that the third film reveals she's an alien, but I think it'd be so funny if they didn't, and the entire franchise is just Addison finding new minority groups to attach herself to so she'll feel oppressed
@@michealjameson7579 In the third movie, at the beggining of the movie. It's after Addison and the other cheerleaders do this big cheer, and Jaycey and this other guy have romantic subtext for two seconds to the right of the screen, and then walk offscreen. Like I said, it's canon LGBT rep by Disney standards.
this story really would've been better if zed was the main character, especially with the whitewashing allegory. - have his electoral campaign be the primary focus (nixing the cheerleading stuff if possible) and have him try to help the wolves due to his own experiences with systemic oppression. - when he sees his ranking in the polls go down due to supporting the wolves, have him start whitewashing himself in order to try and have the best of both worlds, which in turn makes the wolves suspicious of his support and think he's using them as a political tactic or having ulterior motives. - have him try to prove his support is legit by trying to convince the city council to rightfully give them back their resources, which would bring addison into the conflict due to the fact that her rich parents probably "earned" their money through monetizing those resources - have addison confronting her upbringing/privilege while also showing zed being conflicted as to whether or not a relationship with addison would work due to her hesitance to invoke actual change at the cost of her luxury - then idk addison convinces her parents to give back the resources and they have a dance party at the end?? realistically there would still be a lot more to do to actually give back reparations but hey! disney said "tHiS iS a KiDs MoViE" so it *has* to have a happy ending, right?
I mean...Addison's mom's the *mayor* so it's not like Zed wouldn't have easy access to the city council since he's dating Addison so it would make so much more sense and Addison wouldn't feel as shoehorned!
i keep getting distracted by how Addison kinda looks like she has dreads. and i know it’s technically not but still it makes her need to feel oppressed look worse to me cus she’s actually appropriating culture in the story by dressing like a werewolf
@@towelgirl21 that’s not… hhh nvm. But the movie was definitely cringe and Addison is one of the most annoying Disney channel movie main characters right alongside Mal.
I’ve talked about Addison being a white savior plenty of times but the way she acts in this movie felt less white savior ish and more like the mindset of every left-leaning white woman with a conservative boyfriend, as she acts like she’s being progressive but at the same time is passive aggressive. And the way she treats the werewolves afterwards is just downright gross in terms of real world examples, the zombies Halloween special ( which came after this movie ) follows the werewolves fearing that their moonstone will get taken away by vampires and while this isn’t canon it still says a lot about Addison’s character, since she quite literally tells them to try being less judgmental and think positively. She tried to live, laugh, love her way out of potential colonization and the short saw *nothing* wrong with this idea, even though there’s been an increase online of white people telling poc to get over tragedies like this. It’s just embarrassing
@@SharkUsingaComputer I genuinely don’t know, they have no racially coded signifiers like language or clothing. They just are vampires who want to steal artifacts from indigenous peoples Yk what maybe they’re British
@@SharkUsingaComputer Gay people? Because of bloodborne diseases? Or at least people *think* vampires will get them sick or prey on children even if that was just some old anti-vampire propaganda. Just spitballing, don't take me seriously.
@@thedeliveryboy1123 Considering the fact that the humans were already meant to represent racist white Americans in tone and story, it feels weird to have them be European.
Eliza wants to let out her "inner beast" (essentially she wants to be more connected to parts of herself and express them without being shunned by society) and Willa is the one who preaches embracing her "monster" side and takes pride in her identity, making them the perfect team and also wives. In this essay I will-
if you have a “lefty-violent” character, at least make them do something?? or stick to their morals??? why didn’t eliza run or president when she’s a much stronger leader and more into that stuff than zed. and why was she saying that stuff to the wearwolves with zed?? it just seemed SO out of character. justice for eliza because wtf was she doing in this movie???
@@fangirldreamer748 i’ve hated these types of “werewolves” too cause it feels like a half-baked excuse. But the racism allegory makes me hate it even more
I don’t think the movie had that type of budget but even if they did it they would probably look like abominations. Even the Twilight werewolf’s CGI didn’t look great to begin with and those are theatrical movies.
furry, native and punk? i love them. also why is high school cheerleading treated like its a life changing political career route? is cheerleading at 16 THAT serious in america?
Wait til the third movie, where, spoilers, a cheerleading trophy is the most important object in the whole town. More important than the moonstone that gives all the werewolves their powers.
so is everywhere else just...normal? like this place just has zombies and werewolves and stuff and then just like...kansas as it is now exists? and new york? could a zombie just move and not be seen as a zombie because everywhere else would assume theyre just a dude with green hair and insomnia?
I’m watching this video because I LIKE ZOMBIES and not because i have a balls ginormous crush on this man. That would never happen. I am a zombies FAN. I know all the characters. Zombie Zombie girl Main boy zombie Blonde…alien…werewolf…chick? Male cheerleader
Weird detail from the native american coding for the werewolves, during the song where Addison get's introduced to the werewolves (call to the wild? 30:56), in the choreography they include tinikling (the dance where they are jumping over sticks) which is a traditional Filipino dance. Which is just really weird? They're really devoted to the 1 to 1 native american coding of the werewolves so its just weird that they would do this.
As someone who has watched all 3 Zombies movies the fact that Addison tried to be oppressed every movie was is probably the realest part aside from all the real history, and in the last one where she finds out she is
Tbh I disagree with the “it’s just theirs” in regard to the moon stone, Bc if that was the case, the same logic could be applied to the British Museum.
ah yes, another installation of White Savior, the series. it's truly impressive how the writers of the trilogy are so committed to ending racism while maintaining racist caricatures of marginalized peoples. it's so so bad. can't wait for you to review the third movie. or as i like to call it, The Great Adoptee Trauma Retcon movie. great video as usual!
I find it odd that they didn't make the racial metaphor more explicit with the zombies. The modern zombie originated in the Caribbean as a metaphor for slavery. It was created by slaves who continued to practice their religions after being brought over. The idea being that forcing slaves to cooperate was akin to using magic to force a corpse to do your bidding. Werewolves are more of an eastern European thing anyway.
I know people keep ripping on Zed for being selfish and taking Addison’s necklace and I get that, but I think Zed’s anger and jealousy of the werewolves is justified. He put all of this work in the first movie to end segregation and is still facing every worst reaction possible. And when the werewolves enter the school, they are treated better than the zombies. Pros: zombies 1 helped the werewolves receive better treatment. Cons: the zombies are still treated badly. That is frustrating. Eliza’s advocation could work if they expanded her storyline. I wish she got more attention than Addison so we see more of what she is fighting for than her just saying it every fee seconds.
I think it's a good thing to talk about too, if Disney was actually cool with dunking on institutionalized racism and all. Zed's lack of support was wrong, but his feelings on the matter weren't. And the reason why he's even been put in such a position is because of the society (humans) around him. Humans interfering in their relationships (Zombies and Werewolves) is what causes that issue in the first place, if humans just left zombies alone *and* accepted the werewolves then everything would've been fine. Instead they make it seem like it can only be one or the other, and that they only had the ability to be kind to one group. They demonize the zombies again once the werewolves come, and reinforce the idea that their treatment is only relative to the werewolves. But all that is too much for a corporation like Disney, so whatever.
if you have a “lefty-violent” character, at least make them do something?? or stick to their morals??? why didn’t eliza run or president when she’s a much stronger leader and more into that stuff than zed. and why was she saying that stuff to the wearwolves with zed?? it just seemed SO out of character. justice for eliza because wtf was she doing in this movie???
@@imjustasconfusedasyou I do agree she should have done more, but I feel a lot of her strength, aside from her convictions was standing with Zed. So I wanted her to run for president, but have zed be her vice president instead of the other way around. They did well together versus doing it alone, if that makes any sense. But they did do her dirty. They focused so much in Addison instead of the actual black characters that the movies were siding with.
When I first watched this movie I thought the message with Addison was “just because your different doesn’t mean your oppressed.” 💀 imagine my surprise when the third movie came out.
I find the sequel's conflict of werewolves portrayed as indigenous people to be terrible. That is until the third movie where they jumped the shark with the existence of aliens. At least 'the alpha' subplot is better than the entirety of Alpha and Omega. So btw, the moonstone. What are Disney projects outside their main studio like made for television and direct to video, as in the first sequel obsessed with moonstones? It was a decade after the second Tinkerbell movie having a moonstone as the macguffin, and it takes place in Autumn, but let's continue the moonstone shit! The Zombies franchise always give us the message saying "racism bad" even though Zootopia did it correctly in spite of the movie's twist villain. My life will be complete when the third entry is finally reviewed.
Zootopia also did a poor job, not as bad as this one but that's a low bar lol. Still has the issue of comparing human races (literally no exclusive difference except cosmetic) with different species of animals (no fucking way a fox should be in the same building as a rabbit if you want the rabbit to live. Even more so having tiny animals together with massive ones. If they're sapient like in zootopia it's not as bad, but it also begs the question: what can a carnivore eat if they can't eat prey? It'd be a hellhole). Only racism metaphor I've found that seems to work is from a random ass magical girl anime that may not have even done it on purpose. Because it seems like when you're going to talk about racism in your story, by the time you're trying to distance yourself from the reality of it you're probably going to go the extra mile and cut off from reality entirely lol.
The line "she's a cheerleader, not an alpha" always makes me laugh lol, it really shows how ridiculous and campy these movies can be. Also "Flesh & Bone" is a little overplayed but still good. Disney Channel has a series of shorts where animated characters sing parodies of actual songs ("Call Me Mabel" for instance), and they had the Big City Greens characters sing a parody of that song called "Stuck At Home", for the pandemic. It played alllll the time, I heard it so much. And yes, I was watching Disney Channel at the age of 16 lol
i am so happy you uploaded this video because the whole Z-O-M-B-I-E-S lore really intrigues me but i cannot for the love of god sit through these movies
In the scene where the werewolves give Addison the necklace and she does that dance with the long sticks (I’m really sorry I just learned about this not too long ago) that’s an actual Filipino dance called Tinikling
I find that Disney channel trilogies have a formula like the first has the best plot, the second has the best songs, and the third is the worst. This is usually due to the first one not being restrained by the created universe, the second is when the actors get confident in their singing, and the third is shoehorned in there because money.
The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films had it much worse. There are twelve Tarzan films which featured Johnny Weissmuller as an in name only version of Tarzan. Four out of the first six films aren’t too bad, even though the third one’s the weakest, but the second one has the best plot, despite being meddled quite a lot. Four of the other six are still mid, even though Tarzan and the Leopard Woman has a plot nearly as good as that of Tarzan Finds a Son, whereas the last and worst one is Tarzan and the Mermaids.
Addison: you were discriminated, segregation, isolated, oppressed, and you were kicked off your own homeland, had one of the most important things stolen from you and it literally keeps you alive and while your people were dying the colonists were profiting and getting rich, and both off you probably faced all sorts of serious mental issues as well as physical ones BUT I HAVE WHITE HAIR SO I RELATE BECAUSE I’M WERIOD AND NOT NORMAL
hey hikeilokei its the albino girl with the white hair from the last Zombies vid lol Again, I get it’s just a Disney channel movie but I genuinely don’t get the white hair oppression plot of addison 💀 like yeah it’s common for young ppl with white hair (by having albinism lol) to get bullied for it and feel inclined to dye their eye, eyebrows, etc. but that’s because of actual ableism 😭 and more often than not we’ve had ppl say how they WANT that color, and isn’t rly light/ platinum blonde hair a current trend anyway?? I’m also scared for the 3rd movie review if we got racism from zombies 1 and 2, what minority group are the aliens gonna portray in the 3rd one holy shit lmaooo
Part of why I think this movie fails is mainly that it fails as a musical. It's sounds like all the numbers halted the tension and delayed the plot but good musicals are supposed to do the opposite! In a good musical, the most tense scenes are supposed to have added dramatic affect from the music. Characters in a good musical will die in major songs, fall in love, have life altering conversations, make tortured decisions and resolve conflicts and tension in a climax! This level of plot importance in every song makes the audience much more accepting of the music not only because it gives them a reason to pay attention to the music and helps with suspension of disbelief. It changes how they think of the narrative. When you hear a song start you're not supposed to think "oh we're hearing a vibe related song now" it's meant to be "oh shit it's about to GO DOWN". Of course, Disney channel thinks every song should have independent radio pliability and it pissed me off bc this mentality has made the popular opinion of musicals negative! It's a really interesting form of dramaturgy that's been ruined by late stage capitalism.
I actually got a streak of white hair when I was 16 (that I still have) and, I shit you not, I got nothing but compliments and half of those people just thought I dyed it.
- it's finally here!!! - are wyatt an willa siblings?? i literally have not watched that movie since it came out, i only listen to the songs so me erasing that fact from my memory is entirely possible - also "what do you mean logic is mixed?" hilarious - it always baffles me how addison manages to make everything about her lmao, like what? also, i can suspend my disbelief, but at every point the plot of this movie made no sense. like it never did. every story beat gets contradicted in the following scene, it's insane
I guess addison being the chosen one in pretty much all of the movies erks me so much. She feels like a pick me. Edit: the music is banger though Edit 2: well she definitely self inserts herself alot and acts like the chosen one alot Edit 3: 27:52 yes i appreciate the reference and tbh it is like that... Just alot less... Death 😅
Isn't she only the chosen one in the third movie in the first movie zed is more of the chosen one and in the second movie she is revealed to not be a werewolf or interesting
Got this recommended to me after watching Danny Gonzalez's ZOMBIES video, and immediately subscribed to you!! Can't wait for the thrilling conclusion of this series.
Zombie Crime #4: Trespassing Zombie Crime #5: Domestic Terrorism ...well that escalated quickly. I swear, half this movie is just the writers trying to justify why Addison is in fact oppressed because she's a platinum blonde and the other half is acts of terrorism and/or war that do not have the consequences they should.
Damn, I hate Addison so much. Like SO much. They picked the whitest girl imaginable to play her, then made her even WHITER, and then made her into the ultimate white saviour- physically AND narratively. Also, the reason I love your ZOMBIES videos is because of the kind of line "she stops playing Native American and goes back to being white" bc you replacing the film's conflicts with the IRL allegories is such a great and hilarious way to show how bad the film is.
You know, the more I see this review, the more I wondered how it would be if Alison was the villain. The story of a white girl with a white savior syndrome mixed with a "not like other people" syndrome that messed with people lives pretending to help them, and then gets defeated by these people cause they can't stand her. Thay would be cool.
the part of Addison saying she's an outsider for her white hair is so funny to me bc... it's barely even white. it's like a platinum IF THAT. they put a wellaT18 toner on her hair and was like "good enough" she's the equivalent of ppl who have freckles making a big deal about being bullied in school for it
also side note I rlly want to know wtf is going on with Addison so I this video was great advertising for me to hate watch zombies 3 so I can finish the story line
also through the entire first movie she hid it (with the wig) and she literally chose to take it off, like i feel bad for her i guess but she needs to be fr 😭😭😭😭
@@dabiskitt i know some ppl with super extra full-body freckles who got teased in elementary school. not, like, harassment and abuse levels of bullying though. certainly not a racism treatment
so we got in this series so far: white people represented by humans ("normal" sorta) black people represented by zombies ("dangerous" in the first movie) native people represented by werewolves ("power hungry" kinda and also animalistic) love racial steriotypes (dont worry im mostly /j) also it would be really cool to be a werewolf (i would prefice this with *"as a native person"* but thats like effing pretentious lmfao)
Can Addison just not dye her hair if she cares that much? Also, the fact that the werewolves don’t have a wolf form irks me. If this wasn’t a Disney movie it could’ve been so much more than dance battling. The wolves just growl and show their fangs. At least the Zombies do something.
I don't know what it is that makes me burst out a lung from laughing when I listen to your commentaries, but I can't get enough! I'll watch Zombies 3 as preparation!
Here’s a better plot: scarp the Native American analogy. Have the town government pay the werewolves to show up (they can be real or fake who cares) and then monster laws a reinstated because the town government is racist. Have the whole movie be about the discovery of the mystery.
I have a suggestion (if you’re open to that kind of thing?) If you have Paramount+, you should review School Spirits. I thought it was pretty good, but I think you’re take on it would be pretty funny/cool
If I had a nickel for every time a dcom couple didn’t kiss until the second movie, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but weird that it happened twice
i like to think the rap battle election between zed and bucky was inspired by hamilton the only difference being at least in hamilton the rap's had a point to it and wasnt just for rhyming and head bopping
The absolute worst part by far was that they portrayed the zombies and werewolves as monsters, they’ve killed people, without the z-band their just mindless creatures, they’ve committed several crimes, and more. I can not state how much I despise it when movies want to metaphorically shown racism they turn them into non-humans and the white savior complex. They don’t solve their own problems, fucking Addison does. That’s what makes it a terrible allegory, they aren’t people their monsters.
The building shown at 8:14 is a building at the university I attended. I knew nothing about this movie because I don't have cable tv. But I remember during the pandemic when the 3rd movie was filmed, and I tried to sneak out behind my parents' back to hopefully land as an extra in a Disney movie for bragging rights. I did not manage to sneak out and, therefore, never ended up in the movie, and after actually hearing what these movies are like, maybe it's a good thing I'll never be associated with this shit.
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The Z-O-M-B-I-E-S movies is just Addison trying to fit in with every minority group
It feels like it was written by a white girl who identifies as African American because she has one black great-great-great Grand Uncle.
Cant wait for the fourth movie where Addison takes a dna test and finds out she’s 0.0008% mermaid or smth
@@nyxcat3621 what would you do if I told you the 3rd one reveals her grandma is an alien…
@@SirAsdf Or a white girl who thinks being female makes her a minority (as a black girl, I've known many of those)
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1: WOWWWWW, SPOILERS BROOO
2: what.
If I had a nickel for every popular teen franchise that characterized Native Americans as werewolves, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
What's the other one?
@@skydragonslayer9820 twilight
@@kolcheks oh really? I've never seen nor read Twilight so I thought it was just about Vampires. Didn't know werewolves were even involved. Thanks for answering my question.
Well is it any better than appropriating Native American culture as vampire lore and create a really long book series centered around this?
@@skydragonslayer9820 the two love interests, edward and jacob are vampire and werewolf
i think, havent seen or read it
The Z-O-M-B-I-E-S trilogy is like that one PSA that sucks ass yet you’re still required to watch it.
With rad bops tho.
@@UchihaKat They're definitely songs in the movie, that's for sure.
Not me here thinking you said PSA as in "Prostatic-Specific Antigen", I was so confused
That’s exactly it
Exactly. It's boring and whadda snoozefest.
Love how Addison went from a stark white plastic wig to a sudden natural platinum blonde instead
Had to make it conventionally pretty now that it’s the main wig!
It just looks like she bleached it tbh
So no one calls out Addison for going full "my great-grandmother was a Native American princess" when she's revealed she's not a werewolf huh...
She’s 0.04% Cherokee she should be allowed to howl with them
She pulled the classic white family move that they had one Native American person in the family tree they can have a dream catcher and say some racist sh!t to native groups
@@basementdwellercosplay DREAM CATCHERS ARE CULTURAL?!
@@emptybrainedwriter YES 😭😭 I DIDNT KNOW EITHER UNTIL MY SISTER CALLED ME RACIST
@@alanerrrrofavalor little me would cry at that fact tbh
“SHE’S STILL OPRESSED!” In the thumbnail is taking me out 🤣🤣🤣
I’m ngl I giggled to myself a little while making it
Same XD
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addison’s white hair looks blond like her victim complex is so big
when you find out in the third movie she is actually an immigr- I mean, alien :v
Haven't seen the films but in pictures I didn't even notice it was an "unnatural" hair color.
@@towelgirl21 if they made her hair blue like it turns into in the third movie it would've worked a lot better.
@@towelgirl21it’s literally just a lighter version of her blonde wig idk how it’s supposed to be unappealing or hideous when there are kids that dye their hair that color lol it’s supposed to represent something that’s out of the ordinary in a “perfect squeaky clean small town” but Disney kinda failed in that department honestly
it was so much whiter in the first one but I guess they had to get a longer-lasting & so more natural color for this one
It's incredibly bold of this franchise that focuses on several racial discrimination allegories to center almost all of its conflicts around the white girl. It only gets worse with the 3rd one, though, so I'm excited(?) to see when you'll cover that one. Good review!
It kinda makes sense for a Disney movie to be that way, considering Walt was such a paternalist.
Why was addisons hair such a big deal though? I think Disney really missed that mark and it wasn’t the win they thought it was lol She wasn’t treated differently or discriminated against yet she acts like she’s just as oppressed as the werewolves and zombies lol like _oh wow! her hair is _*_2_*_ shades lighter now??? how terribly sad that she’ll now be called “snowball” for the rest of her life!😨_
The regionally indigenous humans (including various kinds of native Americans) as werewolves (or any other fantasy beast) concept is interesting, but it is terribly overused without twists or turns, in a way that disaffects everyone but the most vanilla minded of humans. I’m not pleased with such blatant overuse!
@@Isabel-sr8ep I feel like that is similar to something that happened in one season of yugioh of all things, where in the first few episodes, everyone talks about how much Yuya's dad leaving marked him as a failure, and then never bring it up again as far as I know. Like, I think they were gonna do something and then forgot
@@Isabel-sr8ept would have a lot more sense if she had a bad scar or something. You know body positivity, but no, everyone has to be pretty 😑
I wish the series continued. I want 20 movies with poorly done allegories for bigotry using weird versions of classical monsters.
You can never have too many gay vampires.
She/They Mermaids🤬
you most definitely can have to many gay vampires because the movies will become campy thus making them gay campires--BlenderFucker_
I wish every YA romance novel about vampires knew that
“You can never have enough gay vampires.” What We Do In the Shadows’s inspiration
Gay vampires.
Trans mermaids.
Jewish mummies.
Disabled fairies.
Asian sea monsters.
Let’s keep it coming.
Edit: (added)
Hispanic elves @kirbee 🐝
Mentally ill demons @Deen
Pacific Islander plant monsters @jstarstudios
So not a single person who had a hand in writing these movies stopped for a second to think that maybe comparing minorities to monsters isn't the key to ending racism
No time for thinking when there's money to be made 🥺
It's like Extra credits but worse.
Absolutely insane how Addison thinks having white hair is the same as being systematically oppressed💀
The worst part is that they could’ve actually improved on this in this movie. Just have Addison self identify as a werewolf, she has to abide by the racist monster laws, and then she sees what the actual zombies and werewolves have to go through.
I said the same thing lol she wants to fit in sooo bad it’s actually sad if you think about it like imagine if you told her to her face that she has white priv- (oh my bad this is Disney channel oops!)
*human privilege*
She would get so mad and go on a rant how she’s so different and treated so unfairly meanwhile the zombies were thrown out of the town in the first movie and the werewolf’s were automatically slapped with a label that they are all dangerous monsters or sum shit I bet the most Addison gets is some kid going
“Ha white hair 🫵😂” and that’s it
Yeah thats one thing I can't ignore. As a fan of these movies I wish they didn’t focus so much on Addisons white hair. In the one of the movies Zed points this out and its framed as something wrong??????
The only other character from a franchise that has white hair that I enjoy is Lincoln Loud from the Loud House. The Loud house treats it as normal.
Homegirl really said that her being bullied by a few people is worse than racism, I can't
She’s literally the equivalent of people who say that reverse racism exists 😭
who was even bullying her?? she’s literally THE popular girl at the school???
@@imjustasconfusedasyouliterally. She was so only bullied by like the three cheerleaders that Bucky’s friends with but that’s it.
Ok so hear me out… Zombies were an allegory for black people, and the humans think are afraid of them for being strong and aggressive, and think their hair is wacky and strange. That’s a bit to close to reality with the amount of discrimination there is simply for having black hairstyles. Now, we’ve got werewolves, an allegory for Native Americans, and everyone is scared of them because of their barbaric behavior and animal spirit practices. Sound familiar? It’s a little too on-the-nose for me. I haven’t seen the third with the aliens but if I swear to god if they are an allegory for immigrants I’m going to lose my mind.
edit: I am aware that the third movie is an immigrant allegory, you don’t need to keep telling me lmao
NOOO IF THEY DO THAT I WILL BE KMS omg
i would suggest not watching the third... i'm dearly sorry for you
(but you hit the nail on the head i'm sorry they are an allegory)
Alien=Immigrant
@@notoriouslyskyr autistic, sadly
(Note; i am autistic and exhausted by people calling us aliens)
YOULL NEVER GUESS WHAT
I would like the ZOMBIES franchise to do a whole "kid-friendly" WWII story
We will be seated
Wonder what monster they would pick to represent the jewish people :/
@@rockhistoria2537 oh no lol
@@rockhistoria2537it would be so stupid if they were represented by a mythical creature with infamous antisemitic origins it would almost be funny
@@rockhistoria2537 they would 100% choose the little elf that lives at the end of the rainbow ( What are those called?)
I LOVE (no i don't) how in every movie Addison feels the need to insert herself into serious racial issues. "My hair is white so I'm actually just like you" to the respective race allegory, Is like a white person saying "My hair is curly so I'm just like you" to a black person.
Like Addison, honey, sweetheart, you wear a wig because you have white hair, Zombies were forced into segregation and discrimination and the only way for them to desegregate everything is to show that they boost the morale of their oppressors, and Werewolves were removed from their homeland by settlers who claimed it as their own and abused their resources for profit. You are not the same 💀
But it's the most realistic part of the movie
Her saying “I don’t fit in at school :(“ while an entire minority group is being wiped out was crazyyy
Wait until you see the 3rd movie 💀 it gets worse with the aliens
It’s not even like her experiences are invalid either, but she keeps acting like they’re just as bad as what the zombies are going through??
Like this plot point COULD have worked if they used it instead as a gate way for empathy (comparing the sentiment but also understanding your experiences are *not* the same) instead of “I’m just like you guys :(“.
So instead of getting solidarity we got… this shit.
@@Vivigreeny25 That’s what gets me! You could so easily show her having negative experiences because of her hair being different and have that be the initial draw of empathy for understanding the zombies and werewolves, without actually comparing their situations. Her experience is valid (if the writers actually showed more of it, that is) but hooo boi who thought it was a good idea to center all these racial allegories on a white girl who has three people be mean to her because of her hair??
I think having white hair as a teen would actually make her popular. I personally desperately searched for a way to turn my hair white without it all falling out soon after.
zombies was like "hmmm, we need an allegory for racism, how about we make our characters (which are supposed to represent black people) super aggressive and deadly, but the white people made a thing to control them so they're decent people now!"
exactly, so foul
I always thought the zombies were supposed to represent Jewish people. The zombies were forcefully relocated to another part of town that was poorly maintained and impoverished(Reminded me of the Jewish ghettos from ww2.) They are also forced to wear identification(stand in for the star of Davids Jews were forced to wear) but I could see how zombies are meant to represent black people.
@@Lunella08 I don't think there was a specific race for the zombies. They were supposed to just be any racial minority
@@montereyjackcheesestick8912 Yeah, now that I think about it they were just a mash up of different minority groups.
@@Lunella08 It’s a mixture but imagery is mostly taken from segregation in america, I mean many policies taken by the nazi party were explicitly based arround USA policies at the time regarding segragation, so you can see why this movie also evoques those ideas in you.
In any case, it’s disgusting how actually racist this movie gets with it’s allegories, feeding the idea that racism is born out any kind of true and logical reasons (making minorities to be actual monsters), when the real reason was the absolutely evil “slaves build our country and riches, inequality feeds our power, dehumanizing minorities feeds our ego” while white liberals praise these films as progressive and clap eachother in the back for practicing “inclusivity”
I know that the third film reveals she's an alien, but I think it'd be so funny if they didn't, and the entire franchise is just Addison finding new minority groups to attach herself to so she'll feel oppressed
much more realistic
I think Jacey deserves to inherit the title of gay because he somehow manages to out-zest Bucky, a nigh impossible feat
And he """"""canonically"""""""" has a boyfriend in the third movie. Canonical in Disney's standards.
@@ElizabethMidfordHatesCops Wait, what? When was that mentioned?
@@michealjameson7579 In the third movie, at the beggining of the movie. It's after Addison and the other cheerleaders do this big cheer, and Jaycey and this other guy have romantic subtext for two seconds to the right of the screen, and then walk offscreen. Like I said, it's canon LGBT rep by Disney standards.
this story really would've been better if zed was the main character, especially with the whitewashing allegory.
- have his electoral campaign be the primary focus (nixing the cheerleading stuff if possible) and have him try to help the wolves due to his own experiences with systemic oppression.
- when he sees his ranking in the polls go down due to supporting the wolves, have him start whitewashing himself in order to try and have the best of both worlds, which in turn makes the wolves suspicious of his support and think he's using them as a political tactic or having ulterior motives.
- have him try to prove his support is legit by trying to convince the city council to rightfully give them back their resources, which would bring addison into the conflict due to the fact that her rich parents probably "earned" their money through monetizing those resources
- have addison confronting her upbringing/privilege while also showing zed being conflicted as to whether or not a relationship with addison would work due to her hesitance to invoke actual change at the cost of her luxury
- then idk addison convinces her parents to give back the resources and they have a dance party at the end?? realistically there would still be a lot more to do to actually give back reparations but hey! disney said "tHiS iS a KiDs MoViE" so it *has* to have a happy ending, right?
that wouldve been a way better movie tbh :O
they need u in the writer’s room
I mean...Addison's mom's the *mayor* so it's not like Zed wouldn't have easy access to the city council since he's dating Addison so it would make so much more sense and Addison wouldn't feel as shoehorned!
Man if you don’t get in that writers room
@@a1m3vFR
I will pay money for this
wait till you watch the third one and realise it may or may not be a metaphor for immigration...
I already written the video for the 3rd one. Spoiler alert! I hated it!
@@hikeilokei WHOOHOO
i keep getting distracted by how Addison kinda looks like she has dreads. and i know it’s technically not but still it makes her need to feel oppressed look worse to me cus she’s actually appropriating culture in the story by dressing like a werewolf
I’ve been wanting to say this like these movies are so ridiculous about serious topics and yet ppl will be confused that we’re mad…
That followed by, "you'll never be cheer captain with hair like that." Speechless lmao.
@@black.crystal.ballll FOR REAL LIKE THE WRITERS MUST’VE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING CUS HELLO???
@@towelgirl21 that’s not… hhh nvm.
But the movie was definitely cringe and Addison is one of the most annoying Disney channel movie main characters right alongside Mal.
Thank you and she ain’t even know if she was a werewolf yet??
I’ve talked about Addison being a white savior plenty of times but the way she acts in this movie felt less white savior ish and more like the mindset of every left-leaning white woman with a conservative boyfriend, as she acts like she’s being progressive but at the same time is passive aggressive. And the way she treats the werewolves afterwards is just downright gross in terms of real world examples, the zombies Halloween special ( which came after this movie ) follows the werewolves fearing that their moonstone will get taken away by vampires and while this isn’t canon it still says a lot about Addison’s character, since she quite literally tells them to try being less judgmental and think positively. She tried to live, laugh, love her way out of potential colonization and the short saw *nothing* wrong with this idea, even though there’s been an increase online of white people telling poc to get over tragedies like this. It’s just embarrassing
oh god, what weird race allegory would vampires be
@@SharkUsingaComputer I genuinely don’t know, they have no racially coded signifiers like language or clothing. They just are vampires who want to steal artifacts from indigenous peoples
Yk what maybe they’re British
@@SharkUsingaComputer Gay people? Because of bloodborne diseases? Or at least people *think* vampires will get them sick or prey on children even if that was just some old anti-vampire propaganda. Just spitballing, don't take me seriously.
@@SharkUsingaComputer
id say Europeans but tbh it just doesn't seem like it
@@thedeliveryboy1123 Considering the fact that the humans were already meant to represent racist white Americans in tone and story, it feels weird to have them be European.
Eliza wants to let out her "inner beast" (essentially she wants to be more connected to parts of herself and express them without being shunned by society) and Willa is the one who preaches embracing her "monster" side and takes pride in her identity, making them the perfect team and also wives. In this essay I will-
Better writing than the random partner Willa got in Z3 tbh
@@hikeilokei Absolutely, I hated that part of Z3
Watched this movie series with my 5th grade sister every day last summer and I became a Willason shipper at the end of summer
if you have a “lefty-violent” character, at least make them do something?? or stick to their morals??? why didn’t eliza run or president when she’s a much stronger leader and more into that stuff than zed. and why was she saying that stuff to the wearwolves with zed?? it just seemed SO out of character. justice for eliza because wtf was she doing in this movie???
I know this isn't the issue at all but...do the werewolves not have a wolf form?
They do not!
Werewolves are half human and half wolf. These werewolves don’t look like wolf-men.
@@fangirldreamer748 i’ve hated these types of “werewolves” too cause it feels like a half-baked excuse. But the racism allegory makes me hate it even more
Dude even those "alpha" werewolves from shitty romance novels have a wolf form.
I don’t think the movie had that type of budget but even if they did it they would probably look like abominations. Even the Twilight werewolf’s CGI didn’t look great to begin with and those are theatrical movies.
Addison is LITERALLY the White “Cherokee Princess”
furry, native and punk? i love them.
also why is high school cheerleading treated like its a life changing political career route? is cheerleading at 16 THAT serious in america?
Wait til the third movie, where, spoilers, a cheerleading trophy is the most important object in the whole town. More important than the moonstone that gives all the werewolves their powers.
@@ofthewilderwoods that town if just full of people who peaked in highschool, there’s no way💀💀
Apparently only in the town the movies takes place because "teen movies"
I feel like they were trying to go for an Edward Scissorhands-esque parody of surburban teenage high school tropes, but it didn't work very well.
bro my school didn’t even have a cheerleading team 😭
so is everywhere else just...normal? like this place just has zombies and werewolves and stuff and then just like...kansas as it is now exists? and new york? could a zombie just move and not be seen as a zombie because everywhere else would assume theyre just a dude with green hair and insomnia?
Who knows, maybe Seabrook is the only place left after the apocalypse and the rest of America is just no man's land.
I’m watching this video because I LIKE ZOMBIES and not because i have a balls ginormous crush on this man. That would never happen. I am a zombies FAN. I know all the characters.
Zombie
Zombie girl
Main boy zombie
Blonde…alien…werewolf…chick?
Male cheerleader
They should make a fourth movie about being biracial with a character who was always too zombie for werewolves and too werewolf for zombies
Also is dying your hair the zombie equivalent of skin bleaching
This implies dying your hair green is the equivalent to blackface
"they just insult each other, never even once talk about their actual plataform", yeah, this part was realistic tho
Weird detail from the native american coding for the werewolves, during the song where Addison get's introduced to the werewolves (call to the wild? 30:56), in the choreography they include tinikling (the dance where they are jumping over sticks) which is a traditional Filipino dance. Which is just really weird? They're really devoted to the 1 to 1 native american coding of the werewolves so its just weird that they would do this.
Not the first time natives are characterized as werewolves, STEPHENIE MEYER
As someone who has watched all 3 Zombies movies the fact that Addison tried to be oppressed every movie was is probably the realest part aside from all the real history, and in the last one where she finds out she is
Tbh I disagree with the “it’s just theirs” in regard to the moon stone, Bc if that was the case, the same logic could be applied to the British Museum.
Rest In Peace, Gay.
Gone, but not forgotten.
ah yes, another installation of White Savior, the series. it's truly impressive how the writers of the trilogy are so committed to ending racism while maintaining racist caricatures of marginalized peoples. it's so so bad. can't wait for you to review the third movie. or as i like to call it, The Great Adoptee Trauma Retcon movie.
great video as usual!
I find it odd that they didn't make the racial metaphor more explicit with the zombies. The modern zombie originated in the Caribbean as a metaphor for slavery. It was created by slaves who continued to practice their religions after being brought over. The idea being that forcing slaves to cooperate was akin to using magic to force a corpse to do your bidding.
Werewolves are more of an eastern European thing anyway.
probably because that would make it a lot worse
I know people keep ripping on Zed for being selfish and taking Addison’s necklace and I get that, but I think Zed’s anger and jealousy of the werewolves is justified.
He put all of this work in the first movie to end segregation and is still facing every worst reaction possible. And when the werewolves enter the school, they are treated better than the zombies. Pros: zombies 1 helped the werewolves receive better treatment. Cons: the zombies are still treated badly. That is frustrating.
Eliza’s advocation could work if they expanded her storyline. I wish she got more attention than Addison so we see more of what she is fighting for than her just saying it every fee seconds.
I think it's a good thing to talk about too, if Disney was actually cool with dunking on institutionalized racism and all. Zed's lack of support was wrong, but his feelings on the matter weren't. And the reason why he's even been put in such a position is because of the society (humans) around him.
Humans interfering in their relationships (Zombies and Werewolves) is what causes that issue in the first place, if humans just left zombies alone *and* accepted the werewolves then everything would've been fine. Instead they make it seem like it can only be one or the other, and that they only had the ability to be kind to one group. They demonize the zombies again once the werewolves come, and reinforce the idea that their treatment is only relative to the werewolves.
But all that is too much for a corporation like Disney, so whatever.
if you have a “lefty-violent” character, at least make them do something?? or stick to their morals??? why didn’t eliza run or president when she’s a much stronger leader and more into that stuff than zed. and why was she saying that stuff to the wearwolves with zed?? it just seemed SO out of character. justice for eliza because wtf was she doing in this movie???
@@imjustasconfusedasyou I do agree she should have done more, but I feel a lot of her strength, aside from her convictions was standing with Zed. So I wanted her to run for president, but have zed be her vice president instead of the other way around. They did well together versus doing it alone, if that makes any sense.
But they did do her dirty. They focused so much in Addison instead of the actual black characters that the movies were siding with.
When I first watched this movie I thought the message with Addison was “just because your different doesn’t mean your oppressed.” 💀 imagine my surprise when the third movie came out.
1:53 i just love when my race is compared to big scary monsters that need to be fought off
Can't wait for the 3rd movie review where you get to see the main white girl finally get the proof that she's "not like the other white girls"
I find the sequel's conflict of werewolves portrayed as indigenous people to be terrible. That is until the third movie where they jumped the shark with the existence of aliens. At least 'the alpha' subplot is better than the entirety of Alpha and Omega. So btw, the moonstone. What are Disney projects outside their main studio like made for television and direct to video, as in the first sequel obsessed with moonstones? It was a decade after the second Tinkerbell movie having a moonstone as the macguffin, and it takes place in Autumn, but let's continue the moonstone shit! The Zombies franchise always give us the message saying "racism bad" even though Zootopia did it correctly in spite of the movie's twist villain. My life will be complete when the third entry is finally reviewed.
kid... sorry to break this to you... but zootopia did a bad job too :/
Zootopia also did a poor job, not as bad as this one but that's a low bar lol. Still has the issue of comparing human races (literally no exclusive difference except cosmetic) with different species of animals (no fucking way a fox should be in the same building as a rabbit if you want the rabbit to live. Even more so having tiny animals together with massive ones. If they're sapient like in zootopia it's not as bad, but it also begs the question: what can a carnivore eat if they can't eat prey? It'd be a hellhole). Only racism metaphor I've found that seems to work is from a random ass magical girl anime that may not have even done it on purpose. Because it seems like when you're going to talk about racism in your story, by the time you're trying to distance yourself from the reality of it you're probably going to go the extra mile and cut off from reality entirely lol.
@@molluscumlore I think the carnivores in Zootopia ate bug-based protein but it was still pretty dumb especially since no one mentioned that.
zootopia also characterized the oppressed class as carnivorous and natural predators so i wouldn’t say it did a good job
@@molluscumlore Wait, what’s the name of the magical girl anime?
The line "she's a cheerleader, not an alpha" always makes me laugh lol, it really shows how ridiculous and campy these movies can be.
Also "Flesh & Bone" is a little overplayed but still good. Disney Channel has a series of shorts where animated characters sing parodies of actual songs ("Call Me Mabel" for instance), and they had the Big City Greens characters sing a parody of that song called "Stuck At Home", for the pandemic. It played alllll the time, I heard it so much. And yes, I was watching Disney Channel at the age of 16 lol
don't call this movie camp it doesn't deserve the title
Me too, bro. Be like: "Hi, I'm (insert name of Disney Channel actor/actress here), and *you're* watching Disney Channel." 🎵Da, Da, Da, Da🎵
I swear the writers are on Zaza when they did the lore
"I'm platnum blonde and beautiful, I'm so discriminated against for being TOO blonde and hot" -Addison, probably
Alt title for the movie.
Zombies 2: Native Americans and Tresspassing
i am so happy you uploaded this video because the whole Z-O-M-B-I-E-S lore really intrigues me but i cannot for the love of god sit through these movies
In the scene where the werewolves give Addison the necklace and she does that dance with the long sticks (I’m really sorry I just learned about this not too long ago) that’s an actual Filipino dance called Tinikling
The Zombies series is collecting cultures like infinity stones
@@captaincaspian42 bye cuz ur not wrong 😭🤚🏾
This review makes the rest of the movie better
I’m glad I could help!
Omg, can we just take a second and appreciate how amazingly edited this video is?
Thank you :)
I find that Disney channel trilogies have a formula like the first has the best plot, the second has the best songs, and the third is the worst.
This is usually due to the first one not being restrained by the created universe, the second is when the actors get confident in their singing, and the third is shoehorned in there because money.
this don’t completely apply to descendants tho cause the second had the best plot & songs
no bcs this applies for HSM too,,, they really just recycle the same formulas
The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films had it much worse. There are twelve Tarzan films which featured Johnny Weissmuller as an in name only version of Tarzan.
Four out of the first six films aren’t too bad, even though the third one’s the weakest, but the second one has the best plot, despite being meddled quite a lot. Four of the other six are still mid, even though Tarzan and the Leopard Woman has a plot nearly as good as that of Tarzan Finds a Son, whereas the last and worst one is Tarzan and the Mermaids.
Personally I think Z3 was better than Z2
Addison: you were discriminated, segregation, isolated, oppressed, and you were kicked off your own homeland, had one of the most important things stolen from you and it literally keeps you alive and while your people were dying the colonists were profiting and getting rich, and both off you probably faced all sorts of serious mental issues as well as physical ones BUT I HAVE WHITE HAIR SO I RELATE BECAUSE I’M WERIOD AND NOT NORMAL
hey hikeilokei its the albino girl with the white hair from the last Zombies vid lol
Again, I get it’s just a Disney channel movie but I genuinely don’t get the white hair oppression plot of addison 💀 like yeah it’s common for young ppl with white hair (by having albinism lol) to get bullied for it and feel inclined to dye their eye, eyebrows, etc. but that’s because of actual ableism 😭 and more often than not we’ve had ppl say how they WANT that color, and isn’t rly light/ platinum blonde hair a current trend anyway??
I’m also scared for the 3rd movie review if we got racism from zombies 1 and 2, what minority group are the aliens gonna portray in the 3rd one holy shit lmaooo
Spoiler alert they're immigrants
I'm pretty sure the lore reason for her having white hair is because she's half alien
poor nixie.. and the squishmallow family couldn’t even sneak away from you cus they cant drive the car, they have no hands :(
Part of why I think this movie fails is mainly that it fails as a musical. It's sounds like all the numbers halted the tension and delayed the plot but good musicals are supposed to do the opposite! In a good musical, the most tense scenes are supposed to have added dramatic affect from the music. Characters in a good musical will die in major songs, fall in love, have life altering conversations, make tortured decisions and resolve conflicts and tension in a climax! This level of plot importance in every song makes the audience much more accepting of the music not only because it gives them a reason to pay attention to the music and helps with suspension of disbelief. It changes how they think of the narrative. When you hear a song start you're not supposed to think "oh we're hearing a vibe related song now" it's meant to be "oh shit it's about to GO DOWN". Of course, Disney channel thinks every song should have independent radio pliability and it pissed me off bc this mentality has made the popular opinion of musicals negative! It's a really interesting form of dramaturgy that's been ruined by late stage capitalism.
*penguins of Madagascar shows up* we did it boys! Zombie racism is no more!
I actually got a streak of white hair when I was 16 (that I still have) and, I shit you not, I got nothing but compliments and half of those people just thought I dyed it.
“After a comm-“
“Grammarly can help you writing your essay”
This man is everything I want to be.
WHY ARE THE WEREWOLVES DOING TINIKLING 😭
NOT FUCKING TINIKLING😭😭😭
Oh god, the tinkling’s been overused already!
Toxic personality trait is that I’m obsessed with these movies
This series went:
Zombies, Werewolves…
FUCK IT, ALIENS!
LIKE BRO THEY COULD’VE DONE VAMPIRES OR SOMETHING ELSE-
the fact that danny gonzalez plagiarised your video was messed up
For real bro copied me bar for bar 🙄
Was it the Race Relations In Zombies video?
Movie one: Racism. Movie two: Racism + the omegaverse?
Also Addison looks like Elsa.
Please don’t say any of that
miss ma'am really out here with her white saviour complex and for what
You didn't count the crime of stealing when the werewolf girl stole the books from the library
Maybe if I had Prawn (Prom but with Shrimp) I would have actually gone.
Real! We need more shrimp themed events on our formative years!
- it's finally here!!!
- are wyatt an willa siblings?? i literally have not watched that movie since it came out, i only listen to the songs so me erasing that fact from my memory is entirely possible
- also "what do you mean logic is mixed?" hilarious
- it always baffles me how addison manages to make everything about her lmao, like what? also, i can suspend my disbelief, but at every point the plot of this movie made no sense. like it never did. every story beat gets contradicted in the following scene, it's insane
I guess addison being the chosen one in pretty much all of the movies erks me so much. She feels like a pick me.
Edit: the music is banger though
Edit 2: well she definitely self inserts herself alot and acts like the chosen one alot
Edit 3: 27:52 yes i appreciate the reference and tbh it is like that... Just alot less... Death 😅
yeah and it also gives me white savior vibes :/
@@a1m3v that too
Isn't she only the chosen one in the third movie in the first movie zed is more of the chosen one and in the second movie she is revealed to not be a werewolf or interesting
Fun fact, women could and did run for president before they could vote
Got this recommended to me after watching Danny Gonzalez's ZOMBIES video, and immediately subscribed to you!! Can't wait for the thrilling conclusion of this series.
Omg I can’t wait for the third movie review, your gonna love it in the “holy shit this sucks” way
Hope everyone is having a great day and don’t forget to like the video!
Why'd they have to make Addison look like a Targaryen LMAO
Zombie Crime #4: Trespassing
Zombie Crime #5: Domestic Terrorism
...well that escalated quickly. I swear, half this movie is just the writers trying to justify why Addison is in fact oppressed because she's a platinum blonde and the other half is acts of terrorism and/or war that do not have the consequences they should.
Damn, I hate Addison so much. Like SO much. They picked the whitest girl imaginable to play her, then made her even WHITER, and then made her into the ultimate white saviour- physically AND narratively.
Also, the reason I love your ZOMBIES videos is because of the kind of line "she stops playing Native American and goes back to being white" bc you replacing the film's conflicts with the IRL allegories is such a great and hilarious way to show how bad the film is.
I'm also surprised the zombies were even allowed to attend the assembly when ALL the anti-monster laws were reinstated.
You know, the more I see this review, the more I wondered how it would be if Alison was the villain. The story of a white girl with a white savior syndrome mixed with a "not like other people" syndrome that messed with people lives pretending to help them, and then gets defeated by these people cause they can't stand her. Thay would be cool.
They wanted to have an Andrew Tate cameo, but decided against it considering that several of the actresses were underage
Although a famously bad business, Disney still avoids many serial harassment buggers like the plague.
I’m a furry and they didn’t even try with having them look like wolves. North fur would have gladly done the makeup effects
You’re one of my new favorite video essayists!
Thank you! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying!
"...February 14th, 2020. You know it as Valentines Day, I know it as the day of the Rapture."
Finally, someone who agrees with me.
Nice video BTW.
the part of Addison saying she's an outsider for her white hair is so funny to me bc... it's barely even white. it's like a platinum IF THAT. they put a wellaT18 toner on her hair and was like "good enough" she's the equivalent of ppl who have freckles making a big deal about being bullied in school for it
also side note I rlly want to know wtf is going on with Addison so I this video was great advertising for me to hate watch zombies 3 so I can finish the story line
also through the entire first movie she hid it (with the wig) and she literally chose to take it off, like i feel bad for her i guess but she needs to be fr 😭😭😭😭
People get bullied for freckles?
Tbh i feel like having white hair would be considered cool
@@dabiskitt i know some ppl with super extra full-body freckles who got teased in elementary school. not, like, harassment and abuse levels of bullying though. certainly not a racism treatment
i think her white hair is a metaphor for being biracisal
and you're right :') (zombies 3 and etc)
It sort of is (I guess) watch the third movie you'll see
@@marcelacavalheiro2412 WAIT THERES A 3RD??? this is getting outta hand now
The "Stay out of our amazing hair 😤" line will never leave my head
so we got in this series so far:
white people represented by humans ("normal" sorta)
black people represented by zombies ("dangerous" in the first movie)
native people represented by werewolves ("power hungry" kinda and also animalistic)
love racial steriotypes (dont worry im mostly /j)
also it would be really cool to be a werewolf (i would prefice this with *"as a native person"* but thats like effing pretentious lmfao)
The problem isn't that there's allegory, it's that it's done so poorly that the message it conveys is bad.
It’s a powersource
Me. living in Colorado near pure green uranium veins: THAT SHITS RADIOACTIVE
I was waiting for this bro. Thank you!
Of course, I actually posted this specifically for you
Can Addison just not dye her hair if she cares that much? Also, the fact that the werewolves don’t have a wolf form irks me. If this wasn’t a Disney movie it could’ve been so much more than dance battling. The wolves just growl and show their fangs. At least the Zombies do something.
I don't know what it is that makes me burst out a lung from laughing when I listen to your commentaries, but I can't get enough! I'll watch Zombies 3 as preparation!
Here’s a better plot: scarp the Native American analogy. Have the town government pay the werewolves to show up (they can be real or fake who cares) and then monster laws a reinstated because the town government is racist. Have the whole movie be about the discovery of the mystery.
I have a suggestion (if you’re open to that kind of thing?) If you have Paramount+, you should review School Spirits. I thought it was pretty good, but I think you’re take on it would be pretty funny/cool
I love your editing style when you introduce characters! It’s so cool, and so satisfying.
Bucky canonicaly dies at the end of ZOMBIE 3
If I had a nickel for every time a dcom couple didn’t kiss until the second movie, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but weird that it happened twice
i like to think the rap battle election between zed and bucky was inspired by hamilton
the only difference being at least in hamilton the rap's had a point to it and wasnt just for rhyming and head bopping
The absolute worst part by far was that they portrayed the zombies and werewolves as monsters, they’ve killed people, without the z-band their just mindless creatures, they’ve committed several crimes, and more. I can not state how much I despise it when movies want to metaphorically shown racism they turn them into non-humans and the white savior complex. They don’t solve their own problems, fucking Addison does. That’s what makes it a terrible allegory, they aren’t people their monsters.
The building shown at 8:14 is a building at the university I attended. I knew nothing about this movie because I don't have cable tv. But I remember during the pandemic when the 3rd movie was filmed, and I tried to sneak out behind my parents' back to hopefully land as an extra in a Disney movie for bragging rights. I did not manage to sneak out and, therefore, never ended up in the movie, and after actually hearing what these movies are like, maybe it's a good thing I'll never be associated with this shit.
oh god you're right winter really IS like that girl from art class....