Disney’s Zombies Shouldn't Exist

I find it funny how zed was like “zombie’s have been oppressed and discriminated against for generations” and Addison is like “yeah well my blond hair is lighter than normal”.

I hate when a minority group is portrayed like this. The fact that they're literal flesh-eating zombies without this special wristband that makes them civilized actually validates all the racism coming from the humans. Zootopia has a similar problem, with the racism being based on the historical fact that predator animals used to be bloodthirsty monsters who couldn't help but kill and eat sentient prey, thus validating the prey animals' wariness of them. Real racism isn't justified, it's meaningless and arbitrary and it's based on practically nothing. There was a Star Trek episode where a race of aliens was introduced that had half of their face black and half of their face white, but there was racism based on which half was black or white, a distinction that is portrayed as meaningless and trivial, thus highlighting how stupid and pointless the racism is.

I love how they say “Zombie phobic” like know in horror movies when a zombie is chasing someone if they run and scream it’s somehow the same level as systemic racism.

Lemme just remind everyone here that an unpopular hair color was supposed to be on the same level as racism.

I have albinism, which means I actually do have white hair. It’s hilarious to me that Disney made this whole movie combating “discrimination” and then they just throw this plotline out there about the girl having a different color hair and it being a really big deal. Like they never addressed the fact that actually people do have this condition and that it has caused marginalization in our lives, not to mention the fact that almost every person with albinism is legally blind and that makes our lives harder as well. All in all, as all the other comments are saying, they messed this up really bad just like everything else, including all of the “racial” groups they coded into this thing. Good music and aesthetic though. I’m definitely watching the third one just to see how bad it is.

Addison about her hair is basically “ you think your life is hard, I’m a high school junior wearing size 13 Nikes.” “MENS size 13 Nikes”

The racism allegory falls apart for both of them bc the oppressed groups actually have a capacity to harm their oppressed beyond normal human means. The zombies could go beserk if the wristbands stop working and the werewolves are treated as almost animalistic savages. Minorities irl aren't oppressed because they could be dangerous, its because they're different

So is no one going to talk about how Addison’s hair in the first movie was full on blinding white but in the second movie it was like platinum bleach-blond?

The moment you realize this is a movie about discrimination is the moment you realize it’s gonna be terrible.

A cool twist would've been that the zombie wristbands were actually completely unnecessary and zombies could live among humans without them, and that information was covered up by years of misinformation and paranoia. Being a 'zombie' could've just been akin to a harmless genetic mutation that freaked people out before proper study could ever happen.

This movie has always rubbed me the wrong way cause it does the fictional racism/otherwise discrimination all wrong; by making it so that the zombies are actual threats, it seems like the "normals" have a reason to be fearful. If you replaced the zombies in the story for bears that can be civil if theyre wearing a funky watch, you can see where the metaphor falls apart. It also uses the female lead as a sort of white savior stand-in where the minority couldnt succeed in the end without her standing with them.

the thing which annoys me about these movies is that Maddison’s whole character arc is how she “doesn’t fit in” but she literally just has slightly lighter than blonde hair, and then you look at the zombies who have literally been discriminated their whole lives by humans it just makes Maddison seem ignorant and insensitive

Fun fact: the dance that the werewolves do with the two poles greatly resembles the traditional filipino folk dance called "tinikling" which makes you wonder why the fuck they included it in this movie

Yeah, this movie does anti racism in the most racist way possible, by making the minority groups monster that are actual threats it just undermines the whole point of the anti-racism message. I'm Native American, and the entire werewolf thing is just horrible to me. Like... There is not reparation for the land that was taken, Addison uses the equivalent of, "My great-grandmother was a Cherokee princess" argument to claim her right to the werewolf-hood and just... AGHHHH Calling Indian Coded Characters Animals and Savages and teaching them to be "Civilized" is fucking stupid as shit and I am so scared of what the 3rd movie is going to do to whatever ethnic group they choose next. It mishandled segregation(which I didn't touch on cause every other comment did), mishandled Indian Removal, and I can just tell that they are going to be so unsubtle and horrible with their "Aliens" and immigration and just... AAAAAAAAHHHHHH. I would like to perish.

I really hate that they didn't make Addison a werewolf. She could have figured out her identity with the support of the pack! It was unnecessary for her to not be a werewolf. Now, since Zombies just loves alliteration, it's almost definite she'll be an alien.

I saw a YouTube comment once that Addison’s real hair should be green instead of white. It kind of stuck with me, because as green hair is associated with being a zombie, it would give an actual reason for her feeling like she needed to hide it. It would also make a genuine connecting factor between her and Zed.

Zombies was actually supposed to be a tv show but the pilot didn’t get picked up. So all the weird missing parts make sense. They just needed more time.

Here's the main reason I hate this movie: during all the promotions disney channel kept saying there'd be a special look at Infinity War during a commercial break. So I sat there waiting and waiting, and eventually we got the "special look" but it was actually just a shortened version of the teaser trailer. There was literally nothing new. So I had to sit through this terrible movie for old content, I will forever hold a grudge against this movie. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

i still cant stop laughing at the thought of someone screaming "SHE HAS WHITE HAIR AND PRONOUNCE" while they boo'd Addison for taking the wig off

The Teen beach movies would be good DCOMs to watch.