zombies musical Christmas what is not to like
about this week's selection Anna and the Apocalypse
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right at the top here. I want to take just a moment to say that of course all around the country and all
around the world. Everyone is suffering kind of through the pandemic that the coronavirus has
become. It's going to be a short episode for this Sunday. I really just wanted to make sure I got something out so
I didn't miss another Sunday, but I also didn't want to take up a lot of time to record and I didn't want to take a lot of your time
because
I know you have better things to do than watch or listen to my review, but I did want to offer you just a few minutes
of escapism from the reality of the world around us and how crazy things are. I had
this kind of in my back pocket. It was a movie that I saw on a flight back at Christmas time and a Christmas
selection. Probably why it was in the queue at that point and I just never got around to doing a review of it because
the zombie musical so what are you going to do? Right but I just felt like this is a movie that is kind of
apropos for the time. Everybody's kind of worried about
Irises and you know, maybe just a little bit of escapism of the funniness of a zombie
movie at Christmas tied into a musical. Well, I hope that no one finds
it offensive and offenses not intended. I just thought that it would be kind of apropos and that it
would be a little bit of time for people to forget about everything bad that they're hearing in the news and hear
about a really funny movie and maybe find something that we could all watch while we're locked in
because it is available on streaming right now. So again, yeah this week's movie Anna and the apocalypse checked it.
Flight wouldn't have watched it. Otherwise probably even though it is a musical which I do love and it is a
zombie movie which I do love but it's a Christmas movie and you guys remember I have like
a bit of a feeling about Christmas movies in general just the same. Let's just
take a few minutes and discuss Anna and the apocalypse and of course, we're going to start with the pleasantries. So let's go ahead and get those out
of the way Anna and the apocalypse was directed by John mcphail. It was written by Alan McDonald
plot of Anna and the apocalypse is Anna is just your average British teenager.
ER she is headed off to school one day when the world around her kind of starts to shut down, but Anna
doesn't really notice Anna has her pods in and she is Jammin to a song and singing along
while in the background zombies are eating her neighbors and chasing people down the street at one point.
She has one right behind her. It gets hit by a car that was driven by another person who had turned
and you know, so she doesn't even notice that she just makes her way slowly but surely skipping and singing on the way to school
as you probably just take a moment to say no, I'm not going to do any spoilers for this. It's a movie from
2017 we're pushing like three plus years of that movie out. So if
you're worried about catching spoilers in this movie sounds interesting to you go watch it. It's available on streaming and then come back
and check out the review just a little bit of spoiling my own review. I think it's totally a fun time
and you will enjoy it and hey if you're locked in for a while, it's just something that you know that I would
recommend for you to check out so you're not gonna get harmed by it. So after reaching school and a meets up with her friends,
of course, her friends are not the cool kids. They're not the burnouts.
Or just your average b-list high schoolers, but they all stick together and it's
coming up on Christmas time. So everyone's in a bit of a foul mood. They're just not kids who celebrate Christmas
that much and so they're looking for a little bit of escapism and you know, it leads to a musical
number in the cafeteria, which is pretty fun. But look at that. I almost got ahead of myself. Let's talk about
the cast. Shall we in a Shepherd? The titular character is played by Ella hunt John a guy in her
crew is played by Malcolm coming saris wire comes in as Steph North
Laveau as Chris Wise Marley's IU as Lisa been Wiggins who is actually a really
great British actor and a super nice guy as far as I know but as a real asshole in this stew
Paul K as Arthur Savage and just a pretty well-rounded Supporting Cast of Great British
actors. None of which I had heard about before this, but all of which I thought did a fantastic job in this particular
film. So there it's cool. They realize that the zombie apocalypse is upon them. They
live in a world where there are Zombie Apocalypse movies and therefore they know how to
I survived so they start making their way to their loved ones and slashing
and bashing and crushing their way through zombie hordes in order to do it.
There's the cover of the movie has Anna holding a sharpened candy cane like a large
sharpen candy cane above her head and I was waiting for that moment to happen. And of course, it didn't disappoint.
She does at one point find a big candy cane like a fake candy cane and break it
off and it has a point and then starts working on some zombies with it.
Just all in all it's one of those slasher Basher good time movies something
that you can kind of get lost in when you really need a little bit of escapism and along the way they run into some
of their classmates their classmates who were kind of mean and Bullies to them during school
and have not changed when it comes to the zombie apocalypse. This is one of the things that I think is missed a lot
by a lot of zombie movies that people won't change just because the world around them changes if
someone is a bit of an asshole in real life, they are going to be an asshole.
All in the Apocalypse Now, they just have more freedom to do things the way that they want to do it and
that is not necessarily a good thing Anna and her b-list high school friends decide. They are no longer
going to be kicked around by these bullies and they make moves to try and make things a little
different now their first interaction, they fall victim to them, but when they see them later, they are the ones
who are take care of business and along the way they have the chance to kind of help people out
who earlier in the movie didn't help them out. And I think that that is a kind of a good lesson.
As well that even though these people turn on them and basically try to harm them or you
know, allow harm to come to them so that they others can escape. They don't do the same
when opportunity reverses itself. They do the right thing and help out these
people and basically Anna and John have this conversation about how they
kind of have to be better. They have to show that Civilization can continue and they are
really shining examples of that. There's a really fantastic scene in a bowling alley which
It is probably the last place you'd want to be in a zombie apocalypse based on this but it's a place
where they all felt safe because they all worked at the bowling alley. That's kind of how they knew each other except for also
from school and then going to check on one of the members grandmother's but eventually the crew makes
its way to their loved ones some find that the loved ones are gone or have turned already two
of their little crew get bitten and they allow themselves to be a distraction
in order to let everyone else escape and you know, it's just it's like one of those sweet
And say you kind of see coming just a few moments before it happens and you're like all don't do that. They
did it and it's great but it's kind of like terrible at the same time. But then
when they finally make their way back to the school a place of safety or so. They think they realized
that the Army is not coming because the Army itself has become zombified. So the school
is the last refuge for them and come to find out the Schoolmaster
principal like I mean guy who runs
Runs the school is basically using some of the kids as bait for a
zombie. So try and keep himself safe. And there's this final showdown between all of them and of course
and and her compatriot when and the mean teacher gets bitten and dragged off into the crowd
and we're kind of left there with this sense that like they've done everything that they can do and what's left
of the world now and then they get out of the school with no particular place to go and
I can imagine that must be a really frightening experience just that like we've
Shaved, yes, but at least you know in most zombie movies in most movies like this. There
is a goal or a destination and these kids have gone to the destination. They've been
kind of ravaged along the way and now they've made it all the way back to what they thought was refuge and turns out it
wasn't and now you are free and you are relatively safe while you're still alive
anyway, but you just don't know where to go. Well at that moment friend of their shows up
and I say a friend but somebody who they had kind of like a bad blood.
With at the very beginning of the movie and I think it just sounds a little message. I like, you know other people will change
to there will be people who become themselves and just take advantage but there will be other people who
really embrace the good and those people will show up to help as well. And she does they all
jump in the car together and they ride off into the sunset to get safety outside of the
town of Little Haven which is where most of this takes place. So again, I don't want to be super long way to this
week. I don't think anybody has the patience for it, but I would recommend the 93
Minute runtime of Anna and the apocalypse. It's just a good bit of escapism. If
you like musicals this movie is going to be for you like all along this path that I've been describing. They have
been singing songs which seemed a little out of place because they're about zombies and about the world around them
but are super fun. And you know, even though it has all of the tenants of a zombie movie it
does it to maybe more PC or more modern extreme. I think BC probably has a negative connotation. I don't
mean that it just with a more modern take like if Millennials did a
B-movie this is what they would do like. Yeah, not everybody becomes a good guy and some people will still
be bullies even in the zombie apocalypse. And this is how we deal with them. But some people will change too
and we need to rely on each other when it when that time comes so I think it's got a good message, you know, just for the
world right now things are a bit crazy. Not that the zombie apocalypse is upon us, of course, but you
know, I see videos of people fighting in stores over toilet paper and water and everything and you think
maybe everything's kind of done for I think this is a good reminder that there are good people still out there.
And that you know, we all just need to come together. And if we do that that everything's going to be okay.
So if you don't like zombie movies, if you don't like blood and gore in your movies in the way that a zombie movie has
that you won't like this but if you like zombie movies and yeah, you are okay with musicals, you can stand
musicals and especially if you like musicals and and the apocalypse is going to be for you forget that
it's a Christmas time. It doesn't only play that much of an important role in it except for some of the weapons and some
of the scenes are set in and Christmas set settings so musicals and zombies.
If you have that sounds interesting to you like it did to me. I think you're going to enjoy it and with a 93 minute run time.
It's not going to take up much of your time. It will just let you escape for a little while take a breath take a refresher recharge a
bit and then you can get back into the real world and all the stuff we have going on around us find Anna and
the apocalypse on streaming I highly recommended for a little bit of medicine for the world today.
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