Immigration For Dummies | Disney's Zombies 3 

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Imagine the writer's room pitching this movie. "Ok, so what other aspects of a racial storyline have we not done poorly?" "Immigration." "Ok, which generic movie monster do we make a horrible allegory out of?" "Immigration is about illegal aliens, right? So... Make them actual aliens from space and stuff." "Fantastic! Here's the key to my house, you can have sex with my wife!"

watch them run out of racial storylines and make a movie where vampires are an allegory for homophobia 💀

After 3 movies, Addison is still acting like she’s oppressed.

Don’t tell me: ZOMBIES 4 would’ve had Vampires (who, of course, all have names starting with V) and Addison immediately tries to throw herself into their culture while Bucky goes on about how much he hates vampires until the big dance number at the end. Bonus points if the story involves cheer and/or football somehow.

Just realized every zombie's name starts with z, every werewolf name starts with w, and every alien starts with a.

If I had a nickel for everytime RuPaul did voice work for a Disney project, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Went from daredevil to youth pastor with the glasses

As a full Latino, living in Latinoamerica, Adisson saying she’s special cos she’s 1/4th alien reminded me when Twitter obsessed with that Disney movie “Encanto” and suddenly everyone was showing off their 1/8th latino heritage without knowing anything about culture/language (they literally said there are no white Latinos bruh) LOL Anyways, great vid, as usual

can we talk about how Addison’s dad is flabbergasted to learn his wife has white hair?! HOW DID HE NOT KNOW?!?! also A-spen is the best part of this movie change my mind

The problem with these extremely watered down portrayals of complex social issues is that a lot of the time the simplification leads them to be unintentionally tone deaf. A lot of the time, the allegory for the dominant group have a very viable reason to not want the allegory for the oppressed group in their society. The message goes from “We shouldn’t hate people because they’re different” to “We know this group of people are dangerous but we still shouldn’t question their integration because reasons”.

Yall think Addison selects "Other" for race on applications 😂

The vampires would be an allegory for queer people, because they would be coming out of their coffins

My favorite part of "Ain't No Doubt About It" is how occasionally they have a line where they acknowledge the crushing realization that their high school relationship isn't likely to survive after they graduate.

Idk if Kei is gonna discuss this, but there's a scene in the credits where Bucky sneaks into the aliens' mothership (Voiced by RuPaul Charles of all people), saying that he's gonna "spread cheer to the farthest reaches of the galaxy", and then he just flies away inside of it... and I don't know if I'm overthinking this, but I don't think Bucky's gonna survive in the RuPaul mothership Edit: I've gotten a few comments jokingly saying that Bucky's gonna come back a drag queen. And even though the idea of Bucky in drag is funny, what I'm saying is that there's no way Bucky can survive space travel or be able to use alien technology

2 things about Addison in this movie: 1. In Alien Invasion while everyone else panics and looks terrified while she stares up in awe. Theen when Zed tries to snap her out of it they end up having a conversation about their relationship while the earth is shaking and the town is literally burning. She then says the line “We don’t even know what they came here to do” as a car explodes about 10 feet away from her. Like I get that her character is all accepting and whatnot but they are literally destroying your home. 2. It is really weird and suspicious how quickly she was convinced to leave her entire life behind for some aliens she’d met 2 days ago. After all that she would leave Zed, her parents and friends because she found out that she was only 25% alien. Idk I guess I didn’t expect this to be what she meant when she ravels on about in 3 songs about how she doesn’t fit in and needs to find her people.

You joked about trans mermaids, but there are types of fish that naturally undergo sex changes, so if any fantasy creature were to be trans, mermaids would make the most sense.

Why do I feel like, after every movie wraps in production, the cast and crew pat themselves of the backs while saying “We did it guys, racism is no more.”

Question: Addison couldn’t go with the aliens because she didn’t have enough stardust in her blood before her transformation, so she wouldn’t survive the journey. Bucky clearly doesn’t have any relation to the aliens, so he probably has even less than she did. Will he be okay?

Wait, so the immigrant stand-ins are secretly conspiring to steal precious resources from the place they're moving into? really? no one caught that before it left the cutting room floor 🤨

why does the zombies always gotta be “earning” basic rights😭like the fact that they have to earn their place in highschool and college feels icky

A-Spen isn't Disney's first enby character if you count Raine and Masha from The Owl House! Also why are all the non-humans literally just people with funny colored hair and Other Stuff ™

Honestly, my biggest gripe with the movie is that Addison is “the most precious thing in Seabrook”. Like, you’d think coming from her grandmother, that her MOM would be. I just find it strange that the grandmother would place these ever evolving coordinates in someone with a fraction of the blood deemed necessary for space travel. Sure, Addison awakened her powers soon after meeting the aliens (a bit randomly), but the grandmother wouldn’t know that. That, and why did they have to be placed in the “most precious thing”? As I was watching the movie, I thought for a little while that the coordinates would actually be in the cup, and that Addison WOULDN’T wind up being the center of everything for once. Fat chance of that happening Overall though, I unironically enjoyed the movie

having the aliens actually be lying about their intentions and trying to actually steal from the school is so messed up like... what does that imply about immigrants? when ur movie is a metaphor for racial issues u can't pick and choose what's a metaphor and what only applies to the characters everything u make the characters do is a reflection on the race they're a metaphor for

I swear Addison’s entire character would’ve made way more sense if she had been adopted. Then her feeling like an outsider would’ve been more understandable rather than “I have white hair and that makes me weird.”

so funny how every film in this franchise somehow gets worse and better than the last. truly one of the franchises of all time

I actually thought the aliens were supposed to represent neurodivergent people, but I guess that was just the vibe. They make a far better botched representation of immigrants Edit: upon further inspection if the aliens represented neurodivergence it would have far improved Addison’s presence, she never felt as though she had fit in and it would have been because neurodivergent people leave in a world not designed for them.

"rupaul as the voice of "THE MOTHERSHIP"" is not a phrase i expected to see in a disney channel original movie but i'm so so so glad it's there.

I think I can guess the next 2 Zombies movies, just from our current trajectory: Zombies 4: Wizards as an allegory for the Pinkertons Zombies 5: Liches as an allegory for bit-

The ZOMBIES trilogy is so crazy insane to me, the fact that they’d take such pressing, important global issues like racism and Indigenous struggles and make them into “haha look at the werewolf snark at the alien” is so wild, really proves that Disney cares about nothing more than making a buck. That being said, Pearce Joza (Wyatt Lykensen) is a treasure, a delight, and, as a lesbian, my male celebrity pass.

I’m honestly not surprised Ru Paul’s in this one. He’s been in a ton of kids media lately, he was in the proud family reboot if I remember correctly, and it was another cartoon he was in but I can’t remember..It might’ve been like amphibia? Maybe the owl house? I’m gonna beat myself up for not remembering this lmao

Now that she has a good haircut, Addison really has no leg to stand on. Like white blondes are a thing

My theory is that they got Ru Paul because he was already voicing a character for Amphibia at the time of this movies production

i love you for this review series because i physically cannot watch the zombies movies without wanting to throw my phone across the room

I love that Addison see’s the aliens basically destroyed the town and immediately try to make friends with them, it’s easy to notice but the more minorities Addison invited into her clique the dumber she becomes. But besides that I really don’t like the way that they frame Addison’s character, because her conflict is heavily repeated in the last two movies. If I was gonna describe the movie in a nutshell it would be "white woman finds out she’s a quarter black and gets box braids". That’s it, that’s the movie. Also the actor for Aspen plays a non binary character in Never Have I Ever and that show is much more enjoyable than all of these movies combined, the actor deserves way more love

as bad as this movie is, i still cried when it ended because it came out right as i was finishing high school (the first zombies movie came out when i was in the 8th grade) so it felt like my childhood ending in some sort of way. and yes the songs are great i love excepctional zed

Bucky doesn’t have alien blood or ”stardust” so that means that…. …bucky canonically dies.

ok so i actually never watched the third movie before but learning that the aliens took all the scholarships and jobs from the earthlings was a slap in the face. a slap that i shouldve seen coming knowing this franchise

we all know it’d be another horribly tone deaf narrative but now i REALLY want there to be a zombies 4 with xi/xir vampires

So they state humans can't survive space travel, and the movie ends with Bucky the human going into space. Bucky is dead now, you're welcome

Okay, peoples have already said ZOMBIES 4: Vampires/homophobia, I raise you ZOMBIES 4: Mermaids/disabilities…except not nice Disney mermaids, specifically sirens, the ones that sing to lure people to their deaths and eat them after. Because we can’t represent a marginalized group without making them explicitly dangerous/deadly to humans in this universe 🙃

as an asian they/them named aspen, i feel like i need to watch this movie now

Bro got the Matt Murdock fittt 💀🔥🔥🔥🔥

Addison really took a 23 and Me and found she's 2.3% alien

Funny thing is there was a spin off show for between Zombies 2 and 3 where there were vampires and Addison thought she was one for a bit 💀

Might I suggest a review of Tall Girl? It's another movie about a pretty white girl who thinks she's oppressed because of one physical feature, and I think it'd be hilarious watching you go to town on it.

Addison this movie: I KNEW I WAS A MINORITY!

they had another name for that ship but rupaul threw a tantrum last minute and they changed it to The Mothership

I cant wait for Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4 where they introduce Gay Vampires

i like how there's such an obvious plot hole. Like, the aliens supposedly 'just discover' the existence of the world and Seabrook, but what about Addison and her mom? They had to had been there like 50ish years ago at least and nobody has talked about a possible alien sighting that happened before. And it wasn't just like a dandy visit; an alien had to fuck some human and HAD A BABY which means that they probably stayed longer than a day. Also, why would only 1 alien, the leader, be the only one who had a baby there??? Where are the other half-quarter aliens?? They also never talk about Addison's mom. Does she have alien powers? Why isn't she reuiniting as well? The aliens just seem like a shitty excuse to have Addison be in the minority and for the show to battle racism again.

I'm calling it now, Zombies 4 will use Vampires for Neurodivergent and/or queer people, and Zombies 5 will use Mermaids for Disabled people, and Addison's gonna find someway to make herself the center of it

I think A-spen is the first non-binary *live-action* Disney character, but I think Raine in The Owl House was introduced before this movie came out, so they're not the first in general Disney. Unless I'm wrong, idk. But even then, it technically does mean that A-spen is the first canonically non-binary *and* bisexual Disney character. Shoving random characters into relationships for no reason is *such* a kids movie thing lol, but I hope that this means that they'll actually get some proper interactions together in the upcoming animated series. Also, fun fact, I think a lot of people shipped Eliza and Willa before this movie, so I bet those people were upset.

My ears perked up at the Puerto Rican comment, just because Puerto Ricans have citizenship doesn't mean they aren't discriminated against, held at lower positions so others can jump ahead, a piece of paper doesn't keep you safe from ignorance and hate Can't stand when people allude to the idea that Puerto Ricans don't know the struggle of being an immigrant or marginalized for the color of their skin, the way they speak and act Sorry but that really gets me heated

So wait, this whole series is just Addison trying to insert herself into a minority and she fails in the first two and succeeds in the third, that being the end of the series.

I love how “Come on Out” is literally a diss track

was literally drinking my dr pepper strawberries n cream as he said to sit down and have one

I would’ve been more angry if they said ‘enemy aliens’ as a Japanese-American

The "spectrum squad" and wyatt were probably the only good things to come from the Zombies trilogy

'Cheerleading is genetic I guess' My buffy the vampire slayer obsession disagrees

Next will be vampires. A vampire destroys an important landmark, and then all the other vampires who have arrived get called terrorists. The main girl whatshername finds out she's still special and that she was bit as a baby and can now turn into a white alien bat because of course she can

I love how so much of the random pieces of this combine other Disney movies and Disney look a like films. Mostly the werewolf necklaces being crystals that power them and their society gives me strong Atlantis vibes. I couldn’t stop thinking like “If I had a nickel every time a Disney movie gave the indigenous people some magical crystal necklaces that are both a power source and their life source I’d have two nickels. It’s not a lot but it’s strange that it happened twice.” Also platinum blonde vanilla pudding main lead girl being the map to the greatest thing in the cosmos gives me Titan A.E vibes.

The descent into madness over this movie is a 10/10.

I just want you to know… I made my mom watch this whole trilogy 😭

“Also this guy looks like Ninja” caught me so off guard my god that is uncanny

Another thing about this franchise in particular I never understood. Why is each minority monster race extremely racist to the next group of monsters in each sequel. Like *all* of them, in this franchise they were going through the exact same thing in the most literal sense like weeks or months ago but you’re telling me every single zombie will use that same racism towards the werewolves and then both of those groups towards the aliens? Not one of them was like “hey, they’re kinda like us maybe they’re not inherently bad”

I can't lie I love A-spen

You’re the first person I’ve watched to comment on how ridiculous A-spen x Willa is. Everyone talks about how cute it is and stuff (which is totally fine; people can like the ship if they want) and I felt like I was the only one who thought it was incredibly forced and unnecessary 😅. But anyway, great review, like always!

If there is a 4th movie they should make it about plant creatures that produce a chemical that allows them and other to transform into other creatures. Have a plant creature become a zombie, and have a zombie yell at them “You’re not a zombie. Zombie are zombies. You were born a plant creature. Plant creatures are not zombies.” Maybe throw in a plot line with Zed taking the chemical to become human (in order to play football or wherever). He of course faces backlash from humans for transitioning from zombie to human. Zed regrets becoming human and turn back into a zombie. Maybe have Allison’s favorite author come out as anti plant creature or something.

I wasn't sure, so i looked it up, and yeah, A-Spen may well be Disney's first enby character, as Zombies 3 predates Eda's Requiem, introduction of Raine Whispers, by 11 days. There may be others i am unaware of, though Edit: It has been brought to my attention that I forgot to check the years that the movie and episode premiered in, with Zombies 3 releasing in 2022, and Eda's Requiem releasing in 2021. Apologies for any confusion I may have caused

I thank you so much for suffering through these three movies for our pleasure, it really was fascinating seeing just how batshit insane this franchise was all the way until the end. You are a very brave soul indeed.

Goddamn you rip the characters APART in the most eloquent, hilarious way; which I am 100% sure I enjoy more than I would these terrible, terrible, movies. Thank you for the work you do. 🙏

Imagine they make a allegory for wars or genocide the day that happens would be the worst day ever Also They are native Americans and that is not cool Also I like how they definitely killed someone and that is looked over

what i've learned is that we need to free Milo Manheim from these movies

I watched your two video on Zombies 1 & 2 and then decided to see the third one for myself. It is definitely the best one with most characters coming into their own, and the actors being more mature and less stiff. The humor was still aggressively childlike but still an upgrade to 1 & 2. And I really liked how much chaos it brings to introduce 4 different species over 3 movies. But also, I was in a DCOM mood after watching these so I decided to watch High School Musical 3 afterwards and so my lasting impression of this movie is just that HSM 3 is much better.

I want them to make a 4th movie where zed and addison are struggling with infertility and becojme racist about adoption.

I swear she’s probably gonna think she’s part of this other species in the spin off show even though she finds out she’s an alien #shutupAddison

The plot in this one makes the least sense, but the overall vibes are my fave haha

Clicked on this IMMEDIATELY after seeing it was uploaded 48 seconds ago I love new Kei uploads

Omg you NEED to talk about how BAD the racial allegories are in beastars like honesty I find it real funny how almost every person who says that beastars is a good metaphor for racism and segregation is a white dude💀💀

First the soundtrack is the best in this one. Exceptional zed (for this series) is amazing. I love how everyone is moral support for zed. A commenter mentioned how the werewolves called him a leader and “the best footballer she’s ever see and (what’s her name) calls him a “charismatic green machine” and I can’t stop thinking about their arguments. They are using descriptions they want to associate themselves with, but Zed proved in each film that he is a good football player, a leader, and has charisma that allows people to listen to him. I also love how the cheerleaders, Addison’s parents, and the principal support him since they were fighting against him since day 1. I also like that after helping the Aliens, they help him with his scholarship. It really shows the unity he helped create. And I never get tired of “now I live in his basement.” One of the best jokes ever.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks 'Ain't no doubt about it' is a complete and utter banger

Bucky being part alien may actually explain his behavior a little :] Him being a sociopath due to the aliens' unfamiliarity with emotions. Idk, he's just, uhm, bucky.

Racism, football, and cheerleading… I think you’ve described the three pastimes of Texas.

I think it's kinda fucked her mom knew why her hair was white and she herself had white hair but kept it a secret, making her think she was a freak when her mom could have told her, at least, that she had it too...like that mom sucks

Tbh this movie was a guilty(?) pleasure. I really enjoyed the characters, especially the aliens and werewolves. It was pretty funny in many occasions. I'm glad I got to discover the Zombie Trilogy thanks to ya 🙏🏼

thank you for the autism friendly music to keep me entertained through the video. (splatoon music. thank you for the squid tunes.)

We eatin good tonight boys

Zed's dad looks like that image of Ted Cruz as the Joker

Everytime a new group of people are introduced Addison wants to be different and just like them so bad and it makes me hate her

I'm Salvadorian, the amount of times I've heard "Go back to Mexico" is insane. I HAVEN'T BEEN ON MEXICO ONCE IN MY LAFE!!!

adison is really out here just being the white savior who is like 20% minority

No clue why it took three of these for me to figure this out, but they guy who plays Zed’s dad was in, among many other things, some of the Saw movies AND my favorite episode of the Chucky television series?? How the hell did he wind up in the Zombies movies???

If they actually make a mermaids film and vampires film I will actually cry.

i adore ze/zeh vampires and she/he mermaids

I don’t think I need to drink, this movie has killed enough of my braincells already

Bucky should be canonically dead because of him trying to use space travel without being part alien himself

Disney's first nonbinary character was actually Raine Whispers from The Owl House, they debuted in the episode Eda's Requiem on July 24th, 2021

Actually the aliens go back to Seabrooke months later since they left when it’s football season which is in autumn, and then came back during graduation in spring

I read once that the aliens in ZOMBIES 3 are meant to represent the Pleiadians, an actual alien race that communicate with some humans to help us with their knowledge about life and the Universe (they were shown in a Simpsons episode once), the Pleiadians are known for wearing a dark shade of blue (indigo) and have a sweet and nice personality just like the aliens in Zombies 3

Bold of you to assume zombies is over... The animated spin off is going to release this year and I want you to make a video on it.