Race Relations for Dummies | Disney's "Z-O-M-B-I-E-S"

[@neivilde.1242]

zombies 1: racism zombies 2: colonialism zombies 3: immigration all of them very poorly done lmao

[@hikeilokei]

The holy trinity

[@majorblitz3846]

@@hikeilokei Unholy trinity if you will

[@LucifurYapps]

Zombies 3 is actually a prequel to Duke nukem 3d

[@Cupcakecat58]

all of them are racism technically. Z1: segregation Z2: colonialism Z3: immigration

[@deen7530]

I like playing a game where I think about what future ZOMBIES sequels could have metaphors for ZOMBIES 4: Disabled mermaids ZOMBIES 5: LGBTQ fairies ZOMBIES 6: Mentally ill demons

[@taypiper4534]

The white hair problem that the main character had is sending me cause I have albinism so I NATURALLY HAVE WHITE HAIR 💀 like my hair pretty much looks like that along with white eyebrows and eyelashes so this “big reveal” is so insane to me LMAOOO

[@hikeilokei]

Seriously everything is a spectacle to them lmao.

[@taypiper4534]

@@hikeilokei and like blonde to white hair isn’t even that crazy if she had like naturally green hair or something?? at least with having albinism I can use my hair for cosplaying characters lol

[@sketchyjulia]

@@taypiper4534 when I saw posters for the sequels I had forgotten about the whole white hair thing and genuinely thought she just had platinum blonde hair

[@SoulSlugArts]

​@@taypiper4534 never thought about that That's so true fr

[@GhostBunny2101]

Now that you mentioned, would make more sense if Adson just had albinism and everyone bullied her for that, so she would understand more or less how the zombies feel because she was also terrorized for being different

[@bonsaigecko9153]

I hate when movies try to do some big racism analogy only to have the “origins” be that the oppressors were originally victimized and the oppressed have roots in being violent aggressors. A stark contrast to how irl there is no real reason for racism other than “they are different and we hurt them in the past so why can’t we keep hurting them”

[@crys_cornflakez]

Definitely having the zombies also be literal brain eating aggressors complicated things quite a bit

[@ArmoMei]

Yeah totally, I kind of feel like that’s what zootopia did a litttle

[@franarchy198]

@@crys_cornflakez Especially since we see how easily the thing that keeps them from being said brain eating agressors can break 😐

[@davifernandopereiraborges5168]

Theres a motive for racism,withe people wanted to justify slavery so they de humanized their black slaves

[@davifernandopereiraborges5168]

This is more comparable to germans than black people

[@rockcandyplanet]

Another thing that drove me crazy was the fact that the only major zombie character that’s played by a black actor is the extremist rights activist 😭 come on now

[@hikeilokei]

RIGHT!? And she didn’t even do anything in the end anyway so???

[@capn_l]

SHES WHAT?

[@parkchimmin7913]

AYO?

[@bbi2.052]

Who?

[@hikeilokei]

@@bbi2.052 Eliza Zambi (seriously, that last name annoys me)

[@Riaah_love]

I find it so weird that people try to deny the fact that the Zombies are heavily black coded when nearly everything they experience and the way their culture does things is ver implement of black culture and history, their songs are rap songs which is a black dominated / invented genre, they were literally segregated from the "normal" or white students, in the 3rd movie it’s said that Zed isn’t legally allowed to go to college for being a zombie which once again leans into segregation. And "zombie language" can easily be interpreted as a way to represent tut or tutnese, a language slaves made to communicate with each other because they couldn’t speak English. How people see all of this and try to say they aren’t meant to represent the struggles of African Americans in history is beyond me

[@hikeilokei]

Seriously it doesn’t even TRY to hide it. I got one person in my comments who denied it but someone very quickly shut that down 😭. Thank you for the comment! It was well written and fun to read!

[@baydiac]

@@hikeilokei When the two groups come together at the end of the movie, the fact that the “zombie culture” that was shared was fashion, music, and dancing… Disney couldn’t have _tried_ to make the comparison more obvious. Zombies are better at sports too of course, they’re just naturally stronger and faster-

[@azazelgrigori9244]

Not to mention, the werewolves are based on Native Americans and the aliens are meant to be autistic and LGBT.

[@Riaah_love]

@@azazelgrigori9244 There’s actually an animated special about the wolves where a vampire girl comes into town and one of the wolf girls thinks she’s trying to take over the land and Addison literally tells her to "take a chill pill" and "be less judgmental". Imagine telling an actual NA woman who sees parts of the land being taken away again to take a chill pill, that’s horribly insensitive 😭

[@azazelgrigori9244]

@@Riaah_love (Laughs hysterically) I think the woke left is just a bunch of groups trying to invade each other's territory, arguing over who's the most minority of minorities.

[@sometransfish214]

i watched all three with my friends over a weekend back in November of last year and the progression of Addison culturally appropriating in each movie in an effort to "find out who she is" had us howling because of how ridiculous it was.

[@hikeilokei]

I’m thinking about doing the test of the series cause I was NOT expecting her to be part alien 😭

[@sometransfish214]

@HiKeiLoKei i wasnt expecting it either and honestly it made me mad bc im 1/4 mixed and i swear we are not like that most of the time 😭

[@UchihaKat]

@@hikeilokei I jokingly called that she should be half alien ages ago (all the Zombies have Z's in their names, the werewolves have W's, and the two other major humans have B names, so obviously her A name meant she was an alien!) XD But yeah, the 'change' and 'find where i belong' songs had me and my friend howling. The fuckign clip show trying to make he seem oppressed.... The songs out of context are pretty solid tho.

[@cifge_404]

I was not expecting it either. In fact, it made me quite angry because I felt like it undid everything the second movie did when Addison ended up not being a werewolf after all-- her white hair doesn't really mean anything, it's just white hair, and she needs to stop trying so hard to find some non-human group to be part of. Then, just when I thought Addison was starting to come into herself and be an individual, Zombies 3 comes along to ruin it all. So frustrating. (I enjoyed these movies for their junk-food like cringey value, I'm not like deep into the fandom or anything, and I definitely don't think they have anything important or meaningful to say lol.)

[@imjustasconfusedasyou]

i could write an entire essay on how weird and stupid and BAD these movies are. i love them so much becuase they’re jsut so bad and annoying and i hate them

[@Mikhattan]

Zed is just how Z is pronounced in most english speaking places outside of america. His name is just “Z”

[@kerisuri]

short for Zedward

[@gremlinwc8996]

@@kerisuri ik you're just joking and I don't need to take it seriously but I actually knew a guy we called zed, it was short for zedicus and we also called him zeddy. Not that its a common name of course just saying that it surprisingly is a name

[@-SteampunkTraveler-]

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[@themyofmy]

​@@gremlinwc8996zamn

[@outdatedmeme4963]

@@gremlinwc8996 Zedicus??? That's such a wild name, I'm living for it

[@fmadiva]

The writers are really giving “colorblind white people trying to write a racism allegory and tragically failing” vibe.

[@danieladamczyk4024]

Wait theres more?

[@Andreaa_-_]

If a single person of color was involved in the writing of this movie I will eat my hat

[@catloverandminionbeliever]

“punches him because he’s black” is a crazy sentence 😭

[@hikeilokei]

IM NOT WRONG

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

I don’t know why it reminds me of that one anime clip where the girl is talking to the ghost rabbit and said “I now know that we could never work out! Not because you’re a rabbit, but because you’re black.”

[@helloamanda04]

​@@one-onessadhalf3393 I THOUGHT THE SAME THING AT THAT PART LMAO

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

@Amanda F. Good to know lol

[@modernmajorgeneral4669]

The wisdom imparted by you, such as "Racism only changes when you deep-fry the racists," and, "Racism is the only ride that doesn't have an age or height requirement," is truly awe-inspiring.

[@hikeilokei]

I plan to be a monk some day

[@amog8202]

​@@hikeilokei can't wait to see you become the archbishop of racism, best of luck :D

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

Additionally, this is the first time I learned of “African American speed” that one can use to escape and scenario. I learned so many things today!

[@lalos_eardrum]

"The exaggerated swag of a zombie teen" HELPPP

[@hikeilokei]

I'm so happy you liked this joke. It was the one joke I knew I wanted to make when I started writing the video!

[@lalos_eardrum]

@@hikeilokei YES I WAS SO GLAD TO CATCH IT ALSO I JUST FOUND FOUND THIS ACCOUNT OFF TIKTOK AND I LOVE IT SM!! EVERYTHING'S PUT TOGETHER SO NICELY!!

[@hikeilokei]

@@lalos_eardrum Thank you :) hope you stick around for future stuff :)

[@lalos_eardrum]

@@hikeilokei I will for sure!! 😄 Thanks for replying!!

[@crys_cornflakez]

I SHDJDHDHD I WAsnt even thinking about it

[@MostlyAnimatedSketches]

Just wait until Zombies 2, which tries to pull a Twilight and have the werewolves be a metaphor for Native American people. Zombies 3 is probably the most annoying one of the series, since the plot only exists because of a misunderstanding that could have easily just not existed, but I also think that the metaphor is not as obvious in that one. It might be a metaphor for general xenophobia, but it felt like the movie mainly focused on Addison finally finding out what she is. And thank goodness for that, because for the past two movies, she just inserted herself into these bigger problems that had NOTHING to do with her.

[@hikeilokei]

That was my biggest problem with her character. She really didn't need to be there, it wasn't about her at all.

[@LucifurYapps]

Well actually the aliens from zombies 3 are actually the ones from Duke nukem 3d in disguise

[@z0mbiepois0n]

ooo as a native person i HAVE to watch that now

[@Vivigreeny25]

ZOMBIE 2 DID *WHAT*

[@lonesavior]

I liked the 3rd one the most. I'm not sure if it's because it was the first one I watched and I wasn't sick of it yet, but I found it enjoyably ridiculous. I also thought Zed's subplot of having crippling self doubt after a lifetime of facing discrimination at every turn was the best the series did at tackling the consequences of racism other than "2 attractive people can't date".

[@arielhyla]

more than the extreme heavy-handedness and white-saviorness of the movie, I think the worst part that the very obvious allegories for black people were all oppressed and segregated because of their literal inhumanity and innate violent instincts that must be suppressed with modern medicine/tech. like, thats so obviously racist im genuinely surprised it was green-lit. also this is a great video! I'm excited to see your channel continue to grow.

[@heatherwetherell6665]

literally what I was thinking the whole time. what were the filmmakers thinking when they compared the systemic oppression of humans who just so happen to have a different skin color to that of a cannibalistic rabid race of people. like that’s not only bizarrely and transparently racist but also just a bad allegory for oppression. honestly, if this movie’s zombies were real, i’d be a bit weary too of an animalisticly immoral and mutated species that was only restrained by a fucking Fitbit. how is that supposed to inspire members of a dominant cultural group to support ordinary humans who may be facing a similar oppressive reality. who approved of this?

[@alliew31]

In the sequels they have a bit of “the z bands are tools of oppression” but there’s still the inhumane strength and aggression that needs to be managed even though they can now turn it off and on themselves

[@jupiterlantern2601]

Doesn't help the fact that the humans in the film are 100% completely justified in being fearful of beings that wants to consume them...

[@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62]

@@heatherwetherell6665 Exactly, who the heck is going to be friends with a (species?? race??) of people who literally want to eat your own

[@oncreativemode5486]

imo the fact that zombies only turn normal by wearing z-bands, a device created by the humans, kinda implies that "the normal people need to control the minorities a _tiny_ bit so they don't go animalistic" which is pretty racist worldbuilding yeah sure the z-band was made with oppression still in mind but they're not shackles, they're zombie instinct repellent. the zombies need to put it on for them to not murder humans for brains

[@sandycheeks5eva]

It's High School Musical rules, man! They can't kiss until the end of the second one. Also, I wasn't expecting this movie to be a worse racism allegory than Zootopia. That's actually impressive.

[@hikeilokei]

Oh you're so right my bad lmao

[@Dave102693]

Beaststar is much better than those 2

[@Arlothed1no]

If they reworked the premise, the concept of the zombies could be a GREAT metaphor for disabled people. They: -have literal medical devices that allows them to access the world -Addison's hair could be a reference to invisible disabilities or masking -The zombie laws could reference the ugly laws -The wall and separate classrooms could reference institutionalization -Fire and injury literally triggers a medical episode Like??? They missed a huge opportunity for a commentary on disability and instead they made a really weird commentary about segregation. Edit: THE EXPLOSION IS LITERALLY A MASS DISABLING EVENT WHY DID THEY GO THE DIRECTION OF RACISM. PEOPLE DON'T BECOME ANOTHER RACE BECAUSE OF AN EXPLOSION.

[@benduford3746]

This would be so cool concept but why do something interesting? When you can push the same hit button issue talked to death.

[@UchihaKat]

"He's seriously overestimating the amount of pull he has in this negotiation" idk you wouldn't believe the things some folks in the south would do to win at high school football. Like that part was way more believable to me than the fact that Computer Nerd Eliza later took HOURS to realize her computer was missing.

[@hikeilokei]

I THOUGHT OF THAT TOO! I ended up cutting it out of the original script cause this video was almost 40 minutes long. Also, since you seem interested in my content, you should take the poll for the next video on the channel! (In the community tab)

[@UchihaKat]

@@hikeilokei Will check it out! Gotta go watch your Spy Kids 2 vid first tho. Edit: NO! You're gonna make me choose between Descendants and Zombies 2? Two of my fave guilty pleasures??? I hope you get to both eventually.

[@hikeilokei]

The plan is to do both! Don't worry, the polls usually just decide which I'll do first.

[@hikeilokei]

Also thank you for watching the Spy Kids video. Personally its my favorite but its not doing too hot right now for some reason. But I'm sure the algorithm will pick it up at some point.

[@potatocornsplease2383]

I'm surprised their wasn't a big right-wing outrage when the non-binary alien was introduced in the 3rd and had a crush on the main zombie boy

[@hikeilokei]

Yeah that sounds insignificant enough to get under their skin

[@kailynthompson8693]

don't forget they fell for the werewolf girl at the end

[@justateapot3847]

Bro nobody watched the 3rd movie, that’s why -_-

[@zacharyriley4561]

They were probably focused on something else.

[@thedeliveryboy1123]

I don't think anyone wanted to admit to having watched the movie

[@gaspardp7314]

I will never forget the person who said that Alyson was a white girl that just NEEDED to be in whatever minority was put on the spotlight by the movie. Only in the first one she doesn't really end up trying to be a zombie and that's because she has white hair which makes her her own oppressed minority

[@peterdanior4538]

Yes if they made a fourth movie about Vampires, Addison would absolutely go goth & complain how she doesn’t fit in with the humans, zombies, werewolves, or aliens & it’s the Vampires where she actually belongs

[@hikeilokei]

I would pay money to see this tbh

[@deen7530]

I just want the series to keep going and just escalating until Addison joins a group of actually evil creatures trying to destroy the world, and when everyone's like "Addison, why are you doing this?" she's like "THIS IS WHO I AM!!"

[@peterdanior4538]

@@deen7530 I wonder if her black friend would finally stand up to her & tell her cut the crap, or if she will still simp & tell Addison she looks beautiful all in black & dripping blood

[@TupocalypseShakur]

​@@deen7530this is literally the events Shadow the hedgehog

[@thisperson8441]

It's not that he's gay for being a cheerleader, just...look at him

[@misspoopie_]

he has that fruity ahh posture twink arched back body 😂 no hate to trevor thoo

[@noiiya9242]

I was in middle school when this movie first came out, and one of the girls in my class said that we should treat everyone well is what she learned from the movie and will always do her best to listen to it, and the same girl at lunch asked me if i my lunch was a dog and if I saw any KPOP idols in my country (I’m Chinese). I think that the film makers of the movie woulda loved her

[@Y2KFroggyAngel]

💀

[@redtailarts101]

Ain't no way you excused bad songs with being from Disney like Disney didn't write "Be Prepared," "Hellfire," "Part of Your World," or "Mother Knows Best." Disney writes BANGERS.

[@arielhyla]

I assumed he really meant disney *channel* which admittedly has bangers in its own right but the standards are much lower

[@hikeilokei]

Although I agree I meant Disney Channel movies. Disney Studio movies are a much different (and more expensive) bag of worms.

[@redtailarts101]

@@hikeilokei Fair. They won't pay the good lyricists for the songwriting even tho they're a multi billion dollar corporation

[@Leafyphox]

If you think about it, half of these metaphors for race seem more like bad allegories for the treatment of mentally ill people.

[@hikeilokei]

Yeah I heard the second movie (or 3rd?) is apparently worse about it..

[@Anonymous_Gambito]

I was thinking the same thing. Either that or, like, illness in general

[@idontexist9238]

On the note of them not kissing, no one EVER kisses in the first movie of a DCOM series. Like they kiss in Zombies2, in HSM Troy and Gabriella don't kiss til the second one, and it's basically the same for ALL other DCOMs

[@hikeilokei]

I just watched Lemonade mouth (next weeks video if ur interested). And there are 3 romances in that movie. One between a literal married couple, one between a couple who is together for about half of the film, and one that kinda goes no where tbh, but NONE of them even hug 😭

[@Misora7303]

​@@hikeilokei I guess is theway Disney Channel does sequel bates Disney: are you a hormonal tween that wants to see romance happen in a safe and inocent way with characters you relate and are near your age? Then consume the shit out of our movies to maybe see It happen in the sequel!

[@ellelard3992]

cloud 9 is the only exception

[@kingkooki7761]

i know people in my high school at the time that unironically liked the movie. i too love zombies because it's awful and fun to make fun of with my best friend. but we literally just went on a tyraid about how they tried to compare a pretty white girl with powerful parents with white hair to a group of people who are forced into generational poverty, segregation, and blatant abhorent racism. like we understand the commentary on strict social conventions as two lgbt people, but that is absolutely not the same thing as systemic racism... but bucky is iconic and i love him

[@zuri6744]

I completely agree. Maya and three does a way better job of handling chimi albinoism. Poor chimi was ostracised from her community on account of her appearance and came to be known as El Monstruo Blanco or the White Monster.

[@ilovemydog240]

Bucky carried the movies

[@MostlyAnimatedSketches]

Yeah, in case you didn't know, there is an unwritten rule that the two leads cannot kiss in a DCOM until the sequel(s) lol. HSM and Descendants follow it too.

[@hikeilokei]

I didn't know this but its a pattern I've begun to notice when writing these videos.

[@tdf_worldkey6666]

no because disney has a thing for this not just zombies but also decendents very black coded with them taking mal out the hood but the hood still being in mal essentially its such an odd thing to notice as a person of color

[@hikeilokei]

I’ve heard that one is odd too. Might have to do a video on it…

[@tdf_worldkey6666]

@@hikeilokei if you do ide definitely be looking forward to it. Interesting stuff

[@two.firstnames]

do you think i could borrow this idea too? i noticed that too (as a woman of color, I'm not white lmao) and i think it'd be interesting to talk about along with like all the issues on the isle and the love potion stuff

[@zaynab-to-a]

I think it's *great* that the main lessons these types of racism-allegory stories tell are don't do 1960s segregation and don't be Hitler. Very valuable and useful lessons for kids to learn. /s

[@Kassidy788]

They should've just re-released The Color of Friendship because that movie is not only good, but actually informative

[@alliew31]

Such fond memories of that movie

[@irongirltoni]

I watched that movie as a unit in social studies and I actually learned a lot

[@mothbott9461]

The first black person I ever met was the sweetest trans woman in the world. I thank her for making me not a racist shithead like my family.

[@hikeilokei]

Honestly that's really sweet. I'm glad you broke the cycle :)

[@HydraSpectre1138]

The whole "zombie outbreak being caused by leaking lime soda" feels like a Sonichu reference to me. In Sonichu, Black Sonichu was created by taking Sonichu's DNA and making a perfect clone of him, but he turned out different because they spilled cherry cola. I can't believe I saw a Disney Channel Original Movie, of all things, reference Chris Chan and his magnum opus Sonichu.

[@morxsine]

no fucking way

[@lukasilver1342]

4:47 It’s actually explained, vaguely, in the movie that it’s “cauliflower brains” so for some reason the humans make the zombies still eat something shaped like a brain, but when they can have regular food😂😂

[@s3W3]

They could be eating animal brains. Humans aren't the only things that have brains 🤣

[@hikeilokei]

They could, but (and I didn’t show this in the video for time reasons ) its only ever implied they like human brains. But the “canned brains” are artificial so we don’t know for sure 🤷🏾 But it would make sense if they just used like, left over pig brains or something.

[@kerisuri]

@@hikeilokei the canned brains are made of cauliflower, actually, Zed says it in either the first or second movie, I forget which one

[@themakizone]

Bonzo being a fan favourite was not something I expected when I first saw him but it's EXTREMELY understandable now, I love Bonzo

[@tyistyping]

Ive always loved dissecting movies like this. Ive had so many long discussions about this movie😭

[@hikeilokei]

I have a playlist of videos where I do this if you’re infested! I also plan on doing the sequel so stick around for that!

[@tyistyping]

@@hikeilokei oooh thanks for the content

[@SpartanX317]

This movie being a giant metaphor for racism doesn't surprise me as Disney also made Zootopia a few years later

[@mamrelaadi4066]

I've been hoping for someone to point out the movies' glaring flaws ever since I watched all three of them with my friends. I think I wouldn't have disliked Alison so much if the other characters had called her out on her weird "oh yeah I've been discriminated against too, because I have white hair :(" Like yeah, she does get bullied for it, which isn't okay, but comparing someone calling her "snowball" to Zed being denied the right to go to college is weird, right????

[@haylielegremlinfriend2805]

Really good editing! I had more fun watching this than I did the entirety of the Zombie movies I was forced to sit through.

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you! I’m glad you appreciate the editing :) it does take a lot of time! Who made you sit through Zombies tho 😭

[@cashnafrr]

I love your videos and am watching your stream right now

[@hikeilokei]

@@cashnafrr Omg hi Garfield x Weezer

[@mborevi7772]

Bong Joon-ho was heavily inspired by this movie when making the mediocre film "Parasite"

[@hikeilokei]

I’ve never seen that movie but people seem to agree with you lol

[@desihirohamada]

unrelated but omg power pfp

[@dakat5131]

There is a big problem with allegories that use "others" that aren't just different, but are actually dangerous. Assuming the zombies genuinely can't stop themselves from craving brains when the bracelet is disabled. It perpetuates the idea of "Those different people really are dangerous and scary, but it's ok to hang out with them a little since they have good traits too" IMO Zootopia does it somewhat better in that regard because (due to handwaving by the film) predators aren't inherently violent, they're just being targeted with a chemical that makes "prey" just as aggressive.

[@azazelgrigori9244]

Honestly, I LOOOOOOVED this series. Though, not because it's any good, but because it is hilariously dumb. I love how it fucks up its own message. I mean, after the zombies, no other monster group really cared (originally) about being part of the town. They only said it because they had sneaky ulterior motives. Both werewolves and aliens were causing trouble, either actively or simply just by existing. But people still had to accept them. Look at Zed! He saw the werewolves were trying to seduce his girlfriend, but he was in the wrong to think that. I'd say the overall message would be that you have to accept everyone. Even the people who are actively being jerks. As long as they belong to some fringe community, you can't call them out for it unless you're okay with being called a bigot. No, you just gotta hope that one day, you and your abuser can become friends. Great lesson! Also, the zombies are black-coded. The werewolves are natives. And the aliens are meant to represent autistic and lgbt people. As an autistic person, I'm not a fan of media portraying us as robots, aliens, or other unnatural things. Frankly, I'd rather be a werewolf. But I can still laugh even though I'm offended. I mean, Disney is hurting the people they claim to be helping. The hypocrisy is hilarious. Other than that, the movie's as bland as vanilla. I

[@hikeilokei]

Honestly you’re so right. I’ve been thinking about raising my fun score because it’s actually a lot more fun to make fun of when I wasn’t just watching it to make a video which might have biased me. It’s trash but it’s my trash 🥰

[@azazelgrigori9244]

@@hikeilokei In the immortal words of the nostalgia critic. "Enjoy your silly show. It may be ridiculous nonsense, but it's your ridiculous nonsense." But it's just as much my ridiculous nonsense as it is yours. And I gotta say. They did a great job with descendants. Freeing all the prisoners was such a smart move. There was no way that would ever backfire.

[@normalhuman9878]

Even I, a voidpunk that is not the biggest fan of being humanized, am getting tired of seeing ND coded characters being non human characters

[@themyofmy]

​@@normalhuman9878im getting mixed messages from your comment, your pfp, and your name

[@azazelgrigori9244]

@@normalhuman9878 I tend to prefer to be represented with characters that are magically inclined.

[@retcho212]

dude im dying for you to do Zombies 2 PLEASE it was so ridiculous

[@hikeilokei]

I will definitely be doing it sometime in the next month or 2

[@siomania]

fun fact: kylee russell is married with a kid so ... none of us can have her

[@hikeilokei]

I’m going to ignore that fact cause it is not fun!

[@neivilde.1242]

wait till he finds out she was pregnant during zombies 3 lmao

[@siomania]

@@neivilde.1242 her absence in zombies 3 is one of the biggest hate crimes from the zombies franchise

[@LittleFrogman]

For a second I thought this said she was married TO a kid and was really concerned why no one found it disturbing

[@gingermaniac5484]

why was her hair white rather than green? that would've made the "mom pressuring her to keep it covered" sub plot more understandable.. it would've made her trying to show it to prove a point more understandable

[@ClaudetteVioletta]

probably it didn't look pretty enough.

[@50ckz]

i think a good one would be to do decendants esp w how it kinda downplays abuse w the "villains" n shit idk

[@hikeilokei]

I’m gonna try and do that sometime in the coming months! These Disney channel movies have been my recent addiction 😭

[@normalhuman9878]

I remember Mulan’s kid cried because the villain kids never had chocolate chip cookies. Pretty sure there’s a lot more they never got, such as more than a single parent

[@ErieRosewood]

​@@normalhuman9878 honestly I kinda understand the message. like in a "they didn't even get something as simple and fundamental to my childhood as cookies" but yeah. it is super distasteful when there's so much more they missed out on

[@Spiderlass]

Press x to end oppression 🙄🙄🙄

[@michelles.6586]

should have been Z for zombies 😔

[@calcxte]

Why don’t they just make a movie with actual racism in it instead of using a bunch of analogies and stuff? It’s not like kids are too stupid to grasp the concept.

[@serrawilson2445]

I saw a TV show once where zombies needed to have brains in order to stay sapient. As long as they had a regular supply of them they could pass as human. One woman got around this by working at a morgue.

[@poccripeardew4750]

izombie ^^ it's izombie I believe.

[@Nockgun]

you mean to override their instinct, and stay asymptomatic?

[@roberthebert2826]

my friend and I have been torturing ourselves by trying to watch every single DCOM and we recently watched this one. In my two sentence review I called this movie a memetic virus because I swear my friend was actively turning into a Zombie while watching it because of how violently angry it made him.

[@hikeilokei]

Yeah I’ve been torturing myself too… I’m not sure the internet points are worth it 🧎🏽

[@cwahlb1]

@@hikeilokei thank u for ur sacrifice 🫡 i just watched danny gonzales do a review and went to find a more in depth review and found yours! def gonna watch ur other vids ur hilarious

[@forgottenboy9778]

The “Spectrum Squad” part killed me LMAO my niece loves this movie and descendants, so this video was incredibly informative to me. Also fuck af

[@hikeilokei]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@emilylogan2379]

As a zombie mom I’d be scared a football hit would cause my son’s decaying body to immediately fall apart

[@Dioxazine_Stars]

28:23 I watched this movie before I learned about the Little Rock 9. When my class read Warriors Don’t Cry I thought “hey this is like that zombie cheerleader movie” 😭

[@hikeilokei]

NAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@ErieRosewood]

that's so foul

[@febreezeofdespair]

Addison seems like she would say she was bisexual but wouldn’t date a girl so she could be quirky

[@thedeliveryboy1123]

the blackcoded race metaphor only gets worse when researching the history of the concept of zombies and finding out that, according to a couple of sources, zombies originated from the zombi, who Haitians believed to be the reanimated corpse of an enslaved person and whose mythology is ultimately fueled by the enslaved people's fear of being unable to be liberated, even through death so yeah this movie was interesting

[@ClassicGameFire]

The funniest scene to me is the first song with zombies on one side of the fence and humans on the other side, like yeah Disney segregation was that chill back in the day. And i know it’s supposed to be for younger audiences but man did this miss

[@car_horn]

"racism doesnt change unless you deep-fry the racists" this is the kind of comedy that you have to go on a noble quest to find, and the reward was a 10% off coupon to disneyland

[@creed8712]

Lazy allegory is always my favorite because it never does enough to try and justify why actual flesh eating monsters who are a windows update crash away from killing everyone shouldn’t be treated with fear. It’s like X-men, I’d also be a little less tolerant if every other weekend one of the reality warmers decided her fake kids need to be real

[@blueskylark9965]

I mean we can give the X men credit because like, mutants aren inherently monsters or evil, or violent. Like Angel is just a dude with wings. Nine of that makes him inherently violent.

[@TearsBehindSmiles]

Oh nooo! I was not expecting you to scroll through the Zombies subreddit and for me to see a picture of my wife and I in our Halloween costumes after all that! I’m a huge Zombies fan. I love how dumb and cheesy it is at times, but how sincere the actors play it. I personally really enjoy the music (it’s a massive set up from the Descendants movies, which I also love, but are objectively pretty bad). The Zombies movies are clunky in their messaging, but I’m honestly surprised that Disney let them get anywhere near this subject matter. In the third movie, there’s a character who canonly uses they/them pronouns and is shown having a crush on a male character and then a female character, which I appreciate. The way my wife describes the series constantly adding new supernatural monsters is that it’s like they downloaded a new Sims pack for each movie. It’s stupid, it doesn’t make any sense, but it’s also funny and kind of charming. And all of the actors are genuinely charismatic (again, contrasting Descendants, where not everyone is, uh, very talented) and playing their parts well. You’ve also never truly lived until you see a whole classroom of 4 and 5 year olds making their own mosh pit while dancing to BAMM. We had to have a little discussion about movie magic when they started trying to drop themselves on the floor like the zombies (I’m a pre-k teacher, and all of my students love these movies).

[@hikeilokei]

I think it’s great that you enjoy these! I’m just over cynical/ critical. Don’t ever let me or anyone else stop you from enjoying something you enjoy!

[@TearsBehindSmiles]

@@hikeilokei Abolutely! I think you have a very balanced take on it! Like most DCOMs and kids media in general, it’s not for everyone. They’re not perfect in any way, but I enjoy silly, dumb kids movies. I just REALLY wasn’t expecting to be personally dragged via participating on the reddit. Time to go into hiding forever now! /lh

[@Venus-sv1uj]

LMAOOO THE BAMM KIDS PART

[@ace_of_cakes]

I agree with everything you have to say, but I wholeheartedly love the ZOMBIES trilogy. They are not good movies, but they get so batshit crazy that they're extremely fun to watch drunk. Also the choreography is pretty good, and the songs are generally catchy. These movies are problematic af, I would not show them to a child, but they're great if you want to turn off your brain and laugh at the chaos

[@hikeilokei]

I completely agree

[@sylwiaanna2423]

I was literally WAITING for someone to do an analysis of these movies 😂

[@hikeilokei]

Haha yeah I’m hoping to get to the whole series!

[@cayanne3420]

4:27 If I'm not mistaken (I could because it's been a little while since I've seen this movie) but I think that cauliflower is a brain substitute, so no humans harmed.

[@hikeilokei]

I should’ve been more specific in my script but it is “artificial brains” so it’s likely just vegetables or something. So you’re probably right but they never did say specifically what it is.

[@luxill0s]

It also could be just pig brain or something, not human brain

[@Anonymous_Gambito]

Somehow I find the idea of cauliflower being the vegan substitute for human brains to be very funny

[@astrxlsev]

no bc when i saw the fence at the school my mouth actually dropped😭. i was like there’s no way they got away with this?!?

[@ghostcharge]

the thing that bothers me is that they painted addison to be the white savior. the movie franchise is called “zombies” yet it’s all about addison and her saying the day

[@mothslanding0324]

i genuinely saw this for the first time in the psychiatric wing of the hospital i was staying at and just. the way those songs were stuck in my brain as I had few distractions throughout the day was clinically devious

[@jerrythemagicalllama]

The continuous bit you do with the "spectrum squad" and referring to them only as their sexuality label is my FAVORITE part of this video, you had me dying the whole time

[@Blusheoom]

It’s the fact that the main character or the “solution” character HAS to have something to relate to the victims to, instead of just not being ignorant.

[@Kassidy788]

It makes me severly uncomfortable how much Malcolm X and Josh Gad look alike in the pictures you showed

[@hikeilokei]

😭

[@belenbarria568]

To be fair, no Disney Channel movie that went on to have sequels has a kiss in the first one

[@hikeilokei]

That is oddly accurate cause I JUST finished lemonade mouth for next week and not even during the WEDDING so we see two characters kiss. THERE WERE 4 ROMANCES

[@belenbarria568]

@@hikeilokei I think it might be something to do with it being a kids and teen channel?? But I don't know, seems weird 😅

[@ihavenoclueeither]

I genuinely burst out laughing when Bucky jumped out of the tapestry of himself in the same pose with another tapestry behind it

[@MoonsickRaccoon8888]

Dude I just found your account through tiktok how do you only have 4k subscribers??? That’s insane! Like your content is genuinely good and well written to the point I just binged it all in a day Anyways you should totally do a review on the movie called The Menu it’s really good

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you for the compliment! Ive been growing slowly but surely and I really hope that I grow more cause doing this as my part time job in university would be fun, but for now I enjoy my small little channel :) And I will put your recommendation on the list!

[@syntext]

They're coming for the OG High School Musical with this movie: musical high school, "I'm not like the other jocks" plot line, NO kiss between the romantic leads despite it feeling unnatural for them not to. Also, Bucky is Sharpay.

[@communistloser3182]

Me and my friend get piss drunk and watch all three fairly often. When Zombies 3 released we had a watch along, got high, and chilled. I have never seen any of these movies sober

[@UchihaKat]

6:30 "I IMPLORE you to save it for this guy" omg you had me rolling. XD

[@hikeilokei]

I love using the word implore and I don’t know why

[@applejuice7108]

So fun(ish) fact, the 'author'/adapter of the Uncle Remus tales, what 'Song of the South' is based on, learned the tales from the slaves on the plantation that he worked on. He apparently felt more comfortable with the slaves because he was of irish decent, an illegitimate child, and had red hair, and thus he felt more belonging. Of course, being a red head, irish, and not knowing your father when people bullied you for it sucks but is in no way comparable to being a literal slave because of your skin colour. It's beyond funny to me that Disney, with their track record, pretty much had the same motivations and feelings for their human lead.

[@FurretWok]

That just unlocked a memory in my brain, the first time my little sister met a black person he was our doctor and she said "You look like chocolate" and my mom was all shocked but he just laughed lmao.

[@alliew31]

My roommate and I saw these and saw zombies as african Americans, werewolves as indigenous, and aliens as refuges (specifically asian due to their depiction as smarter than the others) Also if Addison wasn’t the main character I’d say she’s an allegory for cultural appropriation and I would give these movies much more credit. As is, it’s ok for kids but I feel like the writers need to get out of their bubble

[@catgonzalez6979]

I tried to explain the plot to this movie to my friends and I could not explain all its,,, charm? I’m glad I have this video to do the job for me instead

[@hikeilokei]

Haha, thanks for sending it around :) Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@DigiDestined13]

What doesn't help the racism allegory is that the humans have a legitimate reason to fear the zombies - they don't want to die.

[@troyfernandez8331]

i’m an asian studies major and i analyzed zombies through the ten stages of genocide (thats what i was learning in class at the time ok). classification (stage 1): separating the minority group from the others. in zombies that would be the fence, the school segregation, and the wall being built. symbolization (stage 2): marking the minority group as “different” from the others. the coveralls that the government has them wear. discrimination (stage 3): zombies having a curfew, being heavily policed because they’re “dangerous”, and being unallowed to integrate into human high school. dehumanization (stage 4): “zombie” being said like a slur, the school being labelled “normals” vs “zombies”. obviously the movie doesn’t enter the later stages because its a kids movie and that would be dark. still, the ending is wild to me because i don’t really think that you can end years of discrimination with a cheer competition 😭. i also don’t think that the audience would have treated zoey super nicely if this movie was rooted in reality, it’s young activists who are unfairly insulted by adults lol.

[@PupPupAbawi]

I really loved how you kept talking about the names of Zevon with Z and devon as the new name

[@randomkword]

I don't know you, but you're one of the funniest youtubers I've seen in a while

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you :) I appreciate that!

[@joutatheegg]

I hate that the colors, visuals and set design for this movie is so visually appealing and professional looking

[@user-oi2ef1fc9o]

If you like the concept of these movies but want something more adult for lack of a better word there is a show called In The Flesh. It kinda has the same plot about former zombies turning aware/human again and humans are obviously terrified of the former zombies. But it doesn’t really take place in a school and has more real world problems then omg zombie are going to ruin cheerleading or something.

[@d-wow5307]

where can u watch it ?

[@ErieRosewood]

there's also the short "less than human" I haven't watched it in a while but it's cute

[@catsandclassics]

I'm just surprised her wig didn't come off doing all those crazy flips and spins

[@nevamoore5192]

I'm sorry but I just had to pop in and say, your plushies are EVERYTHING. They're so adorable!

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you!

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Bucky looks like if it were made in the past he would be played by the actor of Justin from Wizards

[@ElizabethMidfordHatesCops]

This trilogy is the only thing I consider my "guilty pleasure." There are so many thing wrong with it, and every time I rewatch the movies I find more problematic themes in them. The first movie is hot garbage, but I liked the second movie. And then after liking the second and third movie, the first one grew on me. Personally, I am ashamed. The only redeeming quality is the music, and I can't even say that about the first movie. And yet I'm enthralled.

[@hikeilokei]

This is me with the Sharknado movies. They just scratch a silly little itch in the back of my head.

[@Darling_Decay]

We all have those movies we hate to love. Mine is Twilight which is pretty basic

[@lightyelp4357]

EXACTLY

[@edgyelectrokinetic6761]

I can't really blame you. A lot of people have their movies they love to dissect the layers of what went wrong with them. I should really find that kind of movie for myself. Edit: I found it, and it's Cars 2

[@_.glitch_]

the second one is by far the best. the songs are great and the werewolves carried

[@rachelplummer4579]

Wow, a movie critic who doesn’t need cussing to be entertaining. Your voice is the perfect balance of energy and chill so I can watch you at any energy level. Keep up the great work!

[@annetheelf8174]

When I showed my cousin this trilogy she was shocked because this is the farthest thing from subtle there could possibly be. Also I feel like in the future movies Addison gets on Zed so much about not fighting more for rights but like he was turned into the "model minority" and of course he didn't want to rock the boat after finally getting rights because protesting and fighting back could take away all the rights zombies were just barely given

[@macwithab]

idk why i was thinking this but if the timeline was the exact same before the lime soda factory incident,,,, segregation would’ve ended abt 4 years prior (assuming the movie takes place in 2018)

[@hikeilokei]

I ACTUALLY HAD A JOKE ABOUT THAT! I CUT IT FOR TIME REASONS (the video was over 40 minutes long 😭)

[@ErieRosewood]

honestly typical for ending racism "we've decided you're cool now because we've found new people to hate😄"

[@darthxader1112]

I need to be honest… Racism and bigotry is kinda justified when the other group is literally flesh eating zombies who did have an actual apocalypse and are only stoped by a flimsy metal band

[@PlagueBunny]

I came from your tiktok, and I really enjoyed the video. Your editing is really well done and clean.❤

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you so much!!

[@PlagueBunny]

@@hikeilokei you’re welcome!

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

“I’m 20 and I hate when people enjoy things.” Me: “I’m 30 and I hate people” Me in 10 years: “I’m 40 and I hate.”

[@reptilianstudios8994]

I just can't stop thinking of how these scenes would look is Addison was a straight up alien. Like, very clearly from another world, not remotely human like.

[@pixelatedpickle2561]

i decided to sub because it’s so refreshing to hear the black perspective on Films like this that are so openly white savior complex tone deaf circle jerks. Also i came from your HoodWinked and Scott Pilgrim reviews respectively. Love your work. keep it up friend.

[@SnoreLolz]

It’s gonna be hilarious when he reviews Zombies 3

[@hikeilokei]

Im so excited to get to it! I’m expecting nothing less than confusion

[@joeyburkhart6602]

Playing Devil's Advocate here, what if they were like "Ok you can go to human school with the humans" and their Anti-Zombie bands like break and people die. Like, this movie is clearly about Racism but the difference between Racism and Zombies is that Black people did not go around murdering people.

[@cascharles3838]

This reminded me of the BBC show In The Flesh. It's also set a while after the zombie apocalypse where zombies are being integrated back into society. It got cancelled after two seasons but it's a really good show, and in my opinion pretty good at nuanced social commentary. Far better than this film which, to be fair, isn't surprising considering it's a disney film. But in the flesh manages to have some good commentary without just making the zombies one real life race lmao. In fact, especially in the first season, the struggles of the main (zombie) character are more about homophobia and the demonisation of mental illness. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes the barebone concept of this film

[@minecraftrotisseriechicken]

"the marvelous misadventures of malcolm x and josh gad" holy shit hahaha

[@hikeilokei]

Thank you for liking that joke. No one else posted that out but it still makes me giggle when I think about it.

[@amarvelousgeek222]

I swear there's a rule with DCOMs that the main characters can't kiss until the second movie. It happened in ZOMBIES, Descendants, Camp Rock, and I think even High School Musical

[@hikeilokei]

There is! I've had so many comments tell me this and I feel stupid for not knowing lol

[@waffleauflauf4213]

I can see how the movie(s) could be really cool if it started with the same introduction, with an entire zombie apocalypse supposedly starting because some dude spilled his soda, but the movies slowly began to dig deeper as the protagonists accidentally began to realize it actually was a lot more than that, and what was established as a goofy intro was actually the coverup for something a lot more serious. Bonus points if it tied in with addition's white hair. (Before anyone says anything, I spelled her name wrong on purpose). This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.