We Are Zombies 4K 2023

A cheerful young comedy zombie horror film with an original but simple plot and black, often bloody and violent, also simple humor.

Perhaps, that's all you need to know about the movie for those who haven't seen it yet and are thinking whether it's worth it.

Moreover, there is probably no point in writing a (more detailed) review about such a movie at all. You watched it and moved on. It is purely an “entertainment product”, which does not pretend to anything more.

There is no point, but there is a desire to pografomantivateluet, so I continue.

So, the plot is original. More precisely, not even the plot, but the “staging”, the plot, the “rules of the game”, the presented world. Zombies are shown not as “template” brainless brain-eaters, but as the same intelligent non-aggressive creatures, just “different”. Actually, if you think about it, this idea is not that original (the idea that “different” doesn't mean “bad”). You can remember the cartoon about the Canterville Ghost, the book (which you, perhaps, like me, have not read, but which you have heard about anyway due to the strong divergence of its plot from the movie of the same name) “I Am Legend”. The same many vampires. Though vampires are still more “humanoid”, so it's a little different story with them, more like “strangers among us”... In short, the view of zombies as reasonable adequate beings can't be called directly new. Rather, it is not hackneyed. And that's why it's original.

In addition to originality, the plot differs in that it is rather “unstressful”, uncomplicated. No, I was interested in it, but it's just all kind of... Let's go here, clap-clap, then here. It's fast, smooth, dynamic. No superdrama, no serious conflict, no stunning one hundred and eighty-degree surprises (one of the messages of the movie is that everything was fine until a selfish greedy man came and ruined everything). On the other hand, it's a youthful near-thrash zombie comedy - nothing seemed to suggest depth. So I marked it just in case.

And a small detail that I liked and liked separately - it's a satire on the agenda and hype around the defense of minority rights. Zombies - they're just “alternatively alive” - as a talking TV show claimed in one of the opening scenes of the movie. In addition, I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but the dark-skinned actors in the movie are all “bad guys” (nothing special or outstanding, I just didn't expect it from a “modern picture”). Another “nice” reference to modernity” is the coronavirus motif (although ‘zombovirus’ has been used in movies before and not only, but still).

Conclusion... Usually this is where you summarize briefly, say something pithy and clever. But since this is a review of a lightweight, original zombie movie, it should end the review accordingly... Ketchup is the blood of tomatoes, and fries are the fried limbs of potato men. Think about that the next time you order ketchup fries at your favorite fast food joint, among like-minded tomato vampires and potato zombies.