Ana y el apocalipsis

Anna and the Apocalypse is a fun film that starts excellent and finishes ok. The early songs are extremely good and worthy of any high end musical out there. The lead Ella Hunt is a star in the making with not only great vocals, but a believable performance as Anna. Whilst she could stand firm in any west end musical, I feel her talents are destined to stay with the silver screen, as she is able to capture beautifully subtle facial expressions which make the character very likeable and real.

The support vocals and acting are very good from some and ok from others, but overall it never lives up to the strength of the opening 30 minutes.

The horror zombie element was very well done and a similar quality to Shaun of the Dead, but I wonder if this could have actually been two separate films. One musical and one comedy horror, as it did both fairly well, but for me they didn't mesh together well enough to sustain for the whole run time.

Not enough cool zombie kills for horror fans and not enough quality songs for musical fans.

Overall though, I enjoyed the film and would recommend it to any fan of either genre.

What a massively disappointing conclusion. I have no idea how they could possibly mess up the second half this badly.

The film starts off perfectly, a perfect commitment to the cheese and the campiness, genuine talent put into the songs, an awful lot of great slapstick, and over the top performances.

And then they forgot what movie they were making. The film commits so much to its zombie film satire that it becomes an actual zombie film. It attempts to be sad, serious, dramatic. They start killing characters that have no reason to die because...?

I am so incredibly disappointed. I laughed so so hard for like 35 minutes and then nothing.

This is a solid 6 for me. It's an interesting concept which is not easy to pull off. And this is ultimately where it falls down. It's not a horror, comedy or musical but it tries to be. Not as smart as Shaun of the Dead.

The comparison with Shaun of the Dead does it no favours though. Shaun of the Dead is a masterpiece. This is not.

I enjoyed this though. It's entertaining. Could have been gorier though.

Pre-dating Disney's "Zombies" musical by a year, "Anna and the Apocalypse" is the decidedly un-family friendly R-rated teen angsty holiday zombie musical you didn't realize you needed. Set at Christmastime, the teens of a small Scottish village contend with both the undead and still having to go to high school. Our heroine, Anna, is having problems with her ex-boyfriend, while her platonic guy friend secretly pines for her, not to mention her dad, who's the school custodian is on her case about her wanting to take a gap year before starting college. Throw in a mean-girl competition over who will star in the school holiday pageant and this film is positively "High School Musical" meets George A. Romero (in a super fun way, that is). Ella Hunt is charming as Anna, as well as pretty badass, wielding a deadly prop oversized candy cane as a weapon. However, although Anna is an endearing protagonist, most of the supporting characters are mostly paper-thin high school movie archetypes and the teen drama elements are all pretty familiar. Overall, the film's mash-up premise and Hunt in the lead as Anna goes a long way to make "Anna and the Apocalypse" enjoyable escapist nonsense.

I'd give it a 6.5!!

While not epic, this movie is a lot of fun. If you're a fan of musicals and zombie movies, this one is for you!!