During Fantastic Fest 2017, we saw a movie so good we couldn't wait for others to see it (and simply ran the review). Anna and the Apocalypse is an extremely clever mash-up of several beloved genres that seems too odd on paper to work: zombie movie, Christmas story, and high school musical. Luckily, the film quickly attracted a distributor in early 2018. Now with Anna and the Apocalypse hitting select theaters this weekend and expanding elsewhere on December 7, 2018, we're resurfacing our review. The piece originally ran on October 7, 2017, and it appears unchanged below.
New trailer for Anna and the Apocalypse.
AUSTIN, Texas—Even if it looks straight out of the DCOM (Disney Channel original movie) playbook, do not be fooled by the familiar bubblegum-ness of Anna and the Apocalypse's first 15 minutes.
Yes, likable young people fill in various archetypes, from the artistic outcast to the popular jerk to the nice-guy best friend who'll forever be "just friends" with our heroine. And yes, Top 40-pop styled musical numbers focus on familiar adolescent themes of defying the expectations of others or how life doesn't follow movie scripts in practice. At one point, a stick-in-the-mud principal devoted to rules and regulations literally proclaims, "hand sanitizer is your friend; kissing on the mouth is not your friend."
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