There's an infectious energy to John McPhail's Anna and the Apocalypse, a certain kind of f**k-it-let's-do-it energy one rarely gets from more polished films. This one at times feels like a group of high school drama kids and amateur horror filmmakers somehow managed to get hold of some money, a camera, and a legitimately impressive score. For the first thirty minutes it's a delightful spasm of feel-good silliness mixed with the right blend of sincerity. Then the zombies hit and it becomes a more straightforward zombie film. All well and good. But it frequently forgets it's a musical, going 10-15 minutes at a time without any music. But the ultimate problem with the film is that it both wants to send-up and make fun of zombie survival tropes while also earnestly clinging to them, resulting in many clunky scenes of forced character and relationship development that felt old hat a mere year or two after George A. Romero hit the scene. Still, it's fine fun. And boy, can't those kids sing!
Rating: 6/10
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