Fifty years ago in the planned community of Seabrook, an accident at the Power Plant resulted in an explosion which caused half the population to turn into brain-eating zombies. Eventually, those that weren't affected managed to construct a wall to quarantine the zombies.
Five decades later, the government has invented bracelets that deliver electromagnetic pulses that suppress the zombies' violent urges. The zombies now live peacefully in their own community, eating cauliflower in place of brains and raising little zombie children. I guess they're still alive, despite being called 'zombies'.
A law has just been passed requiring that zombie kids be allowed to attend human school, which is not a popular decision on the human side of the wall. The zombie kids are made to feel far from welcome, and if you think this sounds like a not very subtle reference to the forced desegregation of schools in the US, you are right, because it is not subtle at all.
Anyway, zombie boy meets seemingly perfect human girl, and there is instant, non-brain eating chemistry. Will the power of love and heavily choreographed musical numbers heal the wounds of this divided town, or will it get really really Romeo and Juliet in here? Well, this is a Disney channel film, so you probably shouldn't expect it to head into Shakespearian Tragedy Town.
Imagine Bring It On as an outright musical, and with much more overtly over the top set and costume design, and you're starting to get the kind of movie this is. I honestly had more fun watching it than I expected. Fun stuff.
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