Episode 183: Freaks of Nature

The Undead Symphony

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You remember those meals where you didn't really have everything you needed? Maybe it was a few days before payday and you need to make something with what you have? So you have kosher chicken hot dog wieners, Marinara sauce and 2 minute noodles for dinner? Well this movie from 2015 is that meal.
In a town where Dennis Leary's factory dominates the skyline, and he sponsors everything, using the money he makes from selling the Ribblet, a processed meat product with a chemical found on Saturn (WTAF?), humans, vampires and zombies live peacefully and in harmony.
We have all the high school nonsense, bullying, the pretty guy pressuring the girls into having sex with aggressive manipulation, stoners, uptight teachers, and friendships gained and lost.
Nerd Ned, awkward baseball pitcher Dag, and slutty girl Petra are all human. Although Ned is bullied and sees the zombies are totally chilled about everything, so lets himself get turned, and Petra is pressed until she lets the handsome lead vamp turn her too.
Aliens then turn up and the vamps think the humans called them to wipe them out, the humans thinks the vamps called them to wipe them out, and the zombies... well they just wonder why no one brought the days supplies of brains.
Everyone turns on each other, and the 3 main characters are thrown together trying to work out what is going on, whilst rekindling friendships. Oh and there is a alien voiced by Werner Herzog, and a family of werewolves.
In the end it was that meal. Was it tasty? The comedy was very funny, maybe too funny. Michael-Keegan Kay, Patton Oswalt and Bob Odenkirk, and Ned, were hilarious. Kay too funny at times, because it didn't balance with the heavy teen stuff of losing parents, forcing someone into sex and bullying. The drama was too dramatic for the comedy, and the comedy was too funny for the drama.
If you like two minute noodles with your kosher hot dogs and marinara sauce you will love this. I thought it was ok.
5.5/10