Zombies 4: Daybreak of the Vampires continues the Disney film franchise’s custom of being chock-full of unique musical numbers. It’s the fourth installment within the Zombies franchise, which kicked off in 2018 with the unique film, which adopted the blossoming forbidden love between teenage zombie Zed (Milo Manheim) and cheerleader Addison (Meg Donnelly).
2025’s Zombies 4: Daybreak of the Vampires acts as a legacy sequel, following Zed and Addison – now a long-established couple whose love has helped change the city of Seabrook and heal the rift between zombies and people – discovering themselves in the course of a battle between vampires and daywalkers at a supernatural summer season camp.
Whereas it stays to be seen if the newly launched characters will in the end take up the torch of the franchise, new analogues to Zed and Addison are launched within the type of peppy daywalker Nova (Freya Skye) and funky vampire Victor (Malachi Barton), who fall in love regardless of the longstanding concern and mistrust that exists between their communities.
This story is instructed by a cavalcade of manufacturing numbers, solos, duets, and even a number of reprises of songs from earlier installments within the franchise. Nevertheless, among the 11 musical numbers are higher than others.
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“Dream Come True” (Intro)
A Pre-prise That is Too Brief To Make An Impression
Whereas this pre-prise is just meant to supply a style of an upcoming track from the Disney Channel Unique Film (DCOM), it’s too temporary of a style. The extraordinarily quick period of the intro to “Dream Come True” cuts off so rapidly that it feels perfunctory fairly than being a correct introduction to the burgeoning love between Victor and Nova.
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“Present The World”
A Generic Disney Channel Closing Quantity
“Present the World” options gifted dancers performing strong choreography, however it blends in with the opposite middle-of-the-pack choices. Plus, the track is weaker, sounding like one thing that may play over the closing credit of an animated film.
The choreographer for Daybreak of the Vampires was Dondraico Johnson, who additionally labored on Zombies 3.
Along with being musically generic, “Collectively as One” is thematically generic. DCOMs have lengthy been chasing the glory of Excessive College Musical‘s “We’re All in This Collectively,” a closing quantity that options all the forged singing about having resolved their variations.
Nevertheless, no copycat quantity has lived as much as that track’s iconic standing, together with Excessive College Musical 2‘s personal “All For One” and the Zombies franchise’s two earlier makes an attempt, which have been Zombies 2‘s “One for All” and Zombies 3‘s “Nothing However Love.”
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“My Personal Manner”
A Solo That Would not Actually Stand Out
Whereas Freya Skye is a gifted performer with a crystal clear voice, Nova’s massive solo quantity “My Personal Manner” does not have the vitality to be price spending a lot time away from the remainder of the forged. Moreover, the best way that the track layers Skye together with her personal vocals is considerably jarring for a solo quantity.
Moreover, identical to “Present the World,” Nova’s solo track is simply too eager to evoke the historical past of the DCOM, as it does not differentiate itself sufficient from the track “Gotta Go My Personal Manner” from Excessive College Musical 2.
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“Doable”
A Solidly Carried out However Underwritten Quantity
“Doable” has some great harmonic components which are evocative of Inexperienced Day’s 2009 album twenty first Century Breakdown, however the lyrics are fairly weak, overusing the underwhelming phrase “unattainable is feasible.” It additionally does not have a lot in the best way of choreography, because it’s largely used to underscore a montage.
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“Sometime” (Reprise)
An Emotional Interpretation Of A Recurring Tune
“Sometime,” which is the love track carried out by Zed and Addison within the unique Zombies, has to date been reprised in all 4 installments within the franchise. What started because the characters expressing their earnest hope for a future the place they’ll love each other brazenly has since been reinterpreted, largely as a mirrored image on how far they’ve come.
Whereas most variations of “Sometime” are carried out by Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly alone, nearly all of the forged of Zombies 3 carried out that film’s reprise.
Zombies 4‘s “Sometime” reprise comes throughout a second the place Addison is lamenting that she could also be about to lose Zed. Whereas Meg Donnelly imbues the quantity with an excessive amount of emotion, it does not actually match the scene lyrically, making the track selection really feel considerably random.
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“Legends In The Making”
A Vigorous Opening Quantity
Whereas Zombies 4‘s opening quantity “Legends within the Making” is energetic and a very good method to open the film with a burst of vitality, the well-performed group choreography does not essentially stand out towards the opposite numbers within the film.
Nevertheless, its closing second, the place the returning forged masses themselves up in a automobile for his or her summer season highway journey, is a wonderful grace observe that evokes basic film musical moments like Sandy and Danny driving off into the sky within the ending of 1978’s Grease.
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“Do not Mess With Us”
A Traditional Dance Battle
Together with “The Place to Be,” “Do not Mess with Us” is among the songs that was chosen as a single to be launched forward of the film’s debut as a part of its promotional marketing campaign. This was a strong selection, as a result of the quantity illustrates the core battle of the film with a enjoyable dance battle.
Moreover, the usage of S-shaped sticks that may type hoops provides a artistic factor to the quantity and underscores the themes of how two seemingly disparate halves can create unity.
The slow-motion impact [applied to the background dancers] seems to be unusual and finally ends up being distracting.
Nevertheless, the factor that places this track barely under its fellow lead single is the second the place Nova and Victor meet for the primary time, with the opposite dancers performing in gradual movement behind them.
Whereas it’s evocative of an analogous scene in 2005’s Satisfaction and Prejudice, it does not work as nicely at isolating the principle couple from the remainder of the motion as a result of the slow-motion impact seems to be unusual and finally ends up being distracting.
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“The Place To Be”
One Of The Signature Songs From Zombies 4
It is sensible why “The Place to Be” was chosen as a single from among the many different songs on the film’s soundtrack, as a result of the group quantity is the one which introduces each the setting of the film and its core battle. Nevertheless, it is also received a energetic and fascinating sound, because of its motifs of whistles and claps.
Along with boasting enjoyable choreography the place the vampires and the daywalkers mirror one another, foreshadowing the theme that their communities work higher collectively, “The Place to Be” additionally affords a enjoyable, dynamic second the place the vampires carry out within the surf on the seaside. The splashing water provides a brand new dimension to their actions, elevating all the quantity.
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“Dream Come True”
Victor & Nova’s Love Ballad
Victor and Nova’s love ballad “Dream Come True,” when it lastly arrives, isn’t the most effective songs on the soundtrack. The lyrics lean a lot too onerous on the phrase “yeah,” for one factor, making it really feel an excessive amount of like teenybopper dance music for a ballad. Nevertheless, whereas the track itself is not notably spectacular, the staging of the quantity is superb.
The hovering choreography [mirrors] how their love uplifts them each…
It could already be memorable for the chemistry that Freya Skye and Malachi Barton have as dancers, however it reaches new heights when the characters use Victor’s vampire powers to take to the air, with the hovering choreography mirroring how their love uplifts them each.
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“Kerosene”
Zed’s Standout Monitor
Some of the thrilling new songs within the unique film musical is “Kerosene,” which is an earwormy rap-rock quantity that evokes Tinie Tempah’s “Written within the Stars.” The choreography is considerably underwhelming, although, specializing in pragmatic plot components (it takes place whereas Zed is psyching himself as much as probably sacrifice himself to avoid wasting his group) fairly than aesthetic choreography.
Nonetheless, Manheim’s wholehearted dedication to the emotion of his efficiency makes it considered one of Zed’s greatest numbers in all the franchise. In that approach, it’s just like Zac Efron’s efficiency of “Guess On It” from Excessive College Musical 2, which opts for pure emotional expression fairly than flashy choreography.