Zombieland Saga Movie: Yumeginga Paradise

Very fun movie. Just like the main show this movie is full of its bizarre moments.
Just like in the trailer we see Tae talk in a normal manner for the first time, instead of making zombie grunts like she usually does in the show. This makes creates some interesting and sometimes funny dialogue with the characters.
The movie also has a lot of action scenes, which is definitely a new thing for the franchise. But they are done in a very funny and awesome way.

I definitely think this movie is better that the second season for Zombieland Saga. Sakura has a more prominent roll ... in the movie compared to season 2. Of course the star of the movie is Tae.

I have you are one of those people who thought the second season was disappointing and are not sure about the movie. I say give it a watch.

I am not big on Idol anime series. However, Zombie Land Saga was one of the few idol series that I actually thoroughly enjoyed! It was a hilarious comedy on girls who died and got turned into zombies to become idols. Despite the wacky premise, it explored deep themes of death, regret and second chances that made it more than just a generic idol anime.

This sequel movie isn't really any of that...

It's a straight-up alien invasion film and less about the idol group singing or overcoming past regrets. It's an incredibly weird and tonally different sequel but the ludicrous nature of the premise does ... result in the film being a lot of fun. Plus, the biggest incentive to this film is seeing an awakened Tae!

The film is a bit long at 2 hours with some pacing issues, we don't get much on Tae's past despite her awakening, the ending is a little disappointing and there are still tons of loose plot threads.

I hope we do get a proper and more authentic season 3 though.

This was a huge waste of time. I’m not even sure if it’s because the movie itself sucks or because I hadn’t watched anything Zombieland Saga-related in so long that I completely fell out of its vibe. Probably a bit of both.

You’d think that in a franchise where a guy literally digs up seven dead girls, revives them as zombies and forces them to become idols to save Saga Prefecture, literally anything could happen. Well, not really. I already had doubts about the alien plot when they teased it at the end of Season 2, but this movie pretty much confirmed all my worst fears. ... The funniest part? Tae (the same Tae who spent two whole seasons acting like a feral gremlin) suddenly wakes up and becomes the main driving force of the story. Whether that’s actually a good thing or not is debatable.

For most of its two hours, the movie felt like one of those random cash grab shonen filler flicks. There’s a ridiculously overpowered threat, the mains are somehow the only ones who can stop it, everyone gets their mandatory cool moment, and by the end they just sweep the whole conflict under the rug like it never happened. We learn basically nothing new. The Xu Fu legend is still untouched, the crazy producer's subplot from Season 2 (hinting that the girls might be draining his life force) is completely ignored, and the long-awaited Sakura-Koutarou past gets nothing but a half-assed nod at the very end. But hey, at least we got to act like Power Rangers.
I’ve never been a fan of when a parody slowly stops parodying something and just becomes the thing it used to make fun of. Zombieland Saga started as a clever idol anime spoof, but it’s been drifting away from that for a while now. Another problem is that the movie takes itself way too seriously at times. Giant laser massacres, world-ending disasters, state of emergency announcements with those boring af filler characters… it all felt completely out of place. If they really wanted to do the alien thing, why not make it stupid and fun? Like the aliens only agree to spare Earth if our idols can beat theirs in a singing/dancing contest. That would’ve at least made sense for the franchise. Instead we got a lame Independence Day rip-off.

Visually it’s nothing special either. There’s barely any improvement over the TV seasons, and outside of maybe two cool shots, most of it looks pretty uninspired. The music was fine though, and hearing Mitsuishi Kotono actually speak properly after all that feral grunting from Tae was genuinely shocking. She’s still great.
In the end I was a bit generous with the score. I still care about this franchise, and I think there’s enough left for one more season, but it doesn't change the fact this movie was both forced and unnecessary at the same time.