I enjoy all things zombie, and it was with some curiosity that I purchased "Daddy, I'm a Zombie", as I had never heard about it and as it was an animated movie.

The good thing about the movie is the Tim Burton-esque feel there is to the animation style. It is lacking the final dark touch to be up to Tim Burton's work, but aside from that, then the animation style here is actually quite good. However, there is just something about the animation itself that falters and sort of seem like it is missing a couple of frames here and there.

The characters in the movie were nice and likable, after all this is a PG rated movie, so the characters are just conveniently enough dark, twisted and morbid to be enjoyable even by an adult audience. However, bear in mind that this is not a regular zombie story or regular zombie movie.

The storyline is simple and straight forward, very easy to follow and understand, even for the younger audience. And the characters are portrayed in ways that it is very clear to see who is good and who is evil. Stereotypical? Yes, but for a PG rated movie it works out just well enough.

That being said, then "Daddy, I'm a Zombie" tends to be superficial and not really delving much into the various characters or story plot line. As such, then the movie is enjoyable a single time or so, and I doubt that I will be putting it on a second time. For an animated movie, then "Daddy, I'm a Zombie" is fun for the younger audience without being scary. However, it is no "Hotel Transylvania", though.

I was quite surprised to find out that this animated movie was produced and made in Spain. Which was actually a nice surprise.

It came out in 2011 so no surprise of the haters of this movie. But I loved it as a kid and always rewatched around halloween. I love it still to this day and it may not be the best animation film but it goes down in my book as a favorite from the 2000s.

The origin of this film would seems to be films of Tim Burton. The main character is a girl of high school age called Dixie. At the onset of the picture we see an early trauma in her life where mother, unhappy for a long time, informs her hubby that she is leaving him because she can no longer stand his work, he is an undertaker. Dad is the eternal optimist always upbeat always happy and always trying his best for the ones he loves. Dixie, like most teenagers, is beset with the problems of teenagers, fickle friends, unapproachable guys, and mean girls at school. After a particularly bad day at school Dad takes Dixie to the local fair to try and cheer her up, where the mean girls trick her into seeing her old best friend kissing the guy she longs for, this sends her running in a rain storm into the woods where a tree struck by lighting falls on her. She wakes up in a grave a Zombie in the world of the dead where she meets Isis and later Gonner. The three join together to open a portal back the land of the living where they can set right all that had gone wrong in their lives and at the same time thwart the evil plans of a zombie witch bent on entering the living world with her zombie army.

The CG is OK, but nothing special. The voice acting adequate and professional, but again nothing special. The story could do with some major rewrites. In the Zombie world thing pop up when needed, the story does not have the feel that if the characters were not there the place would not exist.

All and all not a bad film, not a film to seek out or a film to avoid, but a film to watch when nothing else is available to watch.