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This is a technically impressive piece. For the most part the CG backgrounds blend seamlessly with the actors. The entire film has been given the slightly faded appearance you might associate with film from the 1930s. There are a lot of good ideas with flying machines, robots, and a multitude of ideas taken from old movies. Its downfall is that there are too many ideas. What could have waited for a second or third movie to appear gets shoved into the first.

Although this film can be billed as a zombie movie they actually only appear incidentally in the film as part of a song and dance number. Most of the film consists of an unreasonable number of accidental deaths and the measures the family must take to hide this. If you like strange Japanese films (with songs) then this is definitely one for you.