I went to a new animated film today called The Night of the Zoopocalypse, and it was a good time.

It featured the voice acting by David Harbour and a bunch of people I have never heard of before. Gabbi Kosmidis voiced Gracie, a wolf, who meets up with David Harbour’s Dan, a mountain lion, after a meteor crashed in the zoo, unleashing a virus that turned the animals into zombie-like creatures.

One of my favorite characters was Xavier (Pierre Simpson), a lemur who would injure himself intentionally so he could spend the night in the zoo hospital, allowing him to watch movies on the TV. He would speak in meta manner throughout the film, while not necessarily breaking the fourth wall, comparing the events that happened to the animal survivors in movie terms. He was funny.

The animation was good, and the character design, especially of those animals that had been transformed by the virus. They were weird and yucky looking creatures that moved in original way. It offers a nice intro to the younger audience into the horror genre.

Sure the overall story was pretty typical, I found little about it that bothered me. The characters were likable enough and it had a nice message. David Harbour is always a plus. Based loosely on a Clive Barker short story called “ZOOmbies,” Night of the Zoopocalypse was an okay to spend a lazy, no-school Monday afternoon.

3.4 stars