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'Zombies 3' makes it hard to get fired up for a sequel that feels dead on arrival

Kyra Tantao, Matt Cornett and Terry Hu play newly arrived aliens in 'Zombies 3' on Disney+.

Bypassing Disney Channel and heading directly to Disney+, the story reassembles the usual suspects, in a town that has grown from humans and zombies coexisting to include werewolves and now, in a particularly weak flourish, aliens.

Adding a blink-and-you'll-miss-it environmental message to the package, the aliens have come to Earth seeking a new home, with ecological disaster having destroyed their world.

Bypassing Disney Channel and heading directly to Disney+, the story reassembles the usual suspects, in a town that has grown from humans and zombies coexisting to include werewolves and now