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Plants vs. Zombies 3: Alaskan Getaway is an American computer-animated action-comedy-adventure film, co-produced by DreamWorks Animation, Electronic Arts and PopCap Animation, and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (2019), the third installment in the Plants vs. Zombies film trilogy, and the fourth installment overall the film franchise. It is based both on Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia (the 2024 update of PvZ3) and Plants vs. Zombies Adventures. The film is directed by Joel Crawford, and co-directed by Brad Ableson (who also co-directed Illumination's Minions: The Rise of Gru), from a screenplay by Michael McCullers, and produced by Chris Meledandri. The film features an ensemble cast starring the returning voices from the first and second films including Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Faris, Ryan Reynolds, Andy Richter, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Buscemi, George Fan as the zombies, Billy Eichner, Ed O'Neill, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Rick Moranis, Jane Lynch, Owen Wilson, Josh Gad, Freddie Highmore, John C. Reilly, Alecia Moore (Pink), Jim Carrey, Alec Baldwin, Jason Lee, Bill Hader, J.K. Simmons, Vince Vaughn, Clancy Brown, Alan Tudyk, Will Forte, Paul Rudd, Nick Offerman, Nicolas Cage, Jonah Hill, Steve Carell, Ken Jeong, Terry Crews, Ludacris, Stephen Root, John Goodman, Willem Dafoe, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldaña, Josh Brolin, Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Stewart, with newcomers including Woody Harrelson, Jack Dylan Grazer, Millie Bobby Brown, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jack McBrayer, Danny McBride, Elizabeth Banks, Damon Wayans Jr., Ed Helms, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and John Cena, who replaces Bruce Willis in the role of Chard Guard. The film centers in Crazy Dave teaming up with his nephews Nate Timely and Patrice Blazing, his cousin Douglas Fir and the other neighbors he knows to survive a zombie apocalypse in Alaska and stop Dr. Zomboss with the help of the plants before he rules Earth and make people become zombies permanently, and eventually go to an all-out war with Zomboss' newest invention: Zombot Plague-inator and the biggest battle they've ever had.

The film was theatrically released on May 9, 2025 by DreamWorks Animation.

Plot/Synopsis[]

Five years after the events of the second film, Crazy Dave was watching the TV while eating his taco meal and drinking Diet Coke at his house, until the program was interrumpted by an urgent news about a zombie apocalypse chaos in Alaska caused by Dr. Zomboss, and Crazy Dave was very surprised about that! Then his cell phone rang and he picked up the call, and Burt told him through the cell phone about the zombie attack in the city of Juneau, Alaska. So Crazy Dave advertised the plants about the zombie attack in that city and they are going to reunite with his neighbors to form a survival team, they left home and went to look for his nephews to go to Neighborville Conservation Academy, where Dave also advertised this situation to his cousin Douglas Fir and the four returned to his neighborhood to tell Burt and Matilda that they need to form a survival team, which Dave called it the Neighborville Survival Team (NST), and to travel to Juneau, Alaska because he heard on the news that there was a zombie apocalypse in that city that was caused by nobody but the evil and infamous Dr. Zomboss, who invented the Zombie Virus, and they went in Douglas' RV to stop Zomboss and end this dangerous zombie apocalypse before it's too late and he can rule the Earth and turn people into zombies permanently.

In the post credits scene, Super Brainz tells Laser Bean, Kernel Corn, Citron and Rose that he will invade Neighborville alongside his minions, including Z-Mech, Foot Soldier, Engineer and many other zombies.

Cast[]

  • Dan Aykroyd as Crazy Dave, the deuteragonist of the film. He is the leader of the Neighborville Survival Team.
  • Woody Harrelson as Douglas Fir. He is Crazy Dave's cousin, a camper who loves nature and animals, and the co-leader of the Neighborville Survival Team. He also has the capacity of animal speech and spends all of his time at the Campground, where he regularly takes hikes and talks to his forest friends, which are animals. He works at the Neighborville Conservation Academy.
  • Jack Dylan Grazer as Nate Timely. He is the nephew of Crazy Dave.
  • Millie Bobby Brown as Patrice Blazing. She is the niece of Crazy Dave.
  • Bryce Dallas Howard as Matilda. She is one of Crazy Dave's neighbors. She is a gardener and a member of the Neighborhood Survival Team.
  • Jack McBrayer as Burt. He is one of Crazy Dave's neighbors. He is an engineer and a member of the Neighborhood Survival Team.
  • Steve Buscemi as Dr. Zomboss. He is the main antagonist of the film and the leader of the Zombies. He wants to summon all of the zombies in Juneau, Alaska and order them to attack people and infect them with his evil invention: the Zombie Virus, which turns people into zombies, so Zomboss can rule the world for once and for all.
  • Danny McBride as Officer Ron. He is one of the cops of Suburbia.

Plants[]

Zombies[]

Cameo roles[]

Evil Dave (from the chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2) and Brave Dave (from PvZ Social Edition), who are Crazy Dave's brothers, appear in a non-speaking cameo in the Neighborville Conservation Academy. Later, Brave Dave does speak in another cameo near the ending of the film when he congratulates his brother Crazy Dave for saving the world from the Zombie Virus infection and defeating Dr. Zomboss once again, and he is voiced by John DiMaggio. In the post credits scene, Super Brainz from Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 and Plants vs, Zombies Heroes is voiced by Roger Craig Smith in an uncredited cameo (as a stand-in for Henry Cavill in the fourth film), Laser Bean is voiced by Ross Marquand (he previously voiced Laser Bean in the Plants vs. Zombies TV Series), and Z-Mech is voiced by Eric Bauza in another uncredited cameo as a stand-in for the upcoming fourth and final film based on Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. Also, Kernel Corn, Citron and Rose make silent cameos in that scene.

Release[]

The film was theatrically released in USA (general) on May 9, 2025. It had its special premiere in Alaska on April 25, 2025, and on Indianapolis on May 4, 2025.

Marketing[]

  • The teaser poster of the film, with the original title (Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Alaska) and original release date (November 8, 2024), was revealed in social media on December 26, 2023. It just shows an Alaskan afternoon landscape with the glaciers. On April 4, 2024, the teaser poster was published again with the final title (Plants vs. Zombies 3: Alaskan Getaway) and second scheduled date release (March 21, 2025).
  • The film's teaser trailer, along with its first official poster, were released on July 3, 2024, and was uploaded to DreamWorks' official YouTube channel the same date. The teaser trailer was shown during the theatrical releases of Despicable Me 4 and Deadpool & Wolverine.
    • The first teaser trailer shows up Crazy Dave, his nephews Nate and Patrice, and his cousin Douglas Fir at the film's auditions, positioning for a group photo. Before taking the photo, the main plants, Peashooter, Sunflower, Wall-nut, Chomper and Cactus, come to take the group photo with them, then five of the plants from PvZ Adventures, Sweet Pea, Chilly Pepper, Shamrock, Beet and Aspearagus, come to take the photo. And later, the rest of the plants that appeared in the previous two films come to take the photo. Before the photographer (voiced by George Fan, the creator of Plants vs. Zombies) takes the picture, says them to say Brains, revealing that the photographer is a Paparazzi Zombie, and leaving the plants and the neighbors confused, he corrects himself to say Whiskey. Then an imp zombie (voiced by Jonah Hill) appears in front of all the plants and says Whiskey, and the Paparazzi took the photo. After the group photo is taken, all the plants and neighbors screamed and ran in fear around the stage and went away, leaving the imp zombie alone and breaks the fourth wall, saying to the audience "Why? Do I look ugly? Do I have bad breath? They all must have been calm!". Then the film's title is revealed by falling down to the floor, making the imp scream and run away from the stage.
  • The second teaser trailer was released on September 20, 2024, and it was promoted in front of screenings of Transformers One, The Wild Robot, Wicked and Moana 2.
    • The trailer just shows the part of the movie, where Crazy Dave and the plants leave the house to go looking for his nephews Nate and Patrice Blazing at school, and his cousin Douglas Fir at the Neighborville Conservation Academy, and they finally go to Alaska.
  • The theatrical trailer was released on December 20, 2024, and it was promoted in front of screenings of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Mufasa: The Lion King, Dog Man and Captain America: Brave New World.
  • The final trailer was released on March 20, 2025 and it was promoted during the premiere of Snow White, A Minecraft Movie and Thunderbolts*.
  • "Sweet 16", the official celebration video of Plants vs. Zombies YouTube Channel (originally uploaded on May 3, 2025), was showcased after the previews and before the feature presentation to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Plants vs. Zombies game franchise.

Home media[]

Plants vs. Zombies 3: Alaskan Getaway was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for digital download on July 4, 2025, and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on August 5, 2025. The DVD/Blu-ray releases include a short film entitled "Nature Life with Douglas Fir and his Animal Friends", will show up Douglas Fir doing his everyday activities at the Neighborville Conservation Academy and two music videos ("Hypnodancer" and "Flowers Behind You"). The film is available on HBO Max since July 4, 2025.

Soundtrack[]

The soundtrack for the film was composed by Michael Giacchino, replacing Hans Zimmer from the first two films. It was released on April 22, 2025.

Original Soundtrack[]

  • What a Beautiful Day!
  • Nate and Patrice Blazing
  • Dr. Zomboss is Back
  • Neighborville Survival Team
  • Welcome to Alaska
  • Coffee Afternoon
  • Goodnight
  • Zomboss orders his Minions to Go to Alaska
  • Good Morning
  • Braincicle
  • The Ice Zombies Arrive/First Battle
  • Failed Battle/Nate and Patrice's Argument
  • It's Ice Cream Time!
  • Douglas Tells a Story
  • Zomboss' Plague-inator Project
  • Crazy Dave's Nightmare
  • Ready for Expedition
  • Zombie Surprise
  • Escape to the City
  • NST Saves the City
  • Team Dinner
  • Zomboss Confirms His Presence
  • Neighbors Unite!
  • One Last Battle with the Ice Zombies
  • Zomboss is now Defeated Once Again!
  • Congratulating NST
  • Goodbye Alaska

Music[]

  • Take on Me - a-ha (Crazy Dave and his neighbors travelling to Alaska)
  • Under Pressure - Queen (feat. David Bowie)
  • Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
  • Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root (Crazy Dave and his neighbors exploring Alaska)
  • Hypnodancer - Little Big (Disco Zombie's theme song)
  • Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (Plants and neighbors training for the final battle)
  • Master of the Puppets - Metallica (Final battle with Zombot Plague-inator)
  • Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (Plants and neighbors celebrating their victory)
  • Flowers Behind You (За Тобой Цветы) - JF Voice (First part of the end credits)

Production[]

On November 1, 2019, four months and four days after the premiere of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, DreamWorks Animation officially confirmed that there was going to be a third Plants vs. Zombies film scheduled for a spring 2022 release, bringing the film series to be a trilogy. Five months later, on April 2020, the production was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some time later after the pandemic, on February 23, 2022, DreamWorks Animation confirmed that the production was officially restored and the filmmakers started producing the film, and the film's title was Plants vs. Zombies 3. On March 9, 2022, it was confirmed that Joel Crawford will be the director of the film, Mark Swift will be the producer, Phil Lord and Chris Miller will return as the screenplayers, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger will return as the story writers, and Christopher Knights will be the editor. The next month, it was confirmed that the film is scheduled for a spring 2024 release. On August 2022, the writers had been started writing the full transcript for the film and brainstorming ideas for it. The idea was originally planned as a Zombie Virus infection in the middle of Suburbia, the city where Crazy Dave lives, who needs to team up with his best friend Harvey Flaxcaster, his neighbors and his nephews to survive the apocalypse and save the world from the zombies, but the producers didn't want to repeat the story in the same place, so they decided to choose another place where the main plot would occur. The planned potential countries were Australia, Russia, China, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Tibet, Canada and Iceland, until Alaska, one of the states from the USA, was definitely chosen as the main place for the plot. The creators liked the idea, and feeled it original and never-before-seen in the game franchise. Some time later, near the end of 2022, DreamWorks Animation announced that Jack Dylan Grazer and Millie Bobby Brown, and Ghostbusters co-star Bill Murray had joined the cast of the film, while Dan Aykroyd and Steve Buscemi revealed the story, which follows Crazy Dave teaming up with his nephews Nate Timely and Patrice Blazing, his best friend and the other neighbors he knows to survive a zombie apocalypse in Alaska and they must stop Dr. Zomboss with the help of the plants before he rules Earth and make people become zombies permanently, and eventually go to an all-out war and the biggest battle they've ever had. On February 2023, it was confirmed that Bryce Dallas Howard, Jack McBrayer and Danny McBride had joined the cast. A day after this announcement, DreamWorks Animation changed the title's film to Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Alaska.

On March 6, 2023, Harvey Flaxcaster was definitely scrapped from the film and was replaced by Crazy Dave's cousin Douglas Fir from the 2024 update of Plants vs. Zombies 3 (also known as Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia) that came on January 17 of the next year, so Crazy Dave and Douglas would make a better team with the other neighbors rather than Harvey. This resulted that the filmmakers had to force Bill Murray to leave the film's cast so they could hire another actor for the voice role of Douglas Fir, and Woody Harrelson was chosen for the role of Douglas Fir. Additionally, this resulted the writers to erase Harvey's dialogue from the final transcript and replace them by Douglas'.

On March 15, 2023, Michael Giacchino was confirmed to compose the score for Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Alaska, replacing Hans Zimmer from the first two films. On May 5, 2023, it was confirmed that John Cena had joined the cast to replace the now retired Bruce Willis as the voice of Chard Guard from Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. A day later, Cena confirmed that he decided to take Bruce Willis' place because he had revealed on April of last year that Willis had been retired from acting due to health problems. On July 18, 2023, it was confirmed that Elizabeth Banks, Damon Wayans Jr, Ed Helms, Chris Evans and Christopher Mintz-Plasse had joined the cast, and some of the cast from the first and second film are possibly going to reprise their respective roles.

On August 14, 2023, it was confirmed that Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Alaska was officially scheduled to release in the United States on November 8, 2024, while the filmmakers are almost finishing the storyboards, character models, animation and the dialogue for the film. Later, on the first day of December it was confirmed that the cast from the previous films are going to reprise their respective voice roles. From the first film cast, Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Brolin, Will Forte, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Mark Hamill and Sir Patrick Stewart are going to reprise their roles as Ice-shroom, Doom-shroom, Gatling Pea, Scaredy-shroom, Pole Vaulter Zombie, Pogo Zombie, Ladder Zombie and Cob Cannon respectively. From the second film cast, Steve Carell, Ken Jeong, Stephen Root, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, Ludacris and many others are going to reprise their respective roles. Also, George Fan is going to reprise his voice role as Zombie Bobsled Team from the first film. In 2024, the film's title was changed to "Plants vs. Zombies 3: Alaskan Getaway". On March 2024, DreamWorks Animation announced that the cast started recording the dialogues for their characters, and Chris Meledandri, founder and CEO of Illumination, rescheduled the film to March 21, 2025 due to the problems with the film's plot. On June, the movie was later rescheduled to May 9 of the same year to avoid competition with Disney's Snow White (Live Action remake). The film was officially completed on December 2024.

Future[]

Sequel[]

Shortly after the theatrical release of this film, it was revealed that a fourth and final film that will be based on Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the shooter game from the Plants vs. Zombies game franchise, is in development. In recent interviews, Brad Pitt, the voice actor of Laser Bean in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, talks about reprising his role as the Laser Bean in the next PvZ film. On August 30, 2025, it is confirmed that the film is scheduled to be released on May 31, 2030, making it one of the first DreamWorks films to be released in the 2030s decade, and one of the first overall animated films to be released in the 2030s. Additionally, the cast was officially confirmed: the returning voices of the main characters from previous films, with newcomers including Henry Cavill (who replaces Roger Craig Smith) as the voice of Superbrainz, and three cast members from Transformers One including Chris Hemsworth as the voice of Kernel Corn, Bryan Tyree Henry as the voice of Citron, and Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Rose.

Spin-off films[]

A second spin-off film about Crazy Dave is in early development. It is officially scheduled to be released on June 9, 2028. In an interview, Dan Aykroyd, the voice actor of Crazy Dave, doubts whether he will reprise his role as him in future productions or not, but acclaims he is sure that he will be the narrator of the upcoming spin-off film. The movie's plot will focus on the life of a younger Crazy Dave and his career as both a gardener and a scientist. Another spin-off film, about Dr. Zomboss, is also in development, and it is officially scheduled to be released on June 8, 2029. Its plot will focus on a scientist named Edgar George Zombinsky, who is obsessed with necrotechnology and brain manipulation. In September 2025, their official titles were confirmed, and they'll be called "Dave: The Crazy Origin of a Gardener" and "Brainiac Maniac: The Rise of Dr. Zomboss", respectively.

Trivia (production)[]

  • The third film began production after the release of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. It was scheduled for release in spring 2023. On March 31, 2020, the third film was temporarily cancelled after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was unknown if the film would based on the Alpha or Beta updates of Plants vs. Zombies 3, the third installment of the videogame main series that is currently unavailable in some countries. Later, in 2022, the production was officially restored, with the prototype title of "Plants vs. Zombies 3".
  • The film's production title was "Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Alaska". It was changed to "Alaskan Getaway" in 2024.
    • Also, this production title was a reference to that of the 2024 update of the Plants vs. Zombies 3 videogame, which is "Welcome to Zomburbia".
  • The film was originally confirmed to be released on November 8, 2024, but it was rescheduled to March 21, 2025 for unknown reasons. On June 2024, it was rescheduled again to be premiered one month, two weeks and four days later on May 9, 2025 to avoid competition with Disney's Snow White (Live action).

Trivia[]

  • This is the fourth DreamWorks Animation film directed by Joel Crawford, after The Croods: A New Age, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Legend of the Shadows: A Plants vs. Zombies Story.
  • This is the second time that Kevin Durand voices the Hurrikale. The first time was in Legend of the Shadow Plants, the first spin-off film of the Plants vs. Zombies film franchise.
  • Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson previously appeared in Free Birds.
  • Originally, the VIP plants from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures were going to appear. They were ultimately scrapped from the film, except for Sweet Pea since she had appeared in the previous film as a cameo in the mid-credits scene.
  • This is the first main Plants vs. Zombies film to not have a narrator.
  • This film is based on Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia (the 2024 update of PvZ3) and Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
  • This is the second DreamWorks animated film to have the "Eye of the Tiger" song after Turbo in 2013.
  • Dr. Zomboss' all-new creation Zombot Plague-inator is appearently an homage to Dr. Doofenschmirtz's creations (which some of its names end with "inator") in Phineas and Ferb.
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