Zack The Movie: The Vengeance of Derek

**Zack The Movie: The Vengeance Of Derek** is a 2019 American adult animated action-adventure war drama film written and directed by The FunEditor4, and is the first film based on the obscure Zack Gets Grounded series from an unnamed creator. It is the first-ever film to be distributed by Harmonic Entertainment Inc. (then known as Fredbear Studios).

## Plot

The film opens at night, when Zack has a dream of reuniting with his girlfriend and getting rejected. Kimberly, who already changed from being abusive like Diesel, advised Zack to look ahead instead of looking back. She also warned him that the consequences of looking back would reflect very badly on him and on everyone in GoAnimate City.

he next morning, just after classes at the GoAnimate Community College were dismissed, the news reported that Dora Marquez destroyed a barn near the mountains. Zack and Zara went home and find out that Kim, one of Zara's friends, has been poisoned to the point where she was bleeding everywhere. Zack, after receiving a letter by an anonymous person, speaks with Zara personally. They reflect on the recent incidents that have occurred in GoAnimate City, California and those that happened outside. Because of their assumptions, the two decide to go on a hunt without any help from Diesel or Kimberly,

Denise and Bob escort Zack and Zara in aid of their objective. They travel down to Old GoAnimate City California, a city that was destroyed during the Vietnam War. They scout into one of the buildings, which was said to be the last known position of Derek and the others. Unfortunately, they could not be found. Derek did give Zack and the others a clue of where they are. They travel down the abandoned city to find a factory.C

As Zack and Zara travel into the factory, they find out that a batch of clones were being created by a criminal, yet innocent, scientist named Dr. Vero. A cloning machine of unknown origin was used to do so. The two continue their objective only to get abducted by Derek Watson and Shakira Orono Holmes. Zack finds out, after seeing the death of a deformed clone, that Derek was responsible for the barn destruction and Kim Organa's poisoning. Derek unveils his sinister plan to Zack and Zara: to kill any citizen in GoAnimate City. The evil couple locks up Zack and Zara, along with Doctor Vero (who was shot by Derek for questioning his motives with the clones) in the television room so they would watch the plans unfold. Claude Flute was told to remain and watch the prisoners. Zack comes to realize that what Kimberly said was right, that he should not have looked back And Zack & Kelly Sing (Love Led Us Here) and Zack Gives up after the song ends.

Claude rescues Zack, Zara, and Doctor Vero. Josh, Mark, and Paul have transported far to save Zack and Zara, even though they were a little late. The crew rescues Kelly with major success. Zack and Josh destroy the cloning machine before catching up with the rest of the crew. But even then, they knew they were too late...the massacre began. Derek and the entire army began their attack, killing 257 people. The gang arrives at the hospital, where they take Dr. Vero to for surgery. Zack decides to form a resistance against the opponent. His fate is unknown at this time. The police arrive to pin down Derek and the others. They get ambushed by snipers and torpedo shooters. Alan arrives with the rest of the squad to scatter the police like roaches.

Before Derek would commence the execution of one of the police officers to demonstrate his mercilessness, Zack surprises them with a couple of clones getting shot. Denise reveals that she banished Derek...all because of what he has done over the months. Denise tells Derek to kill her, as everything that happened was her fault, but Zack tells her to scatter. Zack knew from the beginning that he is the one Derek was after, and so he throws his gun down and allows his death to happen. However, it turned out to be a set up, since Josh formed a shield around him. Josh, Mark, Claude, and Paul arrive at the scene with familiar faces (Jock Sanderz, Fluttergirl, Princess Matilda, Allison, Brian (luccieighteen), Jacob, Eddie, and Zola (adamkleinscmidt2003). The resistance has been born because of this. The battle commences.

Zack and Derek engage in another personal battle that leads all the way to the GoAnimate Activities Center. Josh and the resistance engage in a fight against the rest of the army (led by Gecko and Alda Ferrald) to buy citizens time to evacuate or find shelter. Zara catches Shakira attempting to back up Derek's army, and they battle to the death with chainsaws. Denise and Bob, along with Brian and Allison, get captured while mourning the dead and taking cover, but are rescued by Diesel and Kimberly (both of whom are in their assassins clothes).

Zack gets defeated by Derek, with the latter being forced to engage with Zack's karate teacher. Zack then gets up and beats up Derek using karate skills he has remembered out of the blue. Despite being temporarily apprehended, the fight went on. Shakira reveals to Zara, while in duel, that she is pregnant with a child. Zack and Derek accidentally blow up one of the floors inside the building with a bomb and a grenade, which turns the battle into a fight to the death. Jacob gets killed in battle, but Gecko and Alda decide to commit to their plan and give commands to the Zara clone, giving the resistance a chance to bring them down....temporarily. Backup forces from the destroyed base arrive to bring down the resistance. Shakira tells Zara that Derek's motive that he wanted to kill everyone in the city to make way for the baby. Following a brief baseball-esque match and a couple scuffles, Zara gets defeated by Shakira because of a knife that was covered with suxamethonium chloride.

The resistance gets ambushed by a couple of torpedo shooters. Fluttergirl forms a shield to protect her friends from the clones, giving them time to find ways to stop the army once and for all. Josh fully realizes the weakness of the clones: water. It was said that water could turn clones into stone once water hits any part of their body. A clone goes through the shield, leaving only Princess Matilda and Fluttergirl to prepare their attack while Josh and the rest chase the fake Josh clone. The Josh clone turns into stone after Matilda got the hose on the firetruck ready. But Shakira rammed into a car, resulting to an explosion that knocked Fluttergirl to the ground, Josh and the others surrender despite their best efforts to protect themselves, Princess Matilda and Fluttergirl attempt to escape. Shakira catches them and tells them to surrender. Zara tells the duo to run. Shakira shoots Princess Matilda in the back, to Fluttergirl's horror. The two ultimately surrender after Fluttergirl was threatened.

Zack and Derek continue their fight all the way to the top of the building. Denise and Bob arrive and turn the clones into stone and soak Shakira, Gecko, and Alda Ferrald. The assassins and the police take down the clones and kill Gecko. Alda Ferrald and Alan get arrested for their crimes. Shakira didn't give up though, as she cheesed her way back to the truck and tried to ram into everyone. Fluttergirl flies away to the top of the building to try an save Matilda. It never worked out in the end...Princess Matilda dies in Flutter's arms after saying their last words, setting her off. Josh, Mark, and Paul buy most of the resistance time to escape and they engage in a Truck vs. Car pursuit, which ruined the evacuation. The police arrive in a desperate manuver to stop Shakira, but the power of the truck has knocked them off the pursuit. While the chase continues down to Regency road, Zack and Derek's fight continues at the scene. Zack propels Derek all the way to his childhood home, and Fluttergirl unleashes her full power to end the pursuit. The truck crashes into an Elementary School. However, Shakira has jumped out of the truck before it happened.

Zack searches his home to find Derek, who has somehow survived the crash. Derek surprises Zack with a gunshot on the thigh. Zack lies on the same place where his mother died. Derek mentally tortures him with his personal life and tries to kill him. Denise jumps in to stop her own brother but is forced to fight Shakira off-screen. Furious about his reputation being ruined by Zack in the past, Derek attempts to assassinate him once and for all, but Kimberly jumps in front of him and stabs Derek in the abdomen. Zack puts Derek at shame for all the things that he has done, with the latter responding to how regretful he is. The police arrive in time and they tell Derek to surrender. Instead of agreeing to take another chance, Derek quotes off a poem he read and shoves the knife through his own stomach, killing him and ending the era of one of the more notable bullies at Comp School and one of the biggest terrorists of GoAnimate City. Shakira was eventually arrested, since she would be more than likely to get shot by the police. Kimberly Reverend, a once abusive mom turned into a decent human being, succumbs to her gunshot wound and dies in front of Zack, Zara, and Diesel. The resistance has won their victory against Derek's army, though it felt hollow.

A few days later, Zack and the others joined the GoAnimate Church funeral walk. Everyone who fought galiantly and lost their lives in the massacre was all buried at the Walter Jameson Cemetary, where Zack's biological parents were buried at. Denise comforts and speaks with Zack before departing the USA for a visit to London. Josh, Mark, Paul, and Kim have pitched a donation program, which Zack calls it "The Reverend Project," to help rebuild and repopulate GoAnimate City.

Later that night, Zack and Kelly reunite as a couple, and they glance at GoAnimate City as the spotlights wander around the place...GoAnimate City has been reborn.

## Production

The script was written even before The FunEditor4 ever came back to GoAnimate/Vyond in 2017. It started off as a ten-page transcript inspired by his ideas. It took him a total of two years to figure where things would go before shooting began in March 2019.

Sometime in June 2019, during production on the sixth part, The FunEditor4 decided to completely rename the project into something more "edgy" because of how similar the original title is to one of the original Zack episodes from 2012. He left his voters to decide on the three new titles, "The Vengeance Of Derek", "The War For Justice", or "Spark Of The Madness." "The Vengeance Of Derek" became the most voted new title of the three. The Vengeance Of Derek's title was created in homage to one of the original titles for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, "Star Trek II: The Vengeance Of Khan." That film's title had to be altered to avoid confusion with the one for Return Of The Jedi (1983), which was titled "Revenge Of The Jedi" at the time. This film's title has proven itself fit since Star Trek II and 2005's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith became two of the movie's main inspirations.

Fredbear Studios Worked Along With Walt Disney Pictures and casted Actors (Matthew Broderick, The Lion King) (Danny Glover, Saw, Predator 2) (F. Murray Abraham, Thirteen Ghosts)

Production stalled for a week when FunEditor got framed by somebody over a fake post. The overall situation left him devastated to the point of no recovery. His vision of the film was even scrambled to the point where he lost his motivation. The film was originally going to be a mini-series, but given there was little much to be told for it, FE4 decided to put it together as a feature-length film. The failure of the original cut for part 8 in September 2019 and the success of the first trailer convinced him to do so. And so, several rewrites and reshoots had to take place for the next three months.

On November 26, 2019, hours before The Vengeance Of Derek was going to make its initial premiere, GlideFan, co-president of Fredbear Studios, was impressed by the project and asked The FunEditor4 on Discord if he can distribute it under their company. He agreed since it was time to have such a company like FBS to shine.

The final trailer for the movie released on November 22, 2019 to commemorate the release of Canadian Scout's Brittany.

The FunEditor4 released deleted scenes from the movie onto YouTube a month after its reupload.

March 2020 became a travesty for the FunEditor4, since his graphics computer's hard drive crashed. All the alternate takes and deleted scenes he made at the time of production are gone. It is confirmed, however, that Canadian Scout had evidence of photos from the initial premiere. The FunEditor4 would go on to describe the overall production of the film to be "a nightmare" on his part.

## Reception

The initial premiere garnered the most attendees compared to the past content FunEditor premiered in 2019, with 145+ people. Zack The Movie: The Vengeance Of Derek has garnered positive reviews from grounded video creators, some of the non-grounded video creators (ex. KevinFanAnimations), and the people from Fredbear Studios. Cookielover559 Animations even stated that it was a much better movie than Isaac Anderson's Caillou Gets Grounded movie.

Casual viewers, on the flip side, have differing opinions. The editing and animation were praised altogether. The film's overall goal to conclude the Zack series and everything created prior and after was also appreciated. All the effort FunEditor has put in this movie has been heavily applauded. People who have seen the film, like SplashyTrash280, did not quite understand the film's context, given that they have not seen the series. MegaTeam, a non-GoAnimator, gave it a "to-the-point" negative review on GA Central, saying it has so much filler in it. Very few of the people on GA Central even prefer Canadian Scout's Brittany.

The film was re-uploaded a week later with a cut that was a tad shorter and has been receiving further acclaim from those who first viewed it. Those who have seen it approved of the new changes. As of April 20, 2020, the movie has reached over 50,000 views and over 500 likes, becoming a huge success for Fredbear Studios.

The original Zack creator praised this movie for the effort in tying everything together and bringing in a satisfying conclusion to what he began as a mini-series in 2011. He did view it to be corny in some places though.