Zombieland: Double Tap Movie Review
Set (and released) ten years after the original film, we find Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson, Natural Born Killers), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg, Now You See Me), and Wichita (Emma Stone, La La Land) searching for Little Rock (Abigail Breslin, Maggie) after she runs off with a hippie pacifist (Avan Jogia).In the years since the original Zombieland, the four have taken up residency in the White House, and the zombies have evolved--there are now Hawkings (smart zombies, named for Stephen Hawking), Ninjas (ones who sneak up on you), Homers (the ones so dumb they pose little threat and named in honor of Homer Simpson), and, as they find out later, T-800's, zombies that are practically indestructible and named in honor of The Terminator.
"A zombie that is hard to kill? Interesting..."
Much like the first movie, this one is filled with a nice combination of gore and laughs. Harrelson and Eisenberg are as wonderful as they were in the first movie, and Stone steps it up a bit more, bringing much more personality to her character this time around. Breslin is not in the movie as much as you would think she would be, and she is sort of replaced for much of the film by Madison (Zoey Deutch), a girl who Columbus gets with while Wichita briefly runs off--she tags along when Wichita returns. Deutch does a good job here, but my goodness, the character is so irritating you cheer for the zombies to kill her. The film features a particularly interesting gag no doubt lifted from Shaun of the Dead--Tallahassee and Columbus meet up with their doppelgangers, Albuquerque (Luke Wilson, Vacancy) and Flagstaff (Thomas Middleditch, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) respectively. Middleditch is especially good in this role, as he is almost a carbon copy of Eisenberg. Less impressive is Rosario Dawson as as Nevada, Tallahassee's would-be love interest. I am not a fan of Dawson to begin with, and her performance here did nothing to change my opinion of her. When we get to the final confrontation at the end, there is a lot of hit or miss with many of the characters we meet, but overall, this movie provides pretty much what we expected--a lot of laughs, a lot of blood, and an ending that wraps up everything nicely. Look for small references, wonder why Tallahassee has apparently overcome his Twinkie obsession, and hang tight for the credits to see a bit of a prequel to the first movie.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 7
Zombieland: Double Tap Movie Trailer
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