Once again, Eisenberg’s voiceover leads the way through a zany story, meticulously explaining the new types of zombies, occasionally veering off into tangents where we see more gruesome zombie kills as well as animated texts popping up around characters to show Columbus’ still-growing list of rules. He doubles down on squeezing in even more zombie kills even as he lays off using slow motion as often outside the opening credits.
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Speaking of which, if you haven’t seen “Zombieland” lately and want to see “Double Tap,” the new movie is full of fan service nods to the original (including the sequel’s title and Columbus’ love for both Code Red Mountain Dew and the girl in Apartment 406) throughout the sequel.Īlso Read: 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' to Lead Box Office as 'Zombieland 2' Battles 'Joker' for Second Placeĭirector Ruben Fleischer (“Venom”) returns to guide the sequel to his 2009 movie for yet another zippy and silly whirlwind road trip. Perhaps not everyone outside the main group is on board with Tallahassee’s violent version of dealing with life and zombies, which seemed to go on unchallenged in the first film. In this new movie, the world of Zombieland feels much more expansive and less isolated. Like its predecessor, “Zombieland: Double Tap” has a bit of mean streak and a fondness for gross humor, especially where zombies are concerned. Being that there’s danger in every corner of Zombieland, whether it’s a pacifist musician (Avan Jogia from “Now Apocalypse,” as Berkeley) who doesn’t believe in killing zombies or running into an almost complete copy of yourself, it’s not long before Columbus’ old rules for zombie apocalypse survival come in handy. Wichita and Little Rock run off again - it’s one of several callbacks to 2009’s “Zombieland” - leaving the guys to deal with a half-empty household. Watch Video: 'Zombieland: Double Tap' Red Band Trailer Brings Bill Murray Back From the Dead Since then, her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) is little no longer and has started to resent the couple’s relationship and their ragtag family’s de facto patriarch, the trigger-happy Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson). Remarkably, all four members of the original gang are back for another round: The neurotic and bookish Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is much less of a lonely college boy thanks to his relationship with Wichita (Emma Stone), who’s still as flighty and moody as when she was first introduced a decade ago. Their adventures take on delicious new turns but never stray too far from the original idea of what it means to be a family when most of humanity has turned into brain-eating corpses.
They either make you miss what made the first movie so fun or memorable, or, at worst, make you question why you liked that original film in the first place.įortunately, “Zombieland: Double Tap” dodges many of the signs of sequel fatigue by acknowledging the ten-year gap between movies and developing the characters from where they started. Most unexpected sequels - the kinds of movies you see a trailer of in theaters and ask your seatmate, “Did that really need a sequel?” - are usually watered-down retreads of the original movie.