Zombieland 2: Double Tap - Review

Zombieland 2: Double Tap

After an entire decade after Zombieland became a hit film - cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited with director Ruben Fleischer (Venom) and the original writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool) to star in the sequel “Zombieland: Double Tap”.

The plot (if you want to call it a plot) find the makeshift family of uninfected hero-survivors still immersed in the zombie apocalypse trying to enjoy the little pleasures of life one day at a time. They have now moved to DC and are residing in what’s left of the White House where “Tallahassee” (Harrleson) has tricked out the entire White House grounds with zombie security measures. We also find the uber well-organized geeky “Columbus” (Eisenberg) and the dourer sardonic “Wichita” (Stone) are now a full-blown couple. But when he proposes marriage to her with the priceless blue “Hope Diamond” that he just found lying around, the idea of marriage to “Wichita” sends her and her sister “Little Rock” (Breslin) into "gotta-go and get the hell out of here mode". “Little Rock” is especially eager to go as she is no longer an adolescent. Rather she is a young woman now with a strong desire to meet someone to love for herself. She also has tired of “Tallahassee” (Harrelson) over Bearing father figure attitude towards her.

When “Columbus” wakes up the next day to find “Wichita” and “Little Rock” have left he convinces “Tallahassee” to take a road trip to help him find them for no less a reason than to keeping their ad hoc survivalist family together.

A cowboy and geek go on a road trip in the middle of a zombie apocalypse,…..what can go wrong?

REVIEW: Running 1:40 minutes “Zombieland 2: Double Tap” is a minuet dance of faster and smarter zombies, zombies who act like Arnold Schwarzenegger the Terminator T 800 (uuuh, one shot to head not going to do it), doppelgangers, an actor Colin Farrell look a like who is a pacifist, Elvis Presley obsessions, a blond bimbo who wear pinks all the time who hid out in a mall at a “Pinkberry” franchise of frozen pink desserts; who coincidentally pronounces every road sign she reads phonetically i.e. the town of “Babylon as  - “Baby Lon” and finally one humongous over sized monster truck from hell.

Its abundantly clear from the get-go there is no real discernible plot to have to concentrate on. But that did not keep me from laughing through out most of the entire film. And while the first “Zombieland” remains Director Fleischer’s best movie by a mile its sequel is still filled with witty sarcasm, glib dialogue and enough pop culture references to have kept me pleasantly entertained.  

See it now or rent it later, either way “Zombieland 2: Double Tap” is still worth your self-referential, dysfunctional family, funny, sometimes hilarious, bloody and always endearing time.

3.00 Stars