MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Delivers a Sequel We Didn’t Know We Wanted or Needed
Zombieland: Double Tap, the ten-years-in-the-making, five-years-too-late sequel to the fondly, if vaguely, remembered, R-rated horror-comedy, Zombieland. A modest commercial hit in 2009, Zombieland, probably wouldn’t fit most moviegoers’ idea of essential cinema, but sometimes essential — and everything it suggests — can be overrated, especially when escapist, diverting, diversionary pleasures are needed to cope with a system teetering on the brink of constitutional crisis and economic collapse. To call Zombieland: Double Tap exactly what an overactive, over-tried brain addicted to social media and obsessed with news from our nation’s capital needs for a mental break isn’t an over-statement, it’s closer to the truth, however subjective. And for 93, casually efficient minutes, Zombieland: Double Tap delivers a steady, if not exactly heady, mix of meta-jokes, callbacks, nostalgia hits, and shedloads of CGI-aided, slow-motion ultra-gore into one semi-glorious, ultimately ephemeral high.
When we catch up with Zombieland’s central quartet, Columbus (Oscar-nominated Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Oscar-nominated Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Oscar-winner Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Oscar-nominated Abigail Breslin), they’re living in relatively tranquil domesticity in the recently abandoned White House. They have everything anyone could have asked for in a…
