I must say that I wasn’t really a fan of the original film
but I wanted to give the sequel a chance since I liked the concept of the
overall film but didn’t care for the execution.
For me, Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) suffers from the same problems
that the original film does so only fans of the original will find enjoyment in
this film. In the original film
Zombieland (2009) director Ruben Fleischer crafts a funny and entertaining film
with characters that do questionable things just because it’s funny and not
because it makes any sense character wise or plot wise. For the most part, audiences didn’t care that
the plot of the film by the third act became more ludicrous and ridiculous to
the point of absurdity as long as it was funny but it ended up destroying the
strong female characters that needed to be saved by the dumber male characters whom
throughout the entire film were being duped by the female characters. This is a similar characteristic of the
sequel as a genuinely good story is sidelined for the joke and the laughs.
In this film our survivors Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita,
and Little Rock (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail
Breslin, respectfully) have been living the good life in the White House. The only problem is that Columbus wants to
marry Wichita and Little Rock needs some personal space between her and
Tallahassee, who acts like her father, so Wichita and Little Rock hit the road
in the middle of the night to make their own path in the world. Tallahasse and Columbus try to make a new
life for themselves without the girls until Wichita returns claiming that
Little Rock ditched her for a man Berkeley (Avan Jogia). Now the gang gets together for another cross
country trip in search of Little Rock to bring her back home. On their way they come across new and powerful
zombies as well as other new characters to pay out the run time of the film
which is virtually the exact same thing that happened in the original film.
A cross country trip with zombie madness and huge action
sequences will appease most fans of the franchise as it is obvious that
Fleischer got a bigger budget for this film but by the time the characters
reach the third act where they all come together again in a community of
non-violence where all weapons are melted down and it’s a party all the time
you wonder how anyone in this community ever survived the apocalypse due to
their stupidity. There is the now
required ludicrous zombie onslaught that occurs forcing the characters to be
clever and come up with a way to kill the zombies without weapons.
On the surface, the film is quite entertaining and sometimes
even funny (especially the scene where Tallahassee and Columbus meet their
doubles in Albuquerque and Flagstaff) but the overall film suffers from an
overall stupidity of characters doing dumb things just for the sake of the
joke. The action sequences are infinity
better than in the original film and the cast is exceptionally good with a
scene stealing performance by Rosario Dawson in the third act. You’ll never be bored watching this film
but it won’t leave an impression and if you think a little about it, everything
seems to fall apart like the corpse of a zombie.
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