(CCR Original Content) Zombieland 2: Double Tap Review [Spoiler Free Review and Spoiler Review below picture] (6/10)
Zombieland 2: Double Tap is a 2019 zombie/comedy movie directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and David Callaham. The movie was produced by Gavin Polone and Columbia Pictures, Pariah, and 2.0 Entertainment and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film stars actors Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.
Survivors Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) have become experts in all things zombies in the 10 years they have been together as a group. Abiding by Columbus' rules they have become experts in identifying and disposing of various zombies and really good at surviving the apocalypse. However specific pressures of this make shift family cause the girls to turn their backs on the guys for the open road. When Wichita returns to get their help finding her sister they must travel through the heartland of Zombieland where the danger is greater as a new kind of zombie is evolving. One that is faster, stronger and more aggressive.
I enjoyed the beginning of the movie, just like the trailer of them whooping lots of zombie ass in front of the White House. That's when I noticed that it was starting to recycle the plot of the first movie with them house shopping for a new place to live and the girls leaving them only to need to be rescued. The movie isn't all bad and there are a couple of solid laughs but some of the comedy seems to fall a little flat and the same average zombie clichés or tropes work their way back in. I agree with some critics who said that for a sequel that was 10 years in the making it kind of felt like it was rushed together. But I have been seeing a lot of zombie movies lately and I got to say that this was still an above average movie and pretty entertaining, also I'm pretty sure it's the only big budget zombie movie in theaters right now. I give this movie a 6/10.
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This movie was pretty entertaining when I saw it in theaters but I was more than a little disappointed in the movie as a whole, especially when it was 10 years in the making, and because of how much I loved the original movie. As I mentioned above this movie started off strong with the introduction about how the zombies were changing or evolving. The 3 types were: Homers, which were so dumb they were almost not a threat, Hawkings, which were smarter than the average zombie, and Ninjas, which are the silent and stealthy types. The whole montage of them whooping zombie ass on the lawn of the White House was awesome too. The movie was going smooth to be but I didn't like how the plot felt recycled because of the girls leaving them and stealing their car just like the first one. I can see a lot of people being annoyed with the dumb blonde character Madison, but to me her scenes were generally pretty funny and I couldn't help but bust out laughing with that seat belt scene. The one character that I never really liked in the movie was Avan Jogia's character Berkeley. He was just a plot device that got the story moving and never really did anything except be a pacifist hippie who played the guitar and the love interest for Little Rock. She totally winds up stealing the car from Wichita and leaving her stranded. A lot of the movie I think probably sounded better on paper then it wound up coming out in the film. Like for example the new type of zombie called the T-800's (after the terminator) were tougher to kill, they showed how it dodge bullets like Neo from Matrix and even took a lot of bullets and kept on going until it had it's head smashed in. But the movie lost at lot of those good things along the way. The Homers come out again in a few scenes, they mention a Hawking but it didn't really do anything special, and they never showed a ninja. Also the T-800's who were so un-killable earlier are shown to be easily killable later. When the gang is at the hippie strong hold Babylon, which in itself is ridiculous, they do a plan to take out the horde of T-800's coming their way. There is a part where they are being swarmed by them and they have no weapons other than melee ones and are easily killing all the T-800s around them. Yeah the whole hippie stronghold place was a big stretch for me too. I mean it had walls to protected them and rules for new people like no guns (which they confiscate and melt), but there's no way they could be there for 10 years with no weapons surviving in the zombie apocalypse. Just like the character Madison surviving in the mall living in a freezer in Pinkberry for 10 years. It's just a lot of the logic went out the window. But still it was an above average zombie movie and that's why I give it a 6/10.