By Darlene Donloe
Hollywood has a love affair
with zombies. There are movies (Dawn of
the Dead, World War Z) and even a hit television show about the walking
dead – actually called The Walking Dead.
A decade ago was director Ruben
Fleischer’s (Venom) 2009 hit film, Zombieland.
Up next is the campy sequel Zombieland:
Double Tap another sure to be a cult classic.
The returning cast includes
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin, who are, once
again survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Along for the ride is Rosario Dawson,
Luke Wilson and Zoey Deutch.
This time around the gang has
set up residence in the White House where they have made a happy home – safe from
the zombies.
But Little Rock’s (Breslin)
hormones are stirring and she desperately wants to meet someone. Of course, she
realizes her choices are limited, considering the world is full of zombies, but
she’s determined anyway.
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| (l-r) Zoey Deutch, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson |
Columbus (Eisenberg) proposes to Wichita (Stone), who is waffling toward not getting married. So she and her sister Little Rock set out on their own.
About that same time, while on
an outing at the mall, Tallahassee (Harrelson) and Columbus find Madison
(Deutch), who has been hiding in a freezer for who knows how long.
Columbus and Madison have sex
that same night – not knowing that Wichita is making her way back to the White
House because Little Rock decided to find her own way – so she steals the car
and heads out to first find Graceland. Graceland is but a shell of itself when
they arrive, so they move on. They find another music palace that is inhabited
by Nevada (Dawson). When a couple of friends Albuquerque (Luke Wilson) and
Flagstaff (Thomas Middleditch) turn into zombies, a full out brawl ensues.
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| Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, and Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland: Double Tap |
Then, along with a hippie named Berkeley (Avan Jogia), she takes off to find a place called Babylon, which is supposed to be a safe oasis.
This makeshift family is
falling apart at the seams.
To make things even more
chaotic, a new strain of zombie has emerged that is much more difficult to
kill.
Determined to make their family
whole again, Tallahassee, Columbus, and Wichita set out to find Little Rock.
Along the way, of course, they kill zombies.
Talk about a geography lesson!
Finally, they make it
Babylon. But to enter, they have to turn
in their guns which are immediately melted.
One night during a celebration, Babylon has fireworks that attract the
zombies. Without guns, they have to come
up with creative ways to kill them.
One of the funny through-line
jokes is how Columbus doesn’t like anything to do with clowns and how
Tallahassee only wants to travel in style, but repeatedly ends up driving a mom
van across the country.
Just like its predecessor, the movie is a madcap, campy romp through Zombieland.
There are some very funny
moments, some hilarious quips and some very gruesome moments. Thank goodness
Harrelson is in this movie. His comedic timing keeps it moving. As Tallahassee says: It's time to nut up or shut up!
On the DONLOE SCALE: D (don’t
bother), O (oh, no), N (needs work), L (likable), O (oh, yeah) and E
(excellent), Zombieland: Double Tap
gets an L (likable).
Rated R
Running time: 1h 39min
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