You should definitely watch the first movie before this sequel, but just to catch you up, the world has been destroyed by a zombie plague, and the few human survivors eke out a living on pilfered food and siphoned gas. They refer to the horrifying, new world as Zombieland, and in Zombieland, people give up their original names and refer to each other by their hometowns. This presumably works because there are so few survivors, roughly 1 per city, I guess. I wasn't impressed by the original "Zombieland" at first, but the movie grew on me, so I was looking forward to spending some more time with these crazy characters: the tough zombie-hunter Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), the neurotic, rule-obsessed survivalist Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), and the grifting sisters Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). By the end of “Zombieland,” they had formed the kind of unlikely family that is so likely in movies. “Zombieland: Double Tap” finds the crew still together 10 years later, in D.C., inhabiting the White House. Togetherness is starting to grate on these lone wolves, and they also face an increasingly dangerous world as the zombies evolve to become smarter, faster, and harder to kill.
The crew splits up, but... you guessed it, they are going to have to come back together in order to survive. Meanwhile, they meet some new survivors, including the dumb, pretty Madison (Zoey Deutch), the smart, pretty Nevada (Rosario Dawson), and a handful of others (including a cameo from Luke Wilson).
This is what Joe Bob Briggs would call a classic sequel, in that they basically remade the original movie. Anything you liked in the original is here, just amped up. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the mood light and the jokes coming. Like the original “Zombieland,” this is not in any way a serious zombie flick. It's just a rollicking good time and a good distraction from the actual end of the world.
3.5 stars out of 5
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