It doesn’t have much on its mind, but it isn’t completely brain-dead either. “Zombieland: Double Tap” sets the bar low and steps easily over it, which makes it better than a lot of recent big-screen comedies. Zombieland: Double Tap Leaves the Ending Open For a Sequel Ten years of surviving in Zombieland have made Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock pretty adept at surviving, and after a massive final zombie fight they all make it out alive - this time with Rosario Dawson's Nevada as part of the group as well. But the zombie gore and the verbal pepper is sprayed quickly enough to keep boredom at bay. Other satirical targets - Elvis, hippies - are about as fresh. Madison is blond and not very smart, and Deutch brings remarkable energy and wit to a dreary stereotype. They include Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Avan Jogia, Thomas Middleditch and Zoey Deutch.ĭeutch is the principal scene stealer, playing Madison (it’s a “Zombieland” tradition that everyone has the name of an American city), who has survived the undead onslaught in the freezer of a shopping-mall frozen-yogurt store. Nobody works too hard, including the new faces on hand to refresh the franchise. There’s nothing here to rival the thing with Bill Murray in “Zombieland” - after all this time, it still feels like a spoiler to say much about it - but the performers commit to the silliness in a spirit of well-compensated affability. Like the first episode, but even more so, this chapter is aware that zombies are a pop-culture cliché and is content to goof on that fact. “Zombieland: Double Tap” is usually content to be funny on just one. There’s a pretty funny riff about Uber, which is a brainstorm the dumbest character comes up with. In the post-apocalyptic world, there’s no history, and the filmmakers (Dave Callaham, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick share script credit) wisely refrain from calibrating too many jokes to the present-day world beyond the screen. During the hiatus, Stone won an Oscar and Eisenberg published a book of stories called “Bream Gives Me Hiccups,” but you’d never know that to see them back again as Wichita and Columbus, shacking up in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. But has it really been a whole decade since “Zombieland,” in which Harrelson joined forces with Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin to crack wise while the skulls of the undead exploded around them? Apparently it has, though part of the charm of this undemanding sequel (directed, like the first one, by Ruben Fleischer) is that it treats 10 years like 10 minutes.
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