Thursday, October 17, 2019

Zombieland Double Feature

I am now officially on fall break and I couldn't be happier!  I am not going out of town this year but I do have quite a few things planned and I'm really looking forward to them.  I started my break with a double feature of Zombieland and Zombieland: Double Tap and it was so much fun.  My sister Kristine kept telling me that I would really like Zombieland, but I never went to see it when it was in theaters.  She finally made me watch it when we were all camping one weekend and, of course, I loved watching Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) battle the undead after the zombie apocalypse.  I'm glad I had the chance to see it again (this time on the big screen).  Zombieland: Double Tap picks up ten years later and finds Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita, and Little Rock living as a family in the abandoned White House.  However, Wichita feels that she is becoming too attached to Columbus and Little Rock thinks that Tallahassee is overbearing and wants a boyfriend so they leave.  Wichita eventually returns after Little Rock takes off with a hippie named Berkeley (Avan Jogia).  She convinces Tallahassee and Columbus to go after Little Rock with her and chaos ensues.  They meet other survivors named Madison (Zoey Deutch), Reno (Rosario Dawson), Albuquerque (Luke Wilson) and Flagstaff (Thomas Middleditch) and discover that the zombies have mutated to become stronger and faster.  There is an epic confrontation with these zombies and the four of them realize that they really are a family who belong together.  In my opinion, this movie is not quite as good as the original (some of the humor is a bit belabored) but there are some really funny scenes, especially those involving characters that mimic the personalities of our main characters, and some fun (and gory) action sequences, particularly the Zombie Kill of the Week (and Month and Century).  I had so much fun watching this movie because the fun and rowdy crowd cheered every time one of Columbus' rules appeared on the screen!  I think fans of the original will like this movie as much as I did.

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