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Whereas the first movie was about finding a family, the sequel acknowledges that families can be oppressive and annoying even so, running away from them isn’t the answer. Following the events of the 2009 movie, Columbus and Wichita have settled into a domestic romance at the makeshift family’s new dwelling, an Obama-era White House, where the overbearing Tallahassee treats Little Rock like a child. He’s joined by brutal redneck Tallahassee (Woody Harrellson) and the sisters, the cautious Wichita (Emma Stone) and her now-twentysomething sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). Once again, the neurotic and rule-obsessed Columbus is our nebbish guide through the post-apocalyptic wasteland. “So, thank you for picking us.” Accordingly, the movie doesn’t attempt to reinvent the formula of the original. “You have a lot of choices when it comes to zombie entertainment,” says Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus in his omnipresent voiceover. Though the rise and subsequent decline of AMC’s The Walking Dead could be accused of invalidating the zombie genre in cinemas for the time being, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (who wrote Deadpool together), along with Dave Callaham, don’t shy away from acknowledging either the passage of time or the ubiquitousness of zombies in pop-culture. The material even feels refreshing, despite coming out in the wake of countless zombie movies and television shows in the last decade.
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The full cast has returned (all four of them), and everyone appears quite happy to be back into character. That’s hardly something to blame on the movie, a delightful retread of the comic dynamism and undead peril that defined the original. But just like Incredibles 2, the follow-up to Zombieland is a worthy sequel whose only major problem is that it took too long to get into theaters. Expectations had risen to outrageous extremes, making it impossible to achieve the anticipated greatness that in the interim fans had believed inevitable. By the time it arrived, many felt disappointed or underwhelmed. The movie will doubtless suffer the same fate as other long-delayed sequels such as last year’s Incredibles 2, which was preceded by such an extensive period of waiting that audiences may have given up hope of ever seeing it. As the first sequel to the 2009 original, it has taken a decade to reach theaters. Zombieland: Double Tap is smart enough to know the odds are against it.