Review of Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) by Jordanlayton — 30 Apr 2020

Comedy is subjective. The theater I was at was having a ball laughing at the jokes in this movie but they just didn't land for me or Lauren. 90% of this film is comedy, so it being outside of my sense of humor didn't leave much for me to like. Aside from the comedy though, there were no memorable action set pieces in my opinion. People went through walls a few times and there was one scene at the end that had a premise I liked, but the execution of all action in this film just felt pretty uninspired and that's something I remember differently about Zombieland 1. I also didn't feel the same comradery between the characters in this one. That might just be because I've come to dislike characters like 'Columbus' (played by Jesse Eisenberg), though. I don't think the sympathetic bumbling nerdy nice guy character type really works for me anymore. Emma Stone was the only character I didn't find myself willing off the screen whenever they had a line. The new characters being a stereotypical dumb blonde and a stoner didn't do much for me either.

I went into this excited to see it and ready to like it. Lauren commented after that she was surprised at how excited I was to see it. That's probably because I remember really liking the first one. I'm going to revisit the first one soon (possibly today) because I feel very uneasy about how much I didn't like this one. One other note: a lot of scenes seemed quite blurry and one drone shot in particular seemed very low quality. The effects weren't anything to write home about either.