Review: Zombieland: Double Tap delivers wise-cracking, brain-splattering fun

Enlarge / Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock face a new kind of zombie in Zombieland 2: Double Tap. (credit: YouTube/Sony Pictures)

The makeshift family unit that slays together stays together in Zombieland: Double Tap, Director Ruben Fleischer's follow-up to his 2009 hit film Zombieland. This hotly anticipated sequel succeeds in recapturing much of the original's magic, with plenty of wit, gore, and playful callbacks to delight diehard fans. And let's just say you'll definitely want to hang around through the closing credits.

(Some spoilers below.)

In the first Zombieland, a virulent form of human-adapted mad cow disease sweeps across the United States, transforming most of the nation's populace into ravenous zombies. The film follows a ragtag group of unlikely survivors-Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), and orphaned sisters Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin)-on a road trip in hopes of finding some place yet untouched by the disease, ending with a pitched battle against zombie hordes in an abandoned amusement park. Audiences (myself included) loved the mix of horror and dark screwball comedy, especially the "Zombie Kills of the Week" and Columbus's hilarious survival rules-cardio, limber up, beware of bathrooms, and buckle up, for instance-often illustrated by various doomed souls who failed to heed those rules. It was a fresh, fun take on the "zom-com" format.

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