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Trust Weighted
Very Good
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66Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary - Very Good 3.5
zLand: Double Tap has moments of comic brilliance, but goes on a bit long, jumping the zombie shark. Happily, it hits a surprise new peak post-credits. Stick around, zombie comedy fans. Who you gonna call?
This success is no surprise. After all, Ruben Fleischer has reunited the cast from zLand 1. That, plus the terrific addition of Zoey Deutch in a Legally Blonde role, makes a great cast greater, excesses forgiven.
Bottom line: zLand 2 clocks in at a respectable Very Good, just as zLand 1 did. Note also that zLand 2 is much edgier and more farcical than the merely edgy and farcical zLand 1. Zombie junkies gotta have more.
Acting - Great 4.0
Great Stars Reunite
- Woody Harrelson: solid per usual
- Jesse Eisenberg: nicely neurotic
- Emma Stone: dry comedienne
- Abigail Breslin: No longer kiddo cute
Major New Star
Zoey Deutch can have an entire career playing dumb blondes after crushing the one she plays in zLand 2. Since she’s apparently neither dumb or blonde, she can also act, which makes her an incipient moviestar.
Bit Players are also great.
- Rosario Dawson owns an Elvis-themed motel.
- Avan Jogia as Berkeley, a pacifist
- Luke Wilson & Thomas Middleditch as doppelgängers of Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg
- Who you gonna call?
- Al Roker, Grace Randolph, Josh Horowitz & Lili Estefan cameo as doppelgängers of themselves
Male Stars - Great 4.0
Female Stars - Great 4.0
Female Costars - Really Great 4.5
Zoey Deutch — a star is bornMale Costars - Great 4.0
Film - Very Good 3.5
Direction - Very Good 3.5
Dialogue - Very Good 3.5
Music - Very Good 3.5
Visuals - Very Good 3.5
3 dozen stuntmenEdge - Sordid 3.3
Sex Titillating 2.5
Violence Savage 4.0
Rudeness Profane 3.5
Reality - Supernatural 4.0
At an rFactor of 4X and true to the Double Tap part of its title, Zombieland 2 is way more farcical than the original Zombieland, to which I assigned an rFactor of 3X.