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movie review - Zombieland: Double Tap

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2019.09.09

This is the sequel to the only good zombie movie in recent years, "Zombieland", released a full decade earlier. It features the characters we know and love, several months down the line from the last time. They're still living in the White House and the only real change to report is that the zombies seem to be "evolving" into differentiated sorts. One of which the name for Homer Simpson, and one they name for the T-100 from Terminator.

Then the younger sister decides this isn't enough, and that it's time to hit the road. The older sister, spooked by a wedding proposal from her fellow, takes the younger sister out on the road.

The two men then decide to go their own separate ways as well, and it looks like the movie will undo what the last one built: that semi-family.

But instead the older sister returns to report that her sister's fallen in with some hippies, and the rest agree to go find her because the story doesn't add up and it sounds like the girl's in some trouble.

I enjoyed the continuation of this story and enjoyed the treatment of a world gone completely to pot where no-one seems to be involved in agriculture because the zombies are somehow persisting. The whole thing seems suspended, waiting for a collapse. I wonder if they'll make another, and if it will then address that. Because there's enough intelligence in these things to suggest that that's possible. (Also, will we wait another decade?)

Recommended.

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