Zombieland: Double Tap has no business being as good as it is

18.10.2019 00:04

TheSun.co.uk

AGAINST the odds, this post-apocalyptic shoot-em-up sequel more than justifies its existence.

Set several years after its predecessor, the gang are still crossing the US avoiding zombies, until they shack up at . . . the White House. Well, why wouldn’t you?

Rosario Dawson stars as Nevada

Life is sweet in the Oval Office until itchy feet send Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) off on a trip off their own.

A dejected Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) and Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) head off to find them, meeting the ditzy Madison (brilliant newcomer Zoey Deutch) and no-nonsense Nevada (Rosario Dawson) along the way.

A quest to rescue Little Rock results, while avoiding a new generation of super-charged zombies.

This has no business being as good as it is.

The humour is where we left it but still works, especially Eisenberg’s neurotic whingeing and Deutch’s painfully dim Madison.

It feels like watching a lengthy compilation of well-scripted cut-scenes from zombie video games. But any movie with jokes about David Gray and Portishead is all right by me.