Zombieland Double Tap movie review: A potent antidote to The Walking Dead but still an unworthy sequel
FirstpostLanguage: English In the last decade or so, the undead have officially usurped the vampires and werewolves to become the principal horror archetype of popular culture. Thankfully, Zombieland: Double Tap is not guilty of this — and that is what makes it a potent The Walking Dead antidote. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote not just the original but also the two Deadpool films, have a deep reverence towards genre tropes but it never stops them from revelling in their irreverence. The film begins in true genre subversive fashion as Columbus takes over the narration to thank us viewers for picking his movie over the other available “choices in zombie entertainment”. More text graphics pop up on screen to introduce Columbus’s rules and the Zombie Kill of the Year, but even that lost its novelty factor one Deadpool ago.