The original “Zombieland” knew what it was doing. The script, which must’ve taken at least two hours to pull together, is divided into dreary sections: the faux family jokes to catch us up on what everyone’s been doing for the last decade, the Dumb Blonde jokes occasioned by the arrival of Madison, the Elvis jokes when they stop by the Hound Dog Hotel – run by Rosario Dawson and a chaotic zombie mash-up finale that suggests the last 15 minutes of any number of half-assed comedies from the mid-‘80s. There’s even a doppelganger bit that dates as far back as Edgar Allen Poe, but mostly steals from a famous episode of “Seinfeld.”
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But mostly, the movie is stale and sloppy. There are some funny lines and a smattering of semi-clever plot twists.
But compared to the raised consciousness that attends issues like race and the LGBTQ movement, it’s still in its infancy. Scott writing the same thing about a Stepin Fetchit character. For example, the New York Times review praises Deutch for bringing “remarkable energy and wit to a dreary stereotype.” At least not in terms of nauseating stereotypes.Īnd unfortunately, a lot of the film writing community is blandly supportive. You want to know what #MeToo has changed in Hollywood? And that’s when “Double Tap” goes from disappointing to unbearable. They’re joined by an air-headed blonde, Madison (Zoey Deutch), in a pink parka and Uggs, who’s been hiding out in a mall.
Then they split up, with Wichita returning “home” and Little Rock heading off with a movie-hippie cliché named, of course, Berkeley (Avan Jogia). They’ve created a surrogate family of sorts: patriarch Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), lovey-dovey couple Columbus and Wichita (Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone) and rebellious youngster Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who’s sick of being treated like a baby and wants to find someone her own age to hang with.Īfter a spat with Columbus, Wichita takes off, taking Little Rock with her.
Ten years later, the zombies are still on the loose and our protagonists have settled into the White House.
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