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March 27, 2020 Season 10, Episode 25

Rob, Don, and General review Zombieland Double Tap, the sequel to the 2009 original film directed by Ruben Fleischer. The cast—Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin—reunite 10 years later as their characters continue fighting evolved zombies, now joined by new characters including Madison (played by an actress whose mother has been a guest on the show). The hosts praise the film's pacing, visual graphics (especially the rule animations), humor, and the cast's chemistry, noting it successfully builds on the original without feeling derivative.

About this episode

Key takeaways

  • The film is accessible even if you haven't seen the first Zombieland, though you'll enjoy it more having seen the original
  • The rule graphics are enhanced from the first film and interact with the action in ways that add character to the visuals
  • The comedy is balanced well with the gore, which is less graphic than the first film, making it suitable for older teens
  • The original cast's chemistry remains strong after 10 years, showing a natural bond that didn't require heavy exposition of what happened between films
  • The film has mid-credits and post-credits scenes that tie back to the first film

Q&A

Can you watch Zombieland Double Tap without seeing the first film?

Yes, you can watch it and be okay, though it's better if you've seen the original

How much gore is in this film compared to the first?

It has less gore than the first film; the gore that is present is more comedic in nature

Is this appropriate for younger viewers?

The R rating is mostly for language; it may be suitable for older teens, though reviewers suggest maybe taking late teens rather than younger children

What happens to the original cast?

Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock reunite; the girls leave to do their own thing, prompting the boys to search for them

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okay Al now dot com in your favorite browser download the app check out all the great shows here on the vocal network of which we are one but now it's time for another home show number 490 so close to another milestone welcome my name is Rob I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast and I don't

like brains I like mine it's not it let's go around the day sitting in the co-host chair is the lady of the house and she's been to a lot of places but she's also been to her she is general welcome friend hello everyone I'm glad you're back with us rounding out the day this is the official fact

checker of sooner or gator productions and a man who hears Columbus and he thinks Christopher you may know him is Igboonu but his mom and even don't part of a calm down for the brother of course sometimes my birthday is a national holiday because it's on Columbus day I know what I'm doing sir exactly now should you

call me T8 or Homer no be T800 that's what I said no you didn't whatever we do one of these it is to review something and this is no different rubin fly sure yeah fly sure make sure get that right 10 years later comes back to one of the movies that put him on the map because it's

time for zombie land double tap for something yes sir we got to take a great friend Brad and everybody at fonts PR for the invite we love our vendors they take care of us and they let us see movies early so we can talk to you guys about them and you can spend your entertainment dollar wisely now

in the opening voiceover when Jesse Eisenberg's character Columbus says that it's been 10 years I said to myself I'd like to see the paperwork on that it's really been 10 years since zombie land yeah 2009 I'm like okay well this is a thing here we go so there's he and Tallahassee played by the great Woody Harrelson along

with Wichita Emma Stone how you doing and little rock Abigail Brezlin you still remember she was a little mason shine so mind blowing they're still fighting zombies they're still together still together still getting her done at this point taking up residents in the White House because apparently nobody else is why not secure still doing what they do

and one day Tallahassee and Columbus wake up to find out that the girls are gone because low rock just she wants to do things that girls her age do and which it's off starting to feel a little closed in so they just take off in the beast which of course does not make Tallahassee happy at all because

he revamped it right so they're they're going about their normal business and the zombies have evolved they have classifications of zombies now so while the boys are out galloping and lamenting on life they run into Madison played by the great so we do it whose mother has been a guest on this show thank you very much you

can look it up she's been living in a freezer at a pinkberry or something of itself yeah and yeah in the mall ends up hookin up with them and it's been about a month at that point and all of a sudden what's your talk shows back up to let them know that little rock has taken the beast

with a hippie pacifist by the name of Berkeley and they are headed to Graceland because that's one of the places that Tallahassee talks about all the time and so little rocks like you know I like to see that so they go off in in order to try to save her and hilarity ensues right at just a little

over an hour and a half which I thought was great yeah stick and move didn't have to be a three hour movie now and when I really also liked about this and you guys can echo this if you want I purposely did not go back and watch the first one because I wanted to be able to see

does this can I see this and not remember much about the first one be okay you can see this having not even seen the first one and be okay I'll be I'll be okay yeah better if you saw the well yeah yeah but yeah and it does hold a lot of things from the first one that those

of us that really like zombie land are going to enjoy again they put the rules up on the screen and they have the little jokes toward the zombies with the rules popping up right and I like that because it didn't feel like for those of us that had seen the first one why do you have to keep

going over this again it they did it in a way where it's like oh yeah that's a thing and oh yeah that's a thing one thing I put my written review at www.clubasspodcast.com that's our website because I put that I like the visual graphics like the rules they had more this time of the rules than the first

one but they even said their own little kind of characteristic right I was going to say it was just like words on a screen they almost interacted with what's going on especially between the character between Eisenberg and well as you yeah you'll meet you meet also a couple of guys Thomas Middletitch's character along with Luke Wilson Albuquerque

and Flagstaff piece of trivia yeah that was originally the names of Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg's character when the first script was written okay which when you see it you'll understand why that's important but yeah there's there's an interaction there and how the graphics were in a way starting to turn their own character yeah even the letters

did their own little oh absolutely I really yeah it's it's like we had with the first one but it's one of those things that really made that movie what it was but it didn't feel like it was just going to the well too much it was just part of the deal no it was it was a refresh

of things we really like I mean as I said as I said it's they followed a formula they have one in my written review at www.clubhousepodcast.com that's our website that it's they found a formula that works but it's not sitting there going oh I've seen this before I've seen this before it's I enjoyed that before and I'm

gonna enjoy this new version of it without beating it into oblivion as some some film with their sequels try to do it's like oh this work let's just do this ad nauseam where this complimented what was going on and they enhanced that I thought they really enhanced like the visuals like the the rules and stuff and one

thing I put is basically that in my thoughts on this are that it had the foundation of the original but it had it kind of new added more pizzazz but you it kind of felt like it still had that same feeling style as if you left the film 10 years ago and you just want to take a

break and you're still watching that same film but it's evolved a little bit more so it's like I think you go over to it's an extension of an extended version of the version but this one had had the roots and stuff but it had its own newer more pizzazz which I think really made this film even so

much I really dug this out absolutely dug it's hilarity all the way throughout it's paced well enough that at no point was I like let's just get this thing moving there's just the Gore is almost comedic in nature and there's very little of the true Gore so it's you know if you're gonna go there go to a

place where you're gonna eat and watch the movie which we did it wasn't like oh enjoy your dinner everybody you know it actually I believe had less Gore than the first one you know what I was gonna say the same thing I was wondering if it was just me but they still had it in there which I

think is a great thing about it and the zombie kill the year of course they still have that which yeah it's I mean it's it's a it's a genre of movie with these zombie movies you know the Sean of the dead the zombie lands and now zombie land double tap it's a genre where yes it's a zombie

movie yes you're going to jump at points but you're also laughing through a good absolutely I was hurting the next day I'd been laughing so hard the thing I loved that interaction and relationship between the character of Tallahassee and Madison and oh absolutely I mean which a taught in Madison oh yeah that is she and we don't

want it we don't want it too deep into it just know that so we do I just character does throw a monkey wrench in but everything from the trailer saying she has no brains you can tell just from the trailer how her and her style of the I see he to say it's a steer steer typical blonde

you can say not saying that all but stereotypical I think is the word you need to put on there the stereotypical blonde trying to interact with Tallahassee's character you saw a little bit of it in the trailer but oh they really let that thing run and they did it good and one thing I think you guys missed

because you left a little bit earlier in the credits the song that plays over the end credits which is a cover song sung by Woody Harrelson thank you very much I just there is a mid credit scene and a post credit scene so be prepared for that which will answer some questions that I don't want to go

into because it could be a minor spoiler but it does answer some questions that are asked not only in the film but tie back to the first one which I thought was great there was something and we can talk about this off air there's a I think there was a missed opportunity in the mid credit sequence that

we can talk about I just loved this film there's nothing about it I didn't love the the climactic scene at the end seemed a little reminiscent of the the battle of Castle Black and in in Game of Thrones a little bit there might have been a little bit of a nod to that maybe but it was so

so good I just I love this movie on every level yeah it's and it's great to have it out at Halloween you know for those of us that want some Halloween feel but don't like to as you like to say don't want to film the XSPN ourselves this is a good in between of those two especially if

you've got some of the kids that are maybe a little bit older because the R to me the R was more about the language than anything else it's the same it's the same right from Deadpool and Deadpool 2 so it's that it's and the director of them yeah and because so we reviewed a movie last week that

we could probably take the kids this one you maybe take the late teens with you on this one if you're gonna do that as a film and I really really enjoyed this film oh yeah my thing is how they enter there are some new characters in this like Dawson and stuff like that and how they added these

people to the storyline I think they added them well um like in Nevada Dawson um she I think she's a good way to add some new people and she fit it well well it didn't feel she warned in there exactly I think that's the thing there was a natural progression to that yeah uh it's just at this

film was written well it was done well visually it's spot on I just I it's so hard not to talk too much about it because I don't want to give too much away and that's the thing and the primary cast embraced the roles again just like they had before it's smooth with them there's not a struggle you

can tell they're a unit they work together well and you can you it's almost like they bonded in the making of the first film and they haven't lost that bond so that bond really is impressive that bond is 10 years strong and they just they go with it in the relationship house they came as a family and

have grown over 10 years and you could tell there as they are now versus 10 years ago you could tell that they became and you didn't have to do a lot of story to show it it was just there like you said it wasn't like we had to go through and talk about everything that's happened last 10

years yeah let's go let's move it forward and you can just see like those relationships work I mean in this film starts from the moment those opening credits are rolling they start this thing literally yeah which yeah don't do not be late for the start of the movie that's all we're saying yeah that that was so well

that first thing started I was like okay yep yep yep yep this is gonna be good so there's worst film the worst songs you could play at the beginning of a movie too yeah but I'm just saying anything else for you to file analysis name something you didn't like I'm having that ended yeah I wanted more yeah

I can think no and usually my fear sequels you know which I put again my written review WWW that's called us podcast dot com that's our website this one I was kind of scared because I wanted to see a sequel but I was worried that it would be ghost buster doubt not not so I disagree here because

I really enjoy ghost busters too but yeah and I also enjoyed good ghost busters answer the call all right let's get to the final analysis the way we do the final analysis on this show we're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down letter grades numbers kills anything like that two questions question number one is what

we see this again if the answers know then we're done here but if the answer is yes the follow up question is how far are we willing to go to see it from the best of the best of the worst of the best here's how it works full price at a theater down to a twilight showing down

to a matinee showing down to early morning on a weekend down to second run at the dollar theater down to obtaining a physical copy down to streaming down to cable general we will start with you would you see zombie land double tap yet to gain yes there's the thing how far you willing to go to do it

I would go full price and you know me I'm gonna order it done would you see the zombie land double tap again yippers how about you coveted cash register ring it coveted full price theater I would definitely see the skin it's unanimous I would love to because I did see the Dolby Atmos logo on this I would

like to see this in the Dolby at the start yeah be amazing it is it is directed by Ruben Fleischer it is a zombie land double tap for this whole thing yes sir you have to think Brad and everybody have funs PR for the invite we love our vendors our vendors let us do cool stuff so we

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