Zombieland: Double Tap Review - 6 Ups & 4 Downs
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6. The Incredible Cast Chemistry
The main reason Double Tap is so much fun in spite of its flaws is the same reason the first did so well: the principal cast members have a charmingly laid-back chemistry that dominates the movie.
Even with Breslin being sequestered in her own story for most of the runtime, the quartet is once again a joy to watch riffing off one another, especially Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, whose petulant rat-a-tat wordplay is at least as funny as it was last time - if not more so.
That all four cast members were willing to return so long after-the-fact despite most of them enjoying huge career successes since perhaps speaks to how much fun they had making the first movie, and that feeling of joy is also self-evident here, transpiring through to the audience at the same time.
It would've been easy for feted actors like Stone and Harrelson to just phone it in for an easy payday, but everyone genuinely seems like they're happy to be reunited with their co-stars, and none of them have missed a single beat.