{"id":114855,"date":"2019-10-16T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/16\/zombieland-double-tap-review-a-fan-service-sequel-for-fans-who-barely-exist\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:48:48","slug":"zombieland-double-tap-review-a-fan-service-sequel-for-fans-who-barely-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114855","title":{"rendered":"Zombieland: Double Tap review \u2013 a fan service sequel for fans who barely exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A belated sequel to the 2009 sleeper hit brings back the main cast but can\u2019t quite conjure up enough humour or charm to justify its existenceAt a relatively brief 99 minutes, Zombieland: Double Tap doesn\u2019t provide one with anywhere near enough time to figure out exactly why Zombieland: Double Tap exists. The closest I could manage was sheer greed, but even that explanation would require a strongheld belief that a substantial fanbase cared about or even remembered the original. It was a decently reviewed sleeper success which provided a much hankered-for eyeroll at the influx of zombie films flooding cinemas at the time \u2013 but it was that and little else. A smile of a movie that turned into more of a shrug over time. Related: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review \u2013 panto fun is missing in action Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/oct\/16\/zombieland-double-tap-film-review-emma-stone\" target=\"_blank\">Zombieland: Double Tap review \u2013 a fan service sequel for fans who barely exist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belated sequel to the 2009 sleeper hit brings back the main cast but can\u2019t quite conjure up enough humour or charm to justify its existenceAt a relatively brief 99 minutes, Zombieland: Double Tap doesn\u2019t provide one with anywhere near enough time to figure out exactly why Zombieland: Double Tap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}