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ZOMBIELAND 3-D is a Lose/Lose Situation – We Are Movie Geeks

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ZOMBIELAND 3-D is a Lose/Lose Situation

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ZOMBIELAND was a near-perfect zombie picture that offered as many laughs as it did thrills, and, overall, it was one of the most entertaining times at the theater all year.  Now comes word from Moviehole that a sequel is not only planned, it is definite.  To that, I simply say, “Why?”  Leave the first film alone.  Leave the first film’s ending alone.  I’m going to get into some spoiler territory here on the first ZOMBIELAND, so, if you haven’t seen it, you may want to divert your eyeballs elsewhere.

Seeing Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock drive off into the proverbial sunset after escaping the onslaught of zombies is a picture-perfect ending.  I was so fearful near the end of ZOMBIELAND that some of them might not make it, it was such a sigh of relief when, indeed, they all did.  I know this was initially planned as a pilot episode for a series, but that didn’t happen.  The film that was left in its place was a perfect, little one-shot, and no amount of money means we deserve another go at these characters.

Unfortunately, if and when a sequel does come out, that means a few things story-wise:

  1. More survivors – I don’t want to see more survivors.  These four and Bill Murray were perfectly simple and perfectly effective.  Having the quartet come upon a whole other group of survivors would just seem obvious and wasteful.
  2. More zombies – It’s a sequel.  We have to up the ante, right?  That means a ton more zombies.  At some point, it’s going to feel like, excuse the pun, overkill.  The group they faced at the end of the first film was just the right size.
  3. More threats of character death – I like all four of these characters.  Putting them into a whole new film means any one of them could get taken out, and that, I don’t like one bit.

Let’s just brush past the idea that this sequel is going to be 3-D.  I’m not shy in expressing my deep hatred for the over-usage of 3-D technology.  It’s pointless, and, more often than not, it’s distracting.

Of course, director Ruben Fleischer, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick could come up with something that makes a ZOMBIELAND sequel just as successful as well as just as much fun as the first film.  We shall see.  For now, I say this is a lose/lose situation on all counts.

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