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(A version of this article originally appeared on kernelnow.com / mynewslike.com) Somehow, it’s been ten whole years since Zombieland hit cinema screens. That means it’s been a decade since we were introduced to the neurotic Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), the hyper-redneck Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), survivalist supreme Wichita (Emma Stone) and her younger sister, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). It’s very unusual for modern cinema to wait so long for a sequel; perhaps, terrifyingly, we’re only getting one now because ‘The Noughties’ have become as retro as Ghostbusters or Evil Dead . Regardless of the existential crises behind the delay, Zombieland: Double Tap is a follow-up which is happily unafraid to embrace the time passed since its original outing, both within the plot and through Columbus’s returning voiceover. To either contentedness or chagrin (depending on which character you look at), not much is new for the foursome and the wasteland that humanity now lives in: