In this saturated environment, making a truly fresh sequel that didn't seem five or six years too late was a tall order. But after Zombieland's massive success, a sequel stalled while the genre exploded in popularity and zombie comedy after zombie comedy flooded the marketplace. The long-delayed Zombieland sequel has finally risen from the dead, but in more ways than one, it feels stuck in the past.ĭirector Ruben Fleischer's original 2009 comedy came along at the ideal time, as the zombie genre was just reaching its modern peak - a few years after Shaun of the Dead, a year after the zombie first-person shooter Left 4 Dead, and just before The Walking Dead would become a television phenomenon.
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