ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP
A wildly entertaining zombie comedy with Christian references—for adults only.
Should You Watch It?
The answer depends on what you can responsibly carry into a horror-comedy. ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP is a four-star entertainment: fast, funny, and full of enjoyable character interactions. Its makeshift family, themes of marriage and self-sacrifice, Christian references, and strong message supporting self-defense give it more moral substance than its undead mayhem might suggest.
But the movie earns its adult-only judgment. The violence is constant, graphic, bloody, and played for laughs. Strong foul language is frequent. The film also treats premarital sex casually and includes a positive reference to marijuana use.
If you are a discerning adult who can engage those elements without harm to your conscience, this is worth the trip. It is not a family movie, so choose something else for children and young teens.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESTen years after the first film, Columbus, Little Rock, Wichita, and Tallahassee have become an efficient zombie-killing team in post-apocalyptic America. They have also built a funny kind of family life inside a long-abandoned White House.
When Little Rock runs away with a young hippie musician, her sister Wichita persuades Tallahassee to help find her. Their search becomes another wild journey through a dangerous world filled with undead threats and comic chaos.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this sequel delivers excellent entertainment, even if it does not recapture the first film’s originality. The returning Oscar-nominated cast clearly enjoys the material, and each performer plays well against the others’ screen images. The traveling comic mayhem and character interactions remain consistently entertaining.
Director Ruben Fleischer and the three scriptwriters handle the over-the-top action with impressive comic control. The violence is so exaggerated that it often becomes funny rather than frightening.
Still, the movie can feel familiar after the original’s freshness. It also lacks the earlier film’s tremendous surprise. Even so, the cast, pacing, humor, and action make this a highly entertaining sequel.
The Worldview
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP has a strong moral worldview mixed with overt Christian elements. It promotes marriage, family, and self-sacrifice, while also presenting a very strong message supporting the right to bear arms and the Second Amendment. The film includes references to Christmas, a couple of Christmas carols, and a road sign saying, “Jesus Will Save You.”
The movie’s moral strengths are marred by lawless and pagan elements. Characters take what they want to survive, and the film treats marijuana use positively in a comic situation. Its attitude toward premarital sex is casual rather than morally serious.
The strongest themes are helping others through self-sacrifice and protecting the people who have become family. Those themes align with the biblical call to sacrificial love: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong moral worldview with some overt Christian elements promotes marriage, family and self-sacrifice and with a very strong message supporting the right to bear arms and the second Amendment, marred by some Antinomian, lawless, pagan elements
Foul Language
At least, 58 obscenities (including many “f” words), three strong profanities and two light profanities
Violence
Frequent zombie-killing violence, using guns, fire, explosions, bludgeoning, stabbings, and other traumatic methods, all with profuse bloodletting but also played for laughs as well as scares
Sex
Implied fornication and cohabitation, and several sexual innuendoes between two men fighting over a woman about who gets to “use her driveway”
Nudity
No nudity
Alcohol Use
The older male lead is seen with whiskey bottles several times, either taking a swig or implying he drinks heavily
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking but comical references to implied marijuana use when 21-year-old woman runs off with a hippie musician, who produces a giant bag of marijuana when he learns she’s always wanted to smoke marijuana, and she smiles;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Characters take what they want to survive and a woman says she has a way “to get around Jesus,” but she’s depicted as dumb.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The characters form a makeshift family and risk themselves to help one another. What does sacrificial love look like in your family?
John 15:13 · Philippians 2:3–4The movie presents marriage and family as important while also showing fear about marriage. What helps build a faithful, lasting marriage?
Genesis 2:24 · Ephesians 5:25The film strongly supports protecting others through force. How should Christians think about self-defense, courage, and responsibility?
Nehemiah 4:14 · Romans 12:18A road sign says, “Jesus Will Save You.” What does Jesus save people from, and what does salvation mean in the gospel?
Matthew 1:21 · Ephesians 2:8–9The Final Word
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP is fast, funny, and surprisingly rich in themes of family, marriage, self-sacrifice, and Christian hope. Its adult content is substantial, so it is not for children or young teens. For discerning adults, though, the verdict is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For a family movie night, try.
