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A virus has been unleashed that has turned (almost) all of American
women into strippers. Which might sound great, but the problem is that
these strippers are also carnivorous zombies. Young Idaho (Ben Sheppard)
has been obsessed with strippers for all of his life, and he knows pretty
much everything about strippers - which has saved his life a number of
times. But eventually, he needs some rescuing when he runs into a tight
spot, and he is rescued by Frisco (Jamison Challeen), a wannabe cowboy of
the silent kind who just hates strippers (and who will be revealed to be
gay later on). The odd couple embarks on a roadtrip to God-knows-where,
and on their way they pick up two uninfected girls, Virginia (Maren
McGuire) and West (Ileana Herrin) - who in an ironic twist later on will
be revealed to be real life (as opposed to zombified) strippers. Virginia
and West persuade the boys to take them to Portland, Oregon, which sounds
like a bad idea, because Portland has the highest stripper-per-capita
ratio in the whole country, but Virginia and West's grandma (Linnea
Quigley) is a top pastry chef - and Frisco just loves pies. On their way
to Portland, our heroes have to fend off many zombie attacks and meet many
weird characters, like a rapper (William Baldwin) who uses his skills to
keep the zombies at bay (after all, strippers love hip hop music), an
action movie star (Hank Cartwright) who dresses like a stripper to move
among the zombies undetected, and a mad scientist (Boyd Banks) who wants
to use (and transform) the stripper virus to turn all women into perfect
wives. Ultimately, already in Oregon, our heroic quartet finds itself
surrounded by strippers and without any weapons - except a briefcase Idaho
has been carrying with him all the time, a briefcase containing a fortune
in Dollar bills. And strippers love Dollar bills ... It all ends happily
with grandma saving our heroes, Idaho getting the girl (Virginia), and
Frisco getting all the pie he can eat ... The concept of this
film is a winning formula: A zombie comedy in which all zombies are also
strippers. And some of the jokes are absolutely on target (e.g. the
zombies in this film are so slow because all strippers wear heels). But
unfortunately, even besides being a thinly veiled knock-off of Zombieland,
Stripperland as such is a small-scale disaster:
Basically, the film doesn't feature much of a plot, just a bunch of
loosely connected episodes of varying (but mostly minor) quality. On top
of that, the characters are all terribly clichéed and especially Ben
Sheppard as Idaho is quite annoying. Add to this a clumsily tagged on
feminist message (please note, I'm not complaining about the message here,
but the delivery), very puerile humour and a total lack of understanding
concerning strippers, and you are left with ... not all that much. And
how come a film titled Stripperland contains quite so little
nudity? Note to the makers of this film, the main attraction of a stripper
is not her wearing a slutty outfit but her getting naked. Sure, there are
always those who claim the focus of a good striptease is on the tease, but
that's a load of baloney: All the tease is worth shit if there isn't a
payoff (nudity) in the end. Of course, all I write here about
the film will not make the least bit of difference to you, if you have set
your mind on buying Stripperland based on its concept (zombies that
are also strippers) you will do so no matter what I say and even if you
trust me in everything else. And I can't blame you, because I know I would
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