Zombie Strippers takes place in an alternate reality which is way scarier than zombies. In this alternate world, George W. Bush has been elected to his fourth term in office, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as his Vice President. He has managed to start wars not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, France, Canada, and Alaska amongst others.
As part of their maniacal attempt to rule the world, the regime develops a virus which reanimates the dead, hoping to turn them into super soldiers for use against their numerous enemies. Predictably, the virus gets out when the zombies get out of control and bite a soldier who flees the base knowing that he will be killed if his infection is discovered.
The escaped soldier finds himself in an illegal strip club where he ends up spreading the virus to one of the women working there, Kat, who is played by Jenna Jameson. Contrary to the commonly held convention that zombies are slow and decrepit, this virus creates zombies with superhuman speed and agility. The undead strippers are popular with the slovenly club customers and, therefore, the despicable club owner, who is played excellently by Robert Englund of Freddy Krueger fame. But there is a hitch.
Much like usual zombies, it turns out zombie strippers like to eat live human flesh. Soon things spiral out of control as additional dancers and patrons get chomped and turn into yet more zombies.
Zombie Strippers is one of those movies that is so terrible and so great at the same time. On the one hand, it is ridiculous to the extreme, and to the point of obnoxiousness at times. Furthermore, perhaps unsurprisingly given the title, it objectifies women at every turn, and although ultimately the perpetrators of sexist behavior in the film all get their just desserts by the end, all the strippers end up dead too, so its hardly much retribution. At the same time there is a very open, obvious, and unhidden anti-Bush, anti-war message here criticizing the entire lunacy of the "war on terror".
The gore is pretty nasty at times and is well done. The acting actually wasn't bad either. Robert Englund, obviously used to playing evil characters, did a great job as the vile, misogynist, self-serving club owner. For that matter, most of the cast was decent with the exception of some of the soldiers whose roles were relatively small anyhow. The movie also has a humorous side to it. Lot's of irony and wise cracks. Aside from that, this movie contains little more than numerous and unnecessarily lengthy dance scenes and a really stupid battle scene between two rival strippers towards the end which involves ping pong balls. Ultimately, when you make the decision to spend time watching a movie called Zombie Strippers, you shouldn't be too surprised with what you get.
2 ping pong balls out of 5
Rated 18A/R for strong violence and gore, sexuality/nudity and language.
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