Stripperland, Back Review
Year:
2011
Stars: Benjamin
Sheppard, Jamison Challeen, Maren McGuire
Directed:
Sean Skelding
Running Time:
103mins
That’s right! A parody of a parody of zombie apocalypse
films! Didn’t think it was possible? Well neither did I but here it is anyway.
Directed by Sean Skelding (which might I add is usually a set dresser on most
films but has directed another film called I am virgin) and made for a $500,000
budget.
Benjamin Sheppard is Idaho (A parody of Columbus) he also
doesn’t have any other major acting roles under his belt.
Jamison Challeen is Frisco (yes you guessed it Tallahassee)
he was in the directors other film I am virgin and a few other titles.
Maren McGuire is Virginia (as the Wichita parody) she too
was in I am Virgin and quite a bit more film wise and series wise.
These films are all part of some films that parody comedy
films, and are one of them jumping on the success bandwagon of other movies.
These are usually hit and miss, unfortunately mostly miss a lot of the time.
This being a zombie film and a b-movie I was willing to give it a go.
From the beginning this movie is like the film it rips
off word for word almost, Idaho even says oh like that movie when they name
each other places there from and it even has the rules.
This doesn’t make it a bad thing mind, the zombie disease
in this only effects women and it turns them into stripper/zombie hybrids and
us men thinking mostly with our penises fall prey to them rather quickly.
A flashback while their talking shows Idaho in his room
debunking the outbreak to a friend, when he gets disturbed mid self-pleasuring
by his step mum he opens the door to see she’s a Strombie? Zomper? Bugger it zombie will do.
He evades her with ease to find his dad hurt and dying,
tries to reconcile in a trying to be comedic way but fails. His step mum breaks
free and his dying dad saves him giving him time to run off with a case that he’s
not to use unless everything goes to shit, so that’s Idaho’s story.
Anyways true to the original film Frisco stays stoically
quite apart from about the case which Idaho knows nothing about. On the road
driving some almost funny jokes happen one fart joke some quite moments and
Idaho trying to make friends.
They come across double D a world famous rapper I was
mildly entertained by it being Daniel Baldwin, where are those Baldwin’s lately.
He rapping (as he’s a rapper) making the zombies dance for him.
Virginia isn’t anything Wichita when they meet she is
totally unimpressed by the rules and even calls Idaho a rule 55, you’ll get it
if you watch it. Though her sister (West) does seem to warm to him and even
tries to support him at points.
They end up in a shopping complex where their invited to
stay by the pimp daddy, who comes from a long line of pimps this was funny.
Only oops they’ve left the back door open and hordes of strippers come pouring
in. They invite him to go with them but he declines because he’s a bad man and
would have the women turfed out in a day. As their leaving he’s dragged into a
door way by multiple zombies.
He’s eaten.
Over run with zombies they flee. In a one on 10 act,
Virginia takes on a load of zombies with two machete’s so as not to attract more
with gunfire. The strippers/zombies in this film seem to drop easy no need for
head shots just a mortal wound in sufficient.
Later on in a casino the girls get the boys to strip
while playing poker, unknown to them their being watched by an apparent nutcase
on the security cameras.
The crazy doc captures them and intends to turn the women
into love slaves/housewives with a different strain of the virus he’s been working
on, it backfires they escape and when he releases his trapped stripper to get
the girls they turn on him instead. There we have yet another place they run
from and head back out.
In a scene parodying the Bill Murray incident they go to
some guys house whose famous for selling some grills and being in loads of apparently
famous films that we’ve never of but they sound like parodies if other things.
Thinking it’s a stripper from scenes of fish netted legs we are treated to him
in women’s underwear asking them why they’re in his house.
We find out he’s dressed like that so it fool the
strippers when he ventures out, he gets wasted when Frisco running to them
laughing mistakes him for a zombie. Again they move on this time they get cornered
in a gas station while in the shop quick thinking from earlier Idaho turns on
music and the strippers start to dance to it.
This isn’t enough though and Idaho’s rapping is something
to be desired, then the girls decide to dance their way through the stripper to
gas up the truck.
At this point there’s very little more to tell you as there’s
not much film left and you know I at THN never spoil endings for you (well very
rarely) so some more factual stuff. The effects are for the budget reasonable
the make up about as best you could get for it, the dodgy CGI is baaaad when
the camera moves so does it, it’s quite amusing and the blood fountains are bad
also buuuut for the cash they had it is the best and as always I’ve seen worse
on much higher budget films.
Acting all round is medium no real bad ones and I suppose
with a better script these people could pull of some bigger jobs easy. It wasn’t
great and a lot of the comedy that zombieland had and worked well just doesn’t
translate over that well unfortunately. I being a metal/rock fan appreciated
the sound track in here a lot as there was a lot of it; this is something that
may put others off of this film though.
Also it may not appeal to women as well there scantily
clad strippers walking about a lot, but fear not they don’t get naked much, in
fact hardly ever and a large selection of the women are used over and over with
different wigs etc.
You know I really may change my rating to allow for at least
one half mark a two and half in the near future as 2 is too low for this and 3
to high. So at the moment this gets a solid 2.
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