I became an official voter for the Razzies, aka the Golden Raspberry Awards, at the beginning of 2020, and I was looking forward to voting again in 2021, despite there being no cinemas open in the coronavirus pandemic. The Razzies this year would include films released online, and I received an email of suggested titles that could receive nominations, of those released before lockdown and on digital platforms. Among the suggested titles were a trilogy of films starring characters named Barbie and Kendra, and I could tell just by the poster that this, the first of the three films, it was going to be awful. Basically, Barbie (Cody Renee Cameron) is a dumb blonde who starts a phone conversation with her best friend, equally ditsy Kendra (Robin Sydney) (who does not appear onscreen). The girls notice hair salons, restaurants and other places closing around them, and stores running low on supplies of essential items, including toilet paper. Barbie tells Kendra that she noticed people becoming aggressive as they fight to get the essential items, and Kendra tells her to turn on the news to see what is going on. The news reports talk about COVID-19, or coronavirus, which causes raspatory problems that could lead to death. In some cases, the virus has turned people into flesh-eating zombies. The news shows the attacks taking place in public places trying to stay open for business, including a strip club. The news also shows a squad of soldiers, with some surviving civilians, looking for the source of the virus, which started in a soup factory making bat soup, transported from China. While Barbie and Kendra continue to stay indoors and talk to each other, they give their airheaded theories and opinions of what is going on, how they could solve it, and what they will do when it's over, while they watch everything playing out on the television. Also starring Russell Coker as Corona Zombie. The majority of the film is footage from the films Hell of the Living Dead (1980) (an Italian film which already had American dubbing) and Zombies Vs. Strippers (2012) with new and deliberately silly overdubbed dialogue. The only original material are the scenes of Barbie (and Kendra, voice only) which lasts about 5-10 minutes. The lead character(s) are highly annoying stereotypical young beautiful stupid women, the highly gory effects of the used zombie movie do get your attention, but the entire film being made up of footage from two other (virtually unknown) movies is just lazy. All its attempts to be funny, from the leading character(s) to the silly redubbed dialogue, with "jokes" about recent culture and news, including coronavirus, celebrities, TV, and other stuff, are just awful. This is easily one of the cheapest made (for obvious reasons) and most ridiculous films of recent times, only an idiot will find this funny or enjoyable. You'd much rather be wearing a face mask, constantly cleaning surfaces, and excessively putting on hand gel or washing your hands than watching this atrocious comedy horror. It was nominated the Razzies for Worst Director for Charles Band for All 3 Barbie & Kendra movies (along with Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King and Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51), and Worst Screenplay (All 3 Barbie & Kendra movies). Poor!
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