'ZOMBIE' STRIPS AWAY ALL DIGNITY.Byline: >Bob Strauss Exotic dancers discover that being undead un·dead adj. No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie. earns them more tips in this homage to Eugene Ionesco's classic absurdist play "Rhinoceros rhinoceros, massive hoofed mammal of Africa, India, and SE Asia, characterized by a snout with one or two horns. The rhinoceros family, along with the horse and tapir families, forms the order of odd-toed hoofed mammals. ." You read that right: Existentialism existentialism (ĕgzĭstĕn`shəlĭzəm, ĕksĭ–), any of several philosophic systems, all centered on the individual and his relationship to the universe or to God. and rotting female flesh, with a lot of dumb jokes about the Bush administration thrown in for no good measure. The gore effects are well done and plentiful, the silicone even more impressive and generously distributed. Other than that, it's a pretty bad movie. Whatever his pretensions, Jay Lee is neither a good enough writer nor director to pull off even his simplest ideas, which include endlessly witless wit·less adj. Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish. wit  less·ly adv.wit attempts at satire. Uniformly campy acting from "Nightmare on Elm Street's" Robert Englund and an otherwise no-name cast doesn't help, although this may be your best chance in life to hear porn queen Jenna Jameson quote Nietzche. Needless to say, the misogyny reeks; unexpectedly, the movie's bigotry is almost as ugly. ZOMBIE STRIPPERS - One and one half stars >R: gory violence, nudity, language, racism. >Playing: Nuart, West Los Angeles
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