Remember that small sliver of time when a bunch of yahoos were going to stampede Area 51? Well, you can relive that oh-so-dated moment in history with the sporadically amusing Barbie and Kendra Storm Area 51. It’s not great or anything, but it’s downright Shakesperean compared to its predecessor, Barbie and Kendra Save the Tiger King.
Barbie (Cody Renee Cameron) and Kendra (Robin Sydney) return home after briefly becoming trapped in the movie Robot Wars. (Don’t ask.) Since the pandemic is still going on, they decide to stay on the couch and watch a conspiracy theory TV show. The show purports to blow the lid off the top-secret incident where a group of aliens (led by a sexy queen) traveled to Earth to abduct a little girl. Convinced the government has been lying to them all these years about UFOs, Barbie and Kendra pack their bags for Area 51.
This was a marked improvement over Barbie and Kendra Save the Tiger King, if only because it was a good half-hour shorter. The movie-within-a-movie (which is a mash-up of The Day Time Ended and Space Thing) is also semi-enjoyable this time around, and it contains a few actual laughs, which is something that can’t be said for Save the Tiger King. The narrator does a fairly solid Morgan Freeman impression too.
I’m not saying it all works. Characters that sound like everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Bullwinkle J. Moose to Fat Bastard from Austin Powers kind of grate on the nerves after a while. However, the jokes about the alien pyramid being some sort of half-assed Alexa device are good for a couple of dumb laughs. The Space Thing sequences also provide the film with some T & A, which is certainly a plus. On the flipside, the Barbie and Kendra scenes are hit-and-miss and aren’t nearly as good as the dubbed-dialogue movie. However, I did like the part when they called aliens “extra-testicles.”
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