Runtime:
85 minutes
Directed
by: Ken Wiederhorn
Starring:
John DiSanti, Charles Pitt, Roy Sekoff, Robert Small
From:
Mad Makers Inc. (at least that's as much info as I have)
I
apologize for this being up a day late. Things were out of my hands,
and this wasn't what I was originally going to watch. But I was
inspired by a few things (including a guy on a messageboard talking
about this ultra-obscure film) and a podcast reviewing yet another
movie (like Pinball Summer) where the heroes are referred to as
“asstagonists” due to them being the people you're supposed to
root for and yet they act rather repugnant and many people would end
up loathing them.
I've seen some clips from this after the
messageboard mention, and those and the trailer below (where they act
like this incredibly immature movie is called King Fucking Frat) seem
to make those guys look like asstagonists.
Once
I saw the movie (not that I'd tell you the less than ethical way to find it), THESE
guys are asstagonists above most others in film history, I am going
to reckon. I know I shouldn't expect much given that the college
these asses go to is called Yellowstream University, but still...
To
steal the plot from the IMDb: “Set
on the quiet campus of Yellowstream University, this comedy follows
the rivalries that build between two of the college's fraternities.
When they're not mooning everyone they pass and throwing garbage on
the lawns of rival frats, the members of the Pi Kappa Delta
fraternity are mainly interested in drinking and... well, drinking.
When a campus- wide farting contest is announced, Grossout, the
leader of the Deltas, is all too eager to stand up, bend over and
defend the honor of his fraternity.”
Yes,
the main engine that propels the first half of this movie is a
FARTING CONTEST. The rest of it is random vignettes... and the dean
wanting to kick them off campus; sound familiar? Now, let me tell you
about the first few minutes of this bold-faced Animal House ripoff
where the Bluto character is interpreted by a character here named
Grossout Grumbowski and looks-wise was obviously cast because of his
resemblence to Belushi... over a terrible title song these guys drive
around in an old herse with the license plate “Hey 4Q2” and not
only do they drive the wrong way down the street under construction,
they moon everyone from college chicks to a kid in a stroller, preppy
guys to the president of the college, the shock of which gives him a
heart attack! And remember, you're supposed to root for these guys. What a way to start off the film.
Oh, and one of those aforementioned college chicks looks like a
low-rent version of Reese Witherspoon. There's someone who not by
coincidence looks like Tim Matheson did back in the late 70's.
The
other people in the frat include the standard black guy with an afro,
a Native American who looks to be in his 40's (no lie) and a
stereotypical nerd who looks to be in his 30's. They love drinking
Busch beer in a place that looks worse than that old house the Nerds
moved to before they remodeled it in Revenge of the Nerds. Various
stereotypes are abused in a rather juvenile way, from Native
Americans to Chinese and other ones. But the character of Grossout...
besides being badly acted (at least it matches most of the acting
seen in the film) is really a giant villain, even more so than the
other jokers you see here. I really hated how exaggeratedly
disgusting he was, even more so than the other jokers you see here.
He farts often and is just a slob of a pig. Not even him wearing a
t-shirt advertising the original Howard the Duck comic redeems him.
Among
the other atrocities from the asstagonists... two of them burn a hash
brick into the ventilation shaft of the church where the service for
the dead president is being held. Everyone ends up laughing;
HI-larious, right? There are forced vomitings, they bilk the parents
of a new pledge to get the money to enter the farting contest...
They try to run over preps. Yep, these are truly terrible characters
acting in a movie that is real low-budget and doesn't even live up to
that; this is pretty terrible filmmaking.
Despite
some genuine laughs and there being such things as a girl character
named Bucky who isn't so bad and you getting to see classic posters
from the likes of Frank Zappa, Ted Nugent and of all people Jim
Croce... this was a struggle to get through this South Florida-filmed movie. Your mileage may vary but I wonder why that messageboard person enjoyed it so much. Stick with the more famous raunchy comedy classics set in college.
I'll be back Monday night.
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