Friday, January 25, 2008

National Lampoon's Pledge This (2006) - .5 out of 5 Stars

National Lampoon needs to stop putting its name on such crap as this. They are basically becoming the Girls Gone Wild of film.

The story, or rather substory, involving the lesser characters, is okay. Kind of a "revenge of the nerds" for the ladies. And they were even able to get several prominent B level comic celebrities into the film. I was surprised that I didn't see Kathy Griffin in the cast. But this could do nothing for the shoddily written script that DEPENDED ON PARIS HILTON TO SAVE. She was the "main" character and the narrator. That is never a good combination.

The nudity, which you would expect from a NL movie is lackluster, even the sex scenes, if you can call them that, are simply half naked girls grinding around for the camera, instead of attempting to simulate sex with the guy who is in the scene with them. And those scenes went on for way too long, one scene had a topless girl sucking and fondling a foot for nearly 30 seconds, they’re supposed to be having sex! SO ACT LIKE IT! I had completely low expectations going into this, and I wasn’t disappointed, it was utter film refuse.

It's films like this one that tarnish the good name of National Lampoon, which brought us such great films as Animal House, the Vacation series, Van Wilder, even Loaded Weapon 1.

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