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There are a few smile-worthy moments in this flick about four college students, their girl friends, and there adventures, but there's far too much dreck in between. I noticed only one truly poetic touch. Amy Smart goes topless for a few seconds. Well, alright, as an actress she has only modest talent, but as far as this witless trip story goes that scene is a sine qua non. With it, you have a few seconds in which a very beautiful blond California surfer girl is without a top. Without it, you have a witless trip story.
I won't even bother to describe the plot. It's just a peg to hang some jokes on. The jokes aren't very funny. They depend largely on guys with anomalous features, a blind woman, and an overweight black girl. Somewhere between Ithaca, New York, and Austin, Texas, the gang of four stop at the house of one of their grandparents. The old man can hardly move but he watches stupid sex movies on TV, takes Viagra, has a constant boner, and smokes dope. (Ha ha.)
The musical score is built around rock. That's pretty depressing. I went to school in Ithaca, too, and during the mid-terms and finals the student radio station played nothing but uninterrupted classical music. Walking across the quad, you could hear the same mellow Mozart sonata drifting out of every one of dozens of open windows. Now it's a cacophony, reflecting the state of the union, I guess.
The movie is similar to some others -- "Animal House" and the "Porky's" series -- that I found only mildly amusing. "Something About Mary" was much better. But this one tries to get laughs out of truly stupid gags. A man is caught swallowing a mouse; a fat waiter who is asked to remove the sugar from an order of French toast takes it in the back room, licks off the sugar, stuffs the bread inside his pants, and serves it again -- and the camera lingers on the dope who eats it with relish, while the editor waits for the expected laughter to fade. In "Casino," a waiter expresses his contempt for the customers by spitting a ginder into a submarine sandwich and it disgusts, but not as much as this scene, which seems to go on and on, long after the joke -- if that's what it is -- has been swallowed.
I bought this on a DVD. It's one of two movies. The other is "Eurotrip." I'm not going to watch it.
score 3/10
rmax304823 31 October 2012
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