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Summary: I have never laughed so hard...
Review: The first time I watched this movie I laughed so hard I was crying. It has the funniest parts. If you liked Old School, Van Wilder, or Scary Movie 1 & 2, then this movie is definitely for you.
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Summary: Enjoyable enough
Review: The plot of Sorority Boys can best be summed up as: Animal House meets Revenge Of The Nerds meets Tootsie, plus lashings of American Pie thrown in for good measure.
In an unnamed university campus somewhere in America, there is a fraternity called Kappa Omicron Kappa ("KOK" - yes, we all get the joke) filled with rejects from Animal House. They hold wild parties where they invite the beautiful girls from the Tri Pi sorority. Any girl caught sleeping with stud jock Adam (Michael Rosenbaum) gets to do the Walk Of Shame the next day where she gets jeered by frat brothers lining up on the corridor outside Adam's room and her photograph taken for posterity. Ugly girls are not allowed, and there are special teams of "dog catchers" to roust them out.
Needless to say, all is not well. Adam and his roommates Dave (Barry Watson) - the "smart" one - and Doofer (Harland Williams) - the big and dumb one - are accused of pilfering the frat funds and are expelled from KOK by the snivelling president Spence (Brad Beyer) - who has a weird voice and pompadour hairstyle to give us a hint that he's going to be the bad guy.
The boys are in trouble, for if they don't belong in the fraternity, then they won't be able to attend the annual Cocktail Cruise where they get to mingle with ex-frat members (in most cases their parents) who have graduated and have since become industry power figures. And if they don't attend the cruise they won't have the opportunity to secure plum jobs using the Old Boys Network and they may be doomed to live lives of obscurity and poverty!
In desperation, they dress up as girls to sneak back into the fraternity in order to retrieve a video tape which may hold crucial evidence that demonstrates their innocence and identify the real culprit who have stolen the money. Needless to say, they get nabbed by the dog catchers and deposited in front of the Delta Omicron Gamma sorority ("DOG" - yawn).
DOG contains the female equivalents of nerds and geeks - ugly girls, big girls, girls with loud annoying voices, ethnic girls, ... The president of DOG, Leah (Melissa Sagemiller), takes pity on them and invites them to pledge with the sorority. At first they refuse, but then when they found out they get free lodging and food ...
The rest of the film are full of jokes involving the guys trying to act as women and survive on campus, bonding with the girls in the sorority, discovering their feminine sides, and finding out that life is not so easy if you are a DOG. All the degrading things they did to DOGs are now being done to them, especially when a young KOK takes a fancy to "Adina" (Adam) and we know that eventually Adam will have to experience the Walk of Shame!
I liked the premise of the boys discovering their female sides and what life is like for the other sex, and the film certainly had a lot of opportunity to explore some interesting issues. But no, the filmmakers have decided to go for the lowest common denominator and exploited just about every cliché in the genre. In the end, we get something that is tedious and disappointing rather than something original and witty.
What would have made the film really interesting is if at least one of the boys discovers that he prefers living as a woman (preferably all three), and then the rest of the film could explore how this affects their relationships with each other and the other characters. We certainly come tantalisingly close - one of the boys is on the verge of entering into a lesbian relationship, another has the opportunity to experience a relationship with a man, and the third discovers the the joys of sisterhood bonding. But just as things become interesting, the film backs down and we're all back in Kansas. Oh well ...
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious, but you'll either love it or hate it
Review: When I first saw this movie on the shelf at the local video store, I had quite a bit of trepidation. And yet, I rented it. Now I own the DVD, and I can't count the number of times I've seen it. No, it's not an original concept, and no, it's not Animal House. I don't think they're really trying to be another Animal House, though, even if they give quite a few nods to that movie.
What this movie is, is something light and comedic that you can sit back and enjoy. The comedy is crude at times but well done, from the play on relationships to a dildo fencing match.
As I said, you'll either love it or hate it. If you're the type of person who has to think about any movie you see, you should probably move on to a movie that takes itself more seriously, because this one does nothing of the sort. If you're looking for Animal House, try searching under "Animal House". Just a suggestion.
Beyond the mere comedy of the movie, they do actually have some messages hidden underneath, and we're not talking boxers or briefs. It's a common theme about gender perceptions, peer pressure and self-esteem. So maybe there's something to think about after all.
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Summary: Dim witted mess
Review: The makers of this drivel owe me $8.75. That's the money (and two hours) I wasted on Sorority Boys after reading a positive review of the movie. No, I wasn't expecting "The Age of Innocence" from this film, but there have been some "guys in drag" classics over the years and I thought maybe this might be fun. This movie is incredibly bad, I don't know where to begin. It's embarrassingly bad. Frankly, it's downright STUPID.
This is a Hollywood movie, so it must have had a decent budget. But being creative with money was obviously beyond the director and producers' grasp. The three actors in drag are so badly made up with cheap wigs and unbelievable costumes that you'd have to be a complete imbecile to think that they were actually women!!! I've seen community theaters do a better job than this. And all the characters in this movie believe that they are women; are they blind! Is it a star trek time flux! After all, the movie does take place at a college as opposed to an insane assylum.
OK, so realism isn't one of this movie's fortes! I'm still flabbergasted that ladies who have commented on this movie didn't find the cheap comic exploitation of women (wet tee shirts, ugly girls referred to as dogs, girls with facial hair etc. etc.) in the film appalling!
It's equally distressing to have to sit through the film's sleazy working of an audience's assumed homophobia. I wonder how many viewers stayed to the end of the credits for the big surprise cannibalism scene!!!!. Funny! No. Stupid! Yes!
This movie might have made a pleasant diversion with a better script and a better director. There's nothing wrong with the premise. The talented actors who play the lead roles must have had some inkling of how degrading the entire movie really is.
What's really depressing, is that many of our teenagers in the USA actually find this movie a worthwhile entertainment.
Anyone with a brain, avoid this at all costs!
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Summary: I have never laughed so hard...
Review: The first time I watched this movie I laughed so hard I was crying. It has the funniest parts. If you liked Old School, Van Wilder, or Scary Movie 1 & 2, then this movie is definitely for you.
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Summary: This is NO Animal House!
Review: Crude jokes and double-entendre are the back bone of this spineless "Animal House" rip-off. Follow the adventures of 3 fraternity out-casts who join a sorority (as girls, of course). Not since Boosom Buddies has "drag" been this bad. Uncle Miltie could "pass" before any of these "chicks" could.Typical college camp fare, yet offensively lame and far less entertaining than the established classics "Animal House", "Porky's" et al. For desperate High Schoolers only!**
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Summary: Hidden Positive Messages
Review: I remember this movie being heavily marketed on TV when it was released in the theatre. Sadly you can hype it all you want but a turkey is still a turkey. Some boys get unfairly kicked out of a fraternity and take refuge in a sorority across the road while they plot how to obtain the evidence that would clear their name and reputations. Along the way they alternately fall in love, bond with the "ugly" sorority and expose their fraternity brothers for being the date-raping morons we all new they were at the start.
This movie has a few good set pieces and scenes, but ultimately we've come to expect a lot more from the teen movie these days on the back of such seminal films as American Pie and Road Trip. This movie is sadly nowhere near in the league of those two. The actors lack charisma, the plot drags and lacks sparkle, and the whole concept is so widely outside the realms of possibility it just irritates.
The scariest things about this movie though are its social commentary undercurrents. Get this, the "feminist" sorority is full of ugly militant lesbian chicks who secretly despise themselves and each other and only come to believe in themselves by beating the "beautiful sorority" at Football. They seek validation for themselves by attracting frankly lame frat boys and are heartbroken when this does not materialize, ostensibly because of the fact they're all fairly ugly and badly dressed. Except of course the girl that the lead male character falls for who is actually pretty hot - once she takes off her glasses.
Tired clichés and Neanderthal thinking makes this is a film to miss.
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Summary: Sorority Boys--absolutely hilarious!
Review: I loved Sorority Boys. It was hilarious. I think I have seen it close to ten times now. Part of what makes it so funny is that I am a college student and can just see some of these guys up here pulling some stunt like this. (dressing up as women and pledging to a sorority) Some of the scenes are a little off the wall, though. For instance, what are the chances that only one girl would ever walk in on Dave in the shower and that she would be all but blind? Even then, I think she would notice that there is something "extra" there that shouldn't be or that "she" is missing something else. And what about the other two guys? Do they never take showers there? Also, the whole thing with the dildo fight was kinda silly. I doubt Leah would just keep them in a basket in full view--I would think she would get rid of them. And it is kinda ridiculous with Daisy and Adena fighting with them, but I suppose boys will be boys. :) It was still funny. All in all, I thought the movie was really funny.
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