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Sorority Boys (2002)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:2
Rotten:13
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: A sloppy fratboy movie, Sorority Boys offers up a parade of gross-out gags and sex jokes, while insulting and ogling women.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for crude sexual content, nudity, strong language and some drug use
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Mar 22, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $10,185,819
Synopsis: Following in the irreverent footsteps of the Farrelly Brothers and National Lampoon is this farcical send-up of college life. Dave, Doofer, and Adam always lead the party in their fraternity's... Following in the irreverent footsteps of the Farrelly Brothers and National Lampoon is this farcical send-up of college life. Dave, Doofer, and Adam always lead the party in their fraternity's frequent and wild blowouts. But when their jealous frat president frames them for theft, the three are banished. Their only hope of getting back in is to prove they didn't steal the fraternity's treasury fund by getting hold of the videotape that will prove who did. But how can three excommunicated frat boys get back into their house? Dressed as girls, of course, at one of the house's many parties. The three wind up as new pledges in the D.O.G. sorority, where the unpopular girls go after all the other sororities reject them. But the hoax gets turned on its ear when Dave starts falling for one of his sorority sisters, who returns his affection--as long as he's a woman--while Adam evades the amorous advances of his former little brother and Doofer gets in touch with his feminine side. REVENGE OF THE NERDS meets SOME LIKE IT HOT in this slapstick, gross-out, romantic coming-of-age sex story. [More]
Starring: Barry Watson, Harland Williams, Michael Rosenbaum, Melissa Sagemiller
Starring: Barry Watson, Harland Williams, Michael Rosenbaum, Melissa Sagemiller, Heather Matarazzo
Director: M. Wallace Wolodarsky
Director: M. Wallace Wolodarsky
Screenwriter: Greg Coolidge, Joe Jarvis
Producer: Larry Brezner, Walter Hamada
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
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Oct 15, 2002
Reviews for Sorority Boys
Merely (and literally) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes, most at women's expense.
Whenever it realizes it's venturing into truly risky territory, it bounces back to somewhere safer, like the terra firma of conventional boy-oriented teen-raunch comedy.
To say this was done better in Wilder's Some Like It Hot is like saying the sun rises in the east.
None of this sounds promising and, indeed, the first half of Sorority Boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens.
Whatever the movie's sentimental, hypocritical lessons about sexism, its true colors come out in various wet T-shirt and shower scenes.
The noble tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in Sorority Boys, whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting, writing or direction.
Wolodarsky has made a film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity.
Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low, very low, very very low, for the masquerade to work, the movie contains no wit, only labored gags.
Even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor, Sorority Boys is a bowser.
The situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels.
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