'Sorority Boys' goes to the dogs
By Marshall Fine
The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News
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| SORORITY BOYS (Rated R for profanity, nudity, sexuality) One-Half Star (Very Poor)
Three frat rats must disguise themselves as girls and join a sorority to prove they didn't embezzle the fraternity's party fund. Naughty, but very rarely funny. Starring Barry Watson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams. Directed by Wally Wolodarsky. Touchstone Pictures, 97 minutes. |
Think of any gross-out comedy of the past 30 years; then think of any comic film that involves cross-dressing. Recalling those older films, even if you're doing it from a sickbed, is probably more fun than actually sitting through "Sorority Boys."
Directed by Wally Wolodarsky from a script by Joe Jarvis and Greg Coolidge, the film centers on three brothers at the party-centric fraternity of Kappa Omicron Kappa, which is across the street from the anti-party sorority of Delta Omega Gamma.
The KOKs are Dave (Barry Watson), Adam (Michael Rosenbaum) and Doofer (Harland Williams), the frat social committee. When they are accused of embezzling the cash set aside from the spring alumni cruise, they must flee for their lives and try to prove their innocence, such as it is.
So they disguise themselves as girls and pledge at the DOG house across the street. The DOGs are the opposite of the KOKs. They're serious, average women who resent being dismissed by the KOKs simply because they aren't babes or bimbos (though, secretly, they all wish they would be invited to parties, too).
The rest of the film follows the guys' wacky adventures in drag as they learn that — whoa! — the DOGs are people, too, and that the unexamined life of drunken tail chasing is not worth living.
Like "40 Days and 40 Nights," "Sorority Boys" seems to wear its R rating with pride — but doesn't know what to do with it. This is yet another failed sex comedy in which the humor never pushes the boundaries of good taste far enough to be truly funny — making "Sorority Boys" a movie for people who find the acronym KOK unbearably witty.
Rated R for profanity, nudity, sexuality
