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Black comedy without the comedy
Josh (Tom Everett Scott) is looking to piece of work difficult at college, simply his roommate Cooper (Marking-Paul Gosselaar) is a difficult partying slacker. Meanwhile Kyle (Jason Segel) in their unit is an angry maniac bully. When Josh'south studies start to suffer and Cooper'southward dad threatens, they find a barfly with a story well-nigh automatic As for roommates of a suicide victim. And then they go shopping for a suicidal roommate.
It's a black comedy that forgot the part virtually comedy. The two lead characters are non the virtually compelling or likable. They're fix for an odd couple duo, just they aren't funny. They are non mean enough to be funny nor are they bumbling enough. Information technology'due south a germ of an idea that never fully develops into something funny. Alyson Hannigan is probably the only funny person in this flick. In an bated, information technology is odd to run into Jason Segel with his old girlfriend Linda Cardellini in this mess. And I thought they met on 'Freaks and Geeks'.
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A Dead Man'due south Political party for Marker-Paul and Tom
Under the influence of perpetually partying roommate Marking-Paul Gosselaar (as Cooper Frederickson), medical student Tom Everett Scott (as Josh Miller) trades in his books for beer and bong hits. Afterward failing his mid-terms, Mr. Scott joins Mr. Gosselaar in a fool-proof program to avert flunking out of "Daleman College." The school automatically awards straight "A" grades to anyone residing in the same housing unit as a educatee who commits suicide. Now, the duo must find a suicidal candidate and assistance him over the edge. Prospects include daredevil party animal Lochlyn Munro (as Cliff O'Malley), psycho calculator geek Randy Pearlstein (as Buckley Schrank) and presumably depressed rocker Corey Folio (as Matt Noonan)...
"Dead Man on Campus" turns a silly situation into fun college hijinks...
The temper and characters border authentic, for the times. The biggest "A" goes to Gosselaar, who is the guiding force. Trading in his "Saved by the Bell" blond pilus-dye for night, he is obviously schooled in comic acting. Alan Cohn orchestrates everyone well, and at that place are a couple of memorable segue moments; the transition from bed sheets to classroom is a highlight. Girls have footling to do except remind us that Scott and Gosselaar are probably not having sex (with each other). In this respect, pretty blonde Poppy Montgomery (as Rachel Gilmore) goes to the head of the class...
There is much drug use and dingy words, but fiddling pare. Suicidal tendencies and the characters' actions are resolved in a positive fashion, simply without much depth.
****** Expressionless Man on Campus (8/1/98) Alan Cohn ~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro
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A Sophomoric Kevorkian Comedy of Errors
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Every bit MTV Films' first live-activeness movie, "Dead Man on Campus" fails to brand the grade. This sophomoric Kevorkian comedy of errors about college education and teen suicide aspires to be another "Animal House," merely the efforts of freshman director Alan Cohn and his quartet of scenarists provide bookish. Rated R for profanity, crude sense of humor, and illicit drug usage, "Dead Man on Campus" is more antiseptic than anarchic.
Josh Miller (Tom Everett Scott of "Boiler Room") is a shy, virginal Midwestern honors pupil, who has enrolled in a 6-year medical program at Daleman College, an illustrious Ivy League institution. Attending schoolhouse on an academic scholarship, Josh must maintain a B+ average. Any chance of getting those grades vanishes when he meets his party-hardy roommate. Scott Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar of "Twisted Love") is a bong-toking, pot-puffing, highborn reveler who cuts classes and never hits his textbooks. When they initially meet, Josh awakens to find two college janitors in their room smoking Scott's bassoon-length bong. Coop enters moments afterwards, and Josh's best academic intentions practice a header.
Josh's descent into an orgy of drug and alcohol abuse seems comparatively tame past today's cinematic standards. Indeed, the guys burn hemp and guzzle beer, only their immoderacy lacks the apocalyptic excesses of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Somewhen, when he picks upwardly his Mid-Term grades, Josh freaks out. He has an F in each course, and Josh can experience his scholarship slipping abroad. Meanwhile, Scott's tough-minded father, who owns a janitorial business, warns his frivolous son that he won't tolerate his persistent bad behavior. Cooper has a long history of flunking out of one college afterward some other. Daddy hoists him up by his lapels and reads him the riot deed. Daleman College is Coop's final chance. Unless scrubbing toilets for an eternity interests him, Coop had better wise upwards.
At this point, Josh and Coop discover an obscure loophole in the college past-laws called the 'dead man's clause.' If your roommate takes his own life, the college will compensate the surviving roommates with straight A grades. The sick premise of "Dead Man on Campus" is an example of an urban legend. Anybody who would bulldoze a person to commit suicide only to boost their grades is beneath contempt. Moreover, inducing your roommate to die for you, so you can reach a 4.0 GPA is immoral, unethical, and downright selfish. The people who dreamed upwards "Dead Human on Campus" accept a wildly provocative premise, but their execution is hypocritically anti-climactic. Our protagonists (more than losers than heroes) never succeed in their diabolical scheme. Imagine the copycats who would test this idea. Happily, nobody commits suicide in "Dead Man on Campus." The simply thing worse than a comedy about suicide (except for the Burt Reynolds' one-act "The End") is a comedy where suicide is achieved. Comedies concern life, while tragedies deal with expiry and dying. Anyway, this "Dead Human being" tells no new tale, boasts no surprises, and its Kevorkian storyline qualifies every bit mischievous more than than mean-spirited. They had a great idea, simply they blew information technology.
As comedies go, "Dead Man" boasts fiddling go-up and guffaw. A quartet of writers hacked out this elementary but misguided yarn. Michael Traeger and Michael White wrote the cliché-riddled screenplay from a story past Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder. Freshman helmer Alan Cohn doesn't seem to accept a clue. "Dead Human being on Campus" looks every bit visually wearisome and commonplace equally its pedestrian plot. Anything approaching subtlety has been omitted. For example, the filmmakers never testify Josh's transition from innocence to cynicism.
"Dead Man" contains all the sophistication of a cartoon. Each graphic symbol is without variation a flat, 1-dimensional stereotype. Although the film provides a glimpse of the tyrannical professors with whom Daleman students must debate, most of the action occurs outside the classroom. Basically, "Expressionless Human being" has no principal villains in the course of head residents and/or professors. Incidentally, the only corpse on campus is a cadaver named 'Bob' in the anatomy lab. Altogether, this lame storyline is absurdly easy to follow as a sitcom. Virtually audiences will find it fifty-fifty easier to stay alee of the action owing to the predictable plotting. Sadly, "Expressionless Man" offers nothing fresh in the way of collegiate comedies.
The major problem with "Dead Homo" is it lacks the audacity to match its satiric potential. This feeble-minded farce spouts little trenchant commentary. Manager Alan Cohn and his scribes exploit the sensitive result of teen suicide strictly as a tasteless plot gimmick. Suicide serves primarily as a ways of deliverance from abysmal grades rather than whatever psychological disorder. Furthermore, it ridicules Catholicism. Josh and Coop's roommate Kyle graduated from a Catholic school, and masturbation is Kyle's favorite sport, fifty-fifty in the confessional. Bated from these few barbs, "Dead Man" tries to be as inoffensive every bit possible and merely looks drop-dead stupid.
Lochlyn Munro steals the bear witness as Cliff. Cast as a kamikaze frat boy who cannot get plenty sexual activity, Munro enlivens the film with his rowdy, off-color antics. Munro resembles a young, hopped-up Gary Busey. While his shenanigans brighten this otherwise bland picture show, Cliff alone cannot redeem it. When they first see him, Cliff is hanging off a ledge of his frat house, mooning the campus with 'eat me' on his buttocks. Josh and Coop hope Cliff will kill himself during one of his daredevil stunts. Cliff is so psychotic that they abandon him after he takes them on a joyride with the police force in tow. Luscious coed Rachel (Poppy Montgomery) finds herself confined to the periphery. "Dead Man" focuses largely on the friendship between Josh and Coop.
Ultimately, "Dead Human being on Campus" is a stiff. If you're hoping for raunchy "Porky'southward" comedy with naked babes, this lackluster idiocy volition disappoint you. Everything about this trite MTV comedy has been done before and done better! Rent "Fauna Business firm," "Back to School," and/or "PCU," and you'll come out far alee in the long run.
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Expressionless Picture in Hollywood.
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Dead Man on Campus (1998): Dir: Alan Cohn / Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Monro, Alyson Hannigan: Rotten comedy about ii college students who are potentially dead men. Tom Everett Scott stars every bit a would-be scholar and his roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a slacker who never studies and skips classes. His male parent threatens to have him cleaning toilets if he fails. After a fatal night out Scott's grades drib so far that he needs an A+ in every discipline. They discover that if a roommate commits suicide that they are given high grades. They target several victims for this nonsense including a psychotic, a paranoia, and a musician who wrote a song chosen "Sperm." Twist ending has these two morons getting away with crime. Director Alan Cahn fares well and can certainly handle better textile than this, just Scott and Gosselaar are unlikable leaving petty to root for. Poppy Montgomery plays the standard girlfriend who is there for potential sexual purposes and niggling else. Lochlyn Monro appears every bit a guy named Cliff and that pretty much sums upwardly his contribution. Alyson Hannigan appears in an early role before she reaches her destination at ring camp. This film earns a big black marker for its methods of using suicide in a loose style that propels no humour whatsoever. Laugh-less vulgar insult that should flunk the screenwriter out of work. Score: four / ten
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"Attempted vehicular homicide...whatsoever the f*** that is!"
Can a comedy be likable and dismal at the same fourth dimension? If your answer is "no", you obviously oasis't seen "Expressionless Man On Campus" yet. On the one hand, this is a blatantly insensitive and tasteless film, with some moralizing thrown in at the terminate, as if the filmmakers want to convince yous that yep, deep down within, they know that suicide and low are serious matters. On the other mitt, there are some laughs, courtesy mostly of the much-mentioned "Cliff" guy, and some accurate observations almost higher life. On the whole this premise seems amend suited to a thriller than to a comedy...I'll take to check out "Dead Man's Bend" onetime before long. (**)
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Was What I Was Expecting
I'yard not sure about all the detest, I have certainly seen worse movies. It was exactly what I was expecting. Silly fun.
Plot In A Paragraph: Josh (Tom Everett Scott) gets in to college on a scholarship, and Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is assigned as his roommate. Cooper does picayune work and spends all the time partying. The normally difficult working Josh is led astray by Cooper'southward lifestyle and spends the first one-half of his first semester partying instead of studying, and flunks all of his mid-terms. To his horror he then finds out if he doesn't score an A+++, he will lose his scholarship. Meanwhile, Cooper's begetter threatens to pull his funding if he does not get a passing grade this semester. They observe out well-nigh an bookish rule that says that if a student's roommate commits suicide so the roommates go perfect grades for that semester, regardless of any previous academic continuing. They set out to observe roommates who are likely to commit suicide.
Annoying at times, ridiculous at others and still it has darkly funny moments likewise. Particularly Buckley Schrank, a figurer nerd who thinks Nib Gates wants his brain.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar turns in a bright performance, that reminds me of Rob Lowe's performance in "Class" I enjoyed seeing a pre "American Pie" and "How I Met Your Mother" Alyson Hannigan in a supporting role, and her future on screen husband Jason Segel in a small role
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Don't pass this one up just considering Mark-Paul Gosselaar is in it!
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Ironically enough, Mark-Paul Gosselaar gave a hilarious performance in Dead Man On Campus! This is strange not considering he is necessarily a bad role player, but because the only seemingly out of piece of work Idiot box actor who is less probable to brand a comeback than Gosselaar is Rick Schroeder – I didn't look to ever meet either of them once more, and I STILL don't await to see Schroeder whatever time soon. Gosselaar excellently portrays Cooper, a college kid from a rich past who has no interest in studying (having been kicked out of several colleges already, only to have his fashion paid into other ones by his father, a successful businessman), and simply wants to party all day every day. I call back that the idea to cast Gosselaar in this role was an excellent determination, considering not only is it a unique casting choice (as well as adequately risky, given his heavily blazon-case iconography), simply too because he merely fit the character so well.
Playing the other half of the odd couple presented in this film is Tom Everett Scott, who is not exactly a tremendously highly-seasoned actor either. He is Cooper's primarily unwilling roommate Josh, who is seriously intent on keeping up on his studies so that he can keep a prestigious and hugely important scholarship. Josh is the straightforward educatee here, the Jack Lemmon of the 2 guys, if you will.
After having discovered the joys of partying, Josh scoffs at the hard-cadre studying life, parties a little too much, fails his midterms, and discovers that at that place is no possible way that he can ever get a high enough grade on his finals in order to go on his scholarship. Manifestly, at their University, it seems that there is a rule written somewhere in the back of the schoolhouse'southward charter that if a student commits suicide, that students roommate'southward will receive straight A'south, equally they are not expected to be able to keep up with their studies with all of the ache that they must exist going through. The majority of the film is spent watching the Josh and Cooper search the campus for people who look like unstable, and then try to go that person to move in with them earlier they kill themselves, therefore saving Josh and Cooper's grades.
Clearly, the story here is nothing brilliant. The moving-picture show is literally full of cheesy jokes and goofy situations, but information technology is still funny considering it doesn't pretend to be something that it'south non. There are even hilarious bits of dialogue that almost seem to be actively trying to remind the audience of the type of mindless comedy that this was meant to be (`I can hear my heartbeat through my penis!'). As well that, we are given a side-splitting functioning past Lochlyn Munro, an endlessly amusing actor who seems to have been born to play the nutcase that he played in Expressionless Man On Campus. This guy flawlessly gives some of the funniest lines that I've heard in a movie in years – `They wanted to kick me out for non obeying placidity hours? Well, they can only suck my quiet Erect!' Sophistication? Class? Definitely non. Tear-inducing hilarity? Absolutely. This is some funny stuff.
(spoilers) The film also redeems its childishness at the finish of the motion picture, in which Josh and Cooper'south plans to dispense their way into getting good grades are discarded and a healthier course of action is taken. It's amazing that a film that is dominated by this questionable plan to get direct A's is able to turn effectually and actually deliver something resembling a proficient message, and it is notwithstanding some other quality of this great one-act. Expressionless Homo On Campus has some of the same stupid characteristics of idiotic college comedies as American Pie and Road Trip, but it works on many other levels, and information technology doesn't cede its dignity to get a few laughs. Information technology'south a depression-brow one-act that respects itself, and that'south a rare quality.
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A tonally dislocated comedy that takes a toothless stab at subject matter that it's not surehanded enough to approach.
Set at Daleman college, fastidious medical educatee Josh (Tom Everett Scott) is paired with roommate Cooper (Marker-Paul Gosselaar) a privileged hedonistic layabout who's not even sure what classes he's taking. Josh at starting time tries to ignore Cooper'due south constant partying, but eventually finds himself tempted to engage in it. When Josh'southward partying with Cooper leads him to flunk all his midterms and run a risk losing his scholarship, and Cooper is faced with the ultimatum from his wealthy male parent that if he flunks out again he'll make clean toilets for his company, Josh and Cooper set out to notice a sucidal roomate so they can push them over the edge and "Pass by catastrophe" with guaranteed direct Equally.
Dead Human being on Campus was the tertiary film from MTV films following the failure of Joe's Flat and the success of Beavis and Butt-Caput Do America. The flick is based on the urban legend wherein if someone'southward college roommate dies, the surviving roommates are given straight As (which is not nor has it ever been true). The moving-picture show seems similar its fertile plenty footing for a decent dark comedy, but a toothless screenplay and overly zany and shenanigans based approach to the material result in a comic misfire.
Despite the picture show's faults, I really did enjoy Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott as the leads and thought they had good chemical science with a sort of odd couple pairing I could run across working in a better moving picture. There's actually some pretty decent work on brandish including supporting piece of work from Alyson Hannigan and Poppy Montgomery. The bug in this pic have less to practice with the cast (for the most part) and more than with the execution and script.
Expressionless Man on Campus is a dark comedy that feels like it's playing as a broad comedy. The movie when you step dorsum has an inherently savage premise with our leads trying to find someone mentally unstable plenty to be able to drive them to suicide. It's definitely an uncomfortable subject simply it'southward not unworkable as a comedy, the major issue however is the picture plays tonally similar a basic college shenanigans one-act when information technology's built upon a very dark premise that should be darkly comic. The motion-picture show tries to tapdance around its uncomfortable premise by making the suicidal candidates our ii leads meet exist over the meridian jerks consisting of jocks, paranoid conspiracy theorists, or self absorbed grunge rockers faking depression, but most of the candidates play their roles so far over the elevation they become grating and obnoxious. The movie is afraid of its own premise and doesn't want to make Gosselaar 's character "besides unlikable" and wants to position him as a "good guy" by giving him an antagonistic father and skilful chemistry with Scott but past positioning Gosselaar in this fashion the movie kneecaps its ain premise because it can't go all in with it.
Dead Human on Campus is the kind of flick that has a asset of a proficient idea but screams studio notes. From its overly goofy tone to a wrap up that excuses our master character's actions way besides easilly, Expressionless Man on Campus feels similar it might've made a fairly diverting no budget indie comedy if information technology were directed by someone like Neil LaBute who knows how to tackle such dark textile, simply because the movie comes to us from both Paramount and MTV Films it's obvious that in that location's no way a premise this pulp and uncomfortable could've been done justice.
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Mr. Personality
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Movies involving campus and academy are usually made for teenagers or young adults, since the thematic is basically parties, drugs and sexual activity. However, "Dead Homo on Campus", although using some of those elements, it has a different master plot. The idiosyncrasy of each character is showed all the time, delivering nice situations that happen due to the variety of opinions that they have. Josh is a real student, whilst Cooper is a party guy who doesn't intendance about studying and getting prepared to the future. The interim as a whole is cracking, with highlights to Lochlyn Munro, who portrayed a extremely funny character. I couldn't stop laughing when he came in the scene, particularly with all those unexpected screaming. The exception of nifty interim happens with Mark- Paul Gosselaar, whose job seemed to practise a footling... overacting. In the conversations scenes in the room, he seemed too conversationalist and gesticulatory for a normal dude. Also, it's interesting to find that, admitting American society wasn't that liberal in the nineties, they've displayed Josh and Cooper as almost a couple, and they weren't antagonized for it. "Dead Human on Campus" is one of the most developed films involving college that I've ever seen, and I believe that young audience won't discover it that skillful as I did.
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Go suicide
Ten minutes in you lot get the thought that this is just some other guys in college movie.Yeah yep,ii guys and they dissimilarity,they'll probably plough friends before I even autumn asleep,and at least iv other characters volition consume one of their body fluids.But and so it went into a exciting as well equally disgusting new direction,and especially the bringing in of that Cliff guy added all the one-act this motion picture needed.He can do more in 5 minutes of acting out non peculiarly good lines than those other guys do in their entire filmography.Also,any opportunity to make fun of goths should exist taken with both hands. How can there be so many when they presumably all kill themselves? Something that is really also bad though is that the ending is ridiculously happy but I guess it fit in with the feel-good style they were going for.Manifestly,this is still just another college flick with two guys and they contrast with a twist but hey,it'due south enjoyable as hell.
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drib 'dead' funny! [minor spoilers]
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In this hilarious, rough romp Tom Everett Scott is Josh Miller and Mark-Paul Gosselaar is Cooper Frederickson, 2 college freshmen who try to get their new roomate to commit suicide later learning that if your roomate commits suicide you go all A's for the yr. Of coarse, things don't go exactly how they planned. There are a ton of laughs for a movie with such a trivial premise. But like in most college comedies these days, at that place is the usual drug use, rough sexual humor, and profanity with the "f" word coming out of these guys' mouths every few seconds. The outrageous humor works so well for a movie that seems aimed at mostly teens and the cast is groovy, especially Lochlyn Munro as Cliff. It's lamentable that this picture show bombed at the box office because if it had made more money, I really think that it would be a cult favorite like REVENGE OF THE NERDS and ANIMAL Firm.
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Unfunny and Amoral
"Dead Homo on Campus" is not just an unfunny comedy; information technology's a agonizing comedy. The two protagonists are college freshmen, ane a spoiled rich hell-raiser, the other a studious type on an academic scholarship. Of grade, their lifestyles collide and the reprobate rich child wins out, corrupting his roommate. Before long they are both on the verge of flunking out, and their only salvation is if i of their roommates commits suicide. Then the survivors go a 4.0 for their grief. Since neither of them wants to exercise it, and they have an empty bed in their dormitory suite, they expect for a depressed underclassman to befriend, and and so endeavor to button over the brink. I believe that this is a very serious law-breaking (like murder), simply "Dead Man on Campus" plays it for laughs. And fails miserably. So not only is this motion-picture show humorless, information technology is amoral. It's too made by MTV…which is not surprising. Avoid this mess at all costs.
Also notation that the IMDb Plot Outline "If your roommate dies you become direct A's for your grief. Then a higher student fakes suicide and his roommates cash in on it" is incorrect. The two murderous protagonists want their roommates to Actually impale themselves. At that place'southward no faking to information technology. Funny it's not.
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Tasteless, simply and so are a lot of funny films.
Anyone tempted to look downwards their olfactory organ at the plot which trivializes collegiate suicide will non be able to overlook one of import fact: This is still a very funny picture show. Marker-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott play two college kids who spend too much time partying and suddenly need perfect grades to stay in schoolhouse. Scott is a financially challenged pupil who came on an academic scholarship. Anything less than a B+ and he tin can osculation that scholarship goodbye. Gosselaar is a spoiled, rich political party animal whose father threatens to cut him off and forcefulness him to clean toilets if he flunks out. After bombing their mid-terms, the boys demand a phenomenon. A local in a bar tells them of a loophole in the school charter that will honor anyone straight A's if their roommate dies. Since they have a spare bed now that their other roommate is e'er at his girlfriend's place, they decide to motion in whatever potentially suicidal student and promise he dies. Maybe fifty-fifty assistance him do it if need be. Whatever hair-brained scheme like that is bound to lead to all sorts of complications, and it certainly does hither. Near of them are absolutely hilarious.
The motion picture has several funny moments and decent performances. Mark-Paul Gosselaar has always been a dependable TV role player, and he provides several laughs as Coop. Most of them involve him agonizing his more than serious roommate who is always trying to study. Tom Everett Scott plays the straight homo Josh. He was supposed to be the next Tom Hanks dorsum in the 1990s. This has yet to happen, but he is likable and continues to work regularly in television. The chemical science and timing is usually correct on the spot between the two. Probably the next best thing well-nigh the film is the would-exist depressed British rocker they move into their suite because he seems suicidal. Information technology turns out this guy is the prototype of the word "poser". Lochlyn Munro has some funny bits, but he might take been a little as well much. Think that John Belushi was not on the screen every bit much in Animal Firm, and that actually made him funnier. Sometimes less really is more.
There is 1 hell of a lot of dope smoking and drinking in this film, but that'due south what college is all about for some people. Coop has a bong nigh as tall as he is. The film tries to redeem the ii principal characters in the last ten minutes past giving them a serious situation to deal with. Do they redeem themselves? Well yeah and no. Well, actually no. You lot'll have to decide for yourself. If anyone tries to tell you this flick isn't funny, don't listen. It IS funny. A gem from the previous decade all just forgotten. 7 of x stars.
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Amend than expected
Much to my surprise, this film actually wasn't bad. In fact, information technology had some pretty funny moments, which was a balmy daze. Things beginning off particularly well, thanks to some fun opening credits, and the first half was especially enjoyable. Things definitely got a little too silly in one case the roommates started spending time with the weirdest people on campus, only it was yet a fun movie that more often than not kept me entertained. Both leads played their characters well, the movie has a good pace, and a decent number of the jokes piece of work, so this definitely was a pleasant surprise.
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Marking-Paul Gosselaar!
Well, Dead Man On Campus stars, the brilliant Mark-Paul Gosselaar and I'm a MAJOR fan of his. (I always have been since his, Saved By The Bell days.) so I'm really pleased he stars in this cool motion-picture show. His co-star Tom Everett is quite good too. The plot to the movie is rather silly but nevertheless really good and the whole movie is just very enjoyable to lookout. I requite Dead Man On Campus, a straight-up 10/10.
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in the top three of the best college comedies of all time!
dead human on campus is very funny. the more than i watch this
picture show the more i laugh. as well the more i watch information technology the more than
i similar the characters. i think the more you similar the characters the more y'all laugh. cliff was the funniest,only
cooper was my favorite all around grapheme. information technology's in the
elevation iii of the best college comedies of all fourth dimension. but
null tin beat out revenge of the nerds for the best
college comedy. all in all expressionless man on campus is entertaining,and very funny. i give dead man on campus ***
out of ****
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A very funny operation by Marking-Paul Gosselaar.
Dead man on Campus is i of those movies that demand not be taken seriously. As with all Mtv production films, it is completely full of stupid jokes and played out clichés. Yet, in this case, the casting of Marker-Paul Gosselaar (Saved past the Bell) and Tom Everett Scott (That Affair You Do & American Werewolf in Paris) was a vivid choice.
Gosselaar plays Cooper Frederickson, a wise ass, no studying slacker who goes to college only to distance himself from his toilet-cleaning father. Josh Miller (Scott) is Cooper'south roommate who is studying to become a doctor. At showtime he is all about studying, merely very soon later on coming together upwards with Cooper, all those studying thoughts drifted away. Cooper and Josh party similar all the other 33% of college students, and forget all virtually studying.
After Josh fails his mid-terms, he finds out that there is absolutely no possible way for him to accumulate the B+ average to keep his scholarship. With the help of a patron of the local bar, Cooper and Josh devise a programme to move a suicidal pupil into their room and then that when he kills himself, they volition receive direct A's.
The picture show shows Josh and Cooper `testing' a few students and trying to get them to kill themselves. At that place are many scenes of this movie that had me laughing hysterically on the flooring. Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie & Night at the Roxbury) plays Cliff, a crazy, partier who looks similar he is about to do something stupid and get himself killed. He is and then funny in this movie!
I similar this movie very much, and not simply because some of it, the scenes on the bridge, were filmed near 3 blocks from my house in Modesto, Ca., but because it stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar. It is very unclear to me why his career has never taken off afterward Saved past the Bell. I hope to come across him more in the years to come. This movie should definitely be watched by anyone attention college and thinks that their grades are bad.
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oscar worthy
Expressionless Human being ON CAMPUS is past far i of the top 10 comedies I have ever seen. This type of humor is impeccable. Pure genius. And Mark Paul G was enthralling, easily mastering the subtle nuances of a stoner student gone bad. My God. I actually would like to sit down and take some beers with the creators. And, the guy that played Cliff. He should only play that role for the remainder of his career.
See this movie. And if you don't express joy, y'all're just not on the right page. I'm distressing.
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very funny
This is a very funny about two guys who are looking for a suicidal student to move into their dorm room, so they can become straight A's. 1 of brainy and works difficult, but his roommate is a pothead who never even goes to class. The lazy one starts to get the hard working i to follow in his footsteps, proverb college is for fun. They set out to find another student who is crazy plenty to kill himself, so they tin become the grades, since they are both failing past this time.
This is a very effective pic. Tho, the genre isn't for everyone...if you similar low ball comedies, this one will definitely work for you. It lacks a fiddling in story, it'due south mainly their quest to observe the roommate that will hopefully kill himself, just information technology's a practiced movie despite that...plus, in this genre, story development doesn't matter much. Both actors are hilarious....and the guy who plays Cliff is over the top and insane. There are a few other characters that shine equally well...especially the various "crazy" roommates.
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Underrated higher comedy
This film has not received the respect and attention it deserves, for unknown reasons. In my opinion, "Dead Man On Campus" is an awesome college comedy. People merely tend to take it too seriously and don't judge it objectively.
The premise might sound harsh and stupid for some, that of form is making your room mate commit suicide we are talking almost here, merely it is played in a very comical style and the picture show has by and large mild humour and all of that gives this movie an awesome, relaxed vibe.
You know what you are going to get, when you watch a moving picture like this, and at least for me information technology provided what i expected, i felt entertained and that is exactly what this film is about.
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Bang-up premise, bad film
The thought for this was peachy, the story was absolutely terrible (but information technology didn't demand to exist). The offset one-half was fine until they starting introducing the suicidal contenders...this should take supplied this lacklustre film with it's finest moments, but it only dragged it down instead. The pseudo problem rocker was O.Thou, the computer genius/nerd was nether utilised just the crazy guy was really abrasive. Watch at own hazard!
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A film for idiots. 8/10
I'yard an idiot. I loved this movie. Not merely did I scout it More once, I bought the DVD so now I have the benefit of watching this highly underrated slice of trash someday I want. Let me practise a brief clarification of Dead Man on Campus for those out in that location who don't know: An uptight med-student Scott (Werewolf in Paris) moves in with constantly partying Gossellar (you guessed it, Saved by the Bell) and starts to loosen up a bit. In the midst of all the all-dark beer blasts and sex, the ii offset flunking out. They hear from a drunk, that if a roomate kills himself, and then the other will be awarded a 4.0 course-average. So starts the search for a suicidal roommate.
Now the premise is nowhere nearly every bit funny as it thinks, but what actually gives this i staying power is its array of characters. Everyone loves Cliff O'Malley and his "I got some beers....Let's drink em'!!!" and who can ever forget the pseudo, British goth-boy Matt Noonan. His hairbrush scene is a riot and worth a rental in itself.
This is a no-brainer movie people and it'southward exactly what you would wait from an MTV production. The just thing missing is the gratutitus nudity that was so prevalent in the slew of college party-comedies of the 80s. What the hell, you can't have everything right? This one has almost enough laughs to make up for information technology. Call the boys over, crack open up some Coors and express joy your donkey off.
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MTV knows good comedy.
First MTV gave united states the very funny Joe'southward Flat and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and now they give u.s. Expressionless Man On Campus. Somebody at MTV knows good laughs when they see information technology.
Josh is a "directly A" student who just moved into Daleman College. His roommate Cooper shows him that college is all about fun. And so Josh and Cooper party until that leads Josh to bad grades. And then Cooper's father tells Cooper that he has to pass all his classes or he'll spend the balance of his life cleaning toilets. Depressed, the two of them larn that Daleman has a rule that if your roommate kills himself you go direct A'south. So the two of them get on a wild goose chase to observe the well-nigh suicidal guy on campus and move him in with them and push him over the edge before finals.
I call back the most interesting character in the movie was Cliff. He was played hilariously by Lochlyn Munro. You haven't seen a psycho if you haven't seen him.
MTV doesn't know squat well-nigh music, simply they exercise know good movies. 9/10
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what a motion picture!!!!
Mark Paul-Gosselaar shows that he is capable of starring in decent movies afterward Saved by the Bell. Cooper and Josh are failing college and find out that in order to get an automatic "A" they have to accept a room mate kill themselves. And then they await for a room mate that has suicidal tendencies and take them in. Their plans go wrong and expect to exist getting an "F", when a clever idea comes into plan. A great comedy and in many aspects is similar to Dead Mans Curve (1998), but this is better .... by far. A great comedy I give it an 8 out of 10.
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