National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze

PLOT:

Dorm Dazeunfolds during a crazy afternoon at a university co-ed dormitory in the days before Christmas break when one of the students, Styles McFee (Patrick Renna), hires a prostitute named Dominique (Boti Bliss) for his unwitting brother, Booker (Chris Owen), to lose his virginity. Booker prefers to lose his virginity to his long-term sweetheart Rachel (Gable Carr) who lives down the hall. Meanwhile, another student Wang (Paul H. Kim), awaits the arrival of a French foreig exchange student, also named Dominique, (Marie-Noelle Marquis) who speaks little English. As a series of mistaken identities and mishaps escalate into monumental proportions starting when Wang leaves for work, Dominique the Student arrives and is mistaken for the prostitute by Styles, while Dominique the Hooker is mistaken for the student by others including the two dorm gossip queens Lynne (Jennifer Lyons) and Marla (Danielle Fishel).

Other plotlines involve Adrienne (Cameron Richardson), who is targeted by the dorm geek Newmar (Tony Denman), with whom they had a drunken fling the night before. Adrienne tries to find a missing handbag belonging to her friend, Claire (Tatyana Ali), who is having boyfriend troubles with Tony (Edwin Hodge). Adrienne’s roommate, Gerri (Marieh Delfino), inadvertently gets her hands on another handbag similar looking to Claire’s which is filled with $30,000 in cash. Gerri is soon mistaken for a shadowy hitwoman, named Brittany the Snake, by a local gangster named Lorenzo the Black Hand (Courtney Gains). Elsewhere, Pete’s (Patrick Cavanaugh) punk friend Cliff (James DeBello) enters the dorm when Pete has to go to work. Cliff soon teams up with Dominique the Hooker to find the missing handbag with the cash while the token gay student Foosball (Randy Spelling) works his way through all the plots of this collegiate comedy.

REVIEW:

I typically go for films that are of the screwball variety, but this one just didn’t entertain me. With the name National Lampoon in the title, you would expect this to be hilarious, but instead it was a bad picture.

There are a few good things going for this film. Plenty of good looking women keep the make audience glued to the screen, including child stars Danielle Fishel and Tatyana Ali. The character Foosball is the most interesting in the entire cast. This film isn’t too long, so the pain is short.

The plot makes no sense. The rapid screwballness just doesn’t work.

I’ve never seen a dorm that looks like this. I know mine didn’t.

*SIGH* With all the faults this has, I think a second viewing may change my mind about it, but not likely. I have to warn you to stay away from this film if at all possible. If you must watch it, then wait for it to appear on Comedy Central or something, otherwise find something more worth the hour and half.

2 1/2 out of 5 stars