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The boys of
fraternity K. O. K are at constant war with feminist sorority
D. O. G. ... you do the math. Three womanizing guys from K. O. K. are kicked out
of the the fraternity after being accused of embezzling money from the house.
They have proof that it wasn't them by a surveillance tape, so they devise a
plan. No, they don't send a couple of girls in to get the tape for them, that
would require brains, yet they dress up as women themselves to retrieve it, but
soon learn it isn't as easy as it looks. Homeless, they decide to pledge the
sorority of D. O. G in desperate need of a place to stay, but learn a lesson in
morals and discover what it feels like to be a woman.
I was pretty excited to see how the directors would handle
this, the concept of men dressing as women to hide out from someone is not
exactly a new concept. It was used in the short-lived eighties sitcom "Bosom
Buddies." Barry Watson (Seventh Heaven, Teaching Ms. Tingle) is the lead
character Dave, the one who has most to lose in the movie, hoping to land a
job with his father. He's pretty funny sometimes relying mostly on wit more than
actual comedy itself. His best scenes are with Melissa Sagemiller (Get Over
it, Soul Survivor) who plays Leah, the D.
O. G sorority leader. He soon begins to fall in love with her and learn some
valuable lessons. Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville's Lex Luthor, Urban Legend)
is probably the best out of the three characters stealing each scene with
accurate precision. It's no surprise though, as he does tend to steal every
scene he's in on the television show "Smallville" as Lex Luthor. He's hilarious
in this movie with excellent wit and dead on comedic timing. He's a very
under-rated gifted actor who flexes his comedic muscles in this. Harland
Williams
plays Doofer, the oldest frat boy in the house who often bumbles his way
throughout the movie and bonds with many of the women. I thought this played on
a lot of old plot devices from previous movies but still manages to handle them
well. Throughout their stint as women, they often argue about clothes, tend to
discuss about their weight, and at one point, Rosenbaum's character gets excited
about finding a dress which forced a laugh from me, making it all the more
hilarious. Eventually, each of the guys tend to get a taste of their own
medicine learning "You get what you give."
It's ridiculous to
think that anyone in their right minds would see these three guys and not know
they were men. They're so ugly and unbelievable as women that the logic behind
the entire movie is mind-numbing. The movie tends to sometimes rely too much on
toilet humor and sex jokes to force a laugh, but sometimes just made me cringe.
At one point, Barry Watson decides to take a shower while all the girls are
asleep, then one of the girls sees him, but has blurry vision because she
doesn't have contacts. Anyways, when she gets in the shower with him, we see, in
a soapy outline, an erection which wasn't really necessary to begin with. It
made me cringe in my seat from disgust. The jokes tend to be humorous all on
their own, but the movie shoves every joke in our face leaving nothing to the
imagination. This also tends to show some ridiculous scenes that might have
looked good on paper but don't translate well on-screen. At one point, Watson
and Rosenbaum have a fight with large vibrators which might have seemed funny,
but was just overdone.
This doesn't pretend to be nothing more than
it is; a very dumb sex comedy. You want thought provoking, watch "A Beautiful
Mind", but if you want to kill an hour and a half, watch this.
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