Dead Man On Campus Critic Reviews
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Although it falls far short of fulfilling its full potential as a dark comedy of desperation, Dead Man on Campus is a modestly amusing trifle that merits a passing grade as lightweight entertainment.Read the full review
A predictably dumb movie made for very young audiences, playing to youth's love of excess and loaded with masturbation jokes.Read the full review
The bad news is that the opening credits, which make sick and darkly comic allusions to suicide, are the best thing about the film.Read the full review
As a satire of new-style collegiate types, this MTV production actually evinces a few germs of rancid wit.Read the full review
Unfortunately for the poor viewer trapped into sitting through this 95 minute mess, the humor is both conventional and unfunny, the script never takes any chances, and the ending is a cop-out.Read the full review
The overall premise, involving mental illness and suicide, isn't all that funny, at least not in practice, and the picture begins to seem labored and long. Read the full review
It's all handled so poorly that it comes off as more ghoulish than anything else, although those who find the word "bong" instantly entertaining and are easily distracted by the presence of flickering images may be amused.Read the full review
Under Alan Cohn's straight-on direction, the film, written by various hands, huffs and puffs mightily just to keep a strenuously labored plot going.Read the full review
