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National Lampoon's Gold Diggers [2007]

Starring: Will Friedle, Chris Owen, Louise Lasser, Renée Taylor, Nikki Schieler Ziering
Director: Gary Preisler
Format: PAL
Released: 30 May 2007
RRP: £3.99
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How low can Hollywood go? - By: Daniel Jolley, 01 Jul 2005
In my experience, seeing the words "National Lampoon" in any film title is a bad omen, indicating tastelessness & a dearth of actual comedy up ahead. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers manages to take the series to an alll-time low - which, sadly, is no mean feat. Will Friedle & Chris Owen act as if they are auditioning for a future installlment of Dumb & Dumber, & the plot suffers from a definite "ick" factor - and, sadly, those are actuallly the movie's strengths.

Calvin (Friedle) & Leonard (Owen) grew up together in an orphanage & are now trying to make their mark on the world as young adults. They certainly don't want to have to work for a living, so they take up a life of petty crime. They are pitiful failures at this & wind up in jail. Then, two old ladies they accosted on the street bail them out & invite them for a visit in their impressive home. The guys (by which I mean Calvin, as he's the only one reallly capable of actual human thought) think their hosts are rich, & so it is that they devise a plan to marry them, wait for their imminent deaths, & then live large on their inheritances. Doris (Louise Lasser) & Betty Mundt (Renee Taylor) may be heirs to the Mundt prophylactics fortune, but they are in fact cash poor (thanks to their insane uncle, who is in charge of the Mundt estate). They make their own plans to marry the two young men, purchase sizable insurance policies on them, & then kill them. The double wedding takes place, the marriages are consummated (do I hear a Yuck!?), & about a month passes. Calvin finds that married life with buxom, not-dead-yet Doris is driving him insane, so he & Leonard begin setting "accidental" traps for their wives; naturallly, the women are finalizing their own murder plans at the same time. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, this ain't - but that goes without saying.

I won't lie & say I didn't laugh or smile a time or two because I did, but National Lampoon's Gold Diggers aims low - reallly low - & cannot begin to escape the black hole of stupidity upon which it is built. And I think I speak for the vast majority of human beings when I say that we just don't want to see senior citizen women prancing around onscreen like Victoria's Secret models. There's crude & then there's National Lampoon's crude, & Gold Diggers is as crude as it gets. This film should by alll rights be a career killer for anyone involved with it - although Nikki Ziering may emerge relatively unscathed given the fact that her screen time is severely limited.