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This is not a good movie by any standard, but one amazing scene stands out for me. Katt Shea, playing the haughty rich-bitch character Margot, mercilessly teases Her hapless, hard-up boyfriend by making him kiss Her feet and ass through a glass door. It's one of the most stirring images of Female power that i've ever seen anyone have the guts to put on screen. But then, I'm a total perv.

It is understandable that many potential viewers of "Preppies" may think they will witness an exercise in extreme raunchiness. For one thing, the movie was a co-production with The Playboy Channel. Also, the movie was directed by Chuck Vincent, a prominent director of pornographic movies. Unfortunately, the movie is anything but erotic. Oh yes, there are several scenes of nudity, but the nudity only goes as far as toplessness, and none of the toplessness is erotic in any way. Also, there is only once scene of (onscreen) sex, and the participants in the scene are almost completely covered with blankets. But the biggest sin the movie makes is that it simply isn't funny. The actors are likable, but they say and do humor that is absolutely feeble. It doesn't help that the plot pretty much comes to a halt after the first ten minutes or so, and doesn't start up until near the last five minutes - the bad guy behind the scheme only shows up in both of those brief lengths of running time! Aside from the cast, the only other point of merit about the movie is that unlike other '80 sex comedies, this one hasn't dated as badly. Hope that doesn't make you want to watch this movie. If you still do, be warned - the DVD release of this movie doesn't appear to be an authorized release. (It looks like they simply copied a VHS rental tape of the movie.)

A funnier than average entry in the '80s sex-romp genre. As this is a Playboy Channel production, breasts are bared remarkably often, for no reason -- yet there's basically no sex, and the tone of the movie is actually lighthearted and tame (without the boobs, it'd be PG-13 for sure). The movie is concerned with the wacky hi-jinks and jokes that cluster around sex (a main plot point) -- but not the sex itself. (This is interesting, considering that the director and some of the crew and cast -- though none of the main characters -- come from the porn world.) The sex jokes are of the recognizably Playboy variety -- this isn't a feminist film -- but they're actually pretty funny and "knowing," and manage to avoid being cliched. See, for example, the three goofy preppy guys lying in separate beds in the same room, bombastically fantasizing aloud and getting more and more rile up... And the two preppy girlfriends, Margot and Trini, who, after spending most of the movie refusing to "put out," frantically begin "practicing" for sex -- lying in their underwear, gyrating their hips and moaning theatrically, etc. The uptight Margot, played by Katt Shea (later a director as well as an actress), is a high point. "Preppies" is good-natured fun, and the main characters are likeable: more than mere caricatures. (The pervert bad guy Blackwel is pretty funny, too.) It's not a classic, but it's better than many big, well-known teen-sex movies that had much bigger distribution.

This movie had to mark the beginning of the end for the Playboy Empire. The acting (I use the term very loosely) at the beginning of the movie is WORSE than a high school play. It does get better, but is still stinko right up to the end. You would spend your time much more wisely viewing these starlets' assets in the magazines they appeared in and avoiding this movie at all cost.

"Preppies" is a pretend sex comedy that begins with a credit sequence that makes you think you are about to watch a documentary about the exteriors of university buildings. This sequence features no music, just shots of different buildings and the scenery around a college campus. For a "sex comedy", which are, you know, supposed to be "sexy", "funny", or both at the same time, this is not a particularly promising beginning.

The only difference between this moronic credit sequence and the rest of the movie is that sometimes its footage shows interior settings as well, and this footage also has people, and occasionally, music. The people seem to be saying and doing things a lot of the time, I guess, but I couldn't really work out what.

Oftentimes after watching a movie you may need to look it up on Wikipedia or IMDb to find out about plot details that didn't make sense to you. "Preppies" is the type of movie you have to look up to find out if there even was a plot, and then you're genuinely surprised there was one. Apparently this has something to do with three "preppies" - rich college types from the north-eastern USA who are instantly recognizable as members of this subculture due to the tops they all wear tied around their necks - and a schemer who sends three women to seduce them as a way to keep them from their inheritances. Why he wants to do this, and how the seduction would have helped him in this end, may have been described in the movie, but I missed it.

Everything about "Preppies" is as listless and pointless as that opening credits sequence. The movie is unwatchable. There are a few glimpses of nudity, but nothing that would make it worth sitting through, and I don't remember any sex. I also don't remember any attempts at humour.