Miss Março: A Garota da Capa

I'd give this a 2 or 3 excepting that is has 5 or 6 absolutely laugh out loud and that's more than most movies. None of this is rocket science: two guys head for the Playboy Mansion to find an ex-girlfriend and have adventures on the way. It's all very silly indeed - but if you imagine you're aged 12 - 14 or are 12 - 14 then this is a not bad guilty pleasure. Awful in places, and in others a huge chuckle fest it really is not anyone's idea of a great movie... but darn, the laugh out loud moments are some of the funniest I've seen all year... and had been laughing when i remembered them afterward....

Eugene Bell (Zach Cregger) and Tucker Cleigh (Trevor Moore) have been best friends since they were children. Tucker has always had sexual attraction for women having his life driven by sex while Eugene and his sweetheart Cindi Whitehall (Raquel Alessi) do not have sexual intercourse waiting for their marriage. However on the day of their prom, Cindi decides that they should have sex. After the prom, they go to a party and Tucker convinces the nervous Eugene to drink a couple of drinks. Eugene is not used to drink and becomes dizzy, falling in the basement. Four years later, Eugene awakens from a coma and finds that Tucker is the only one that waited for him, since his father traveled abroad and his girlfriend has moved to another city. Further, Tucker is living with the schoolmate Candace (Molly Stanton) and he has atrophy of his muscles and incontinence. Soon they discover that Cindi is the centerfold of the March edition of Playboy magazine and she will be at Hugh Hefner's mansion in the anniversary party. Tucker has a serious situation with Candance and he needs to flee from her brother, who is a fireman. He takes Eugene with him and drives to the mansion to meet Cindi in a road trip full of incidents and confusions.

"Miss March" is among the most moronic and brainless films ever produced and certainly hated by professional critics. The story is politically incorrect since the very beginning. However if the viewer shutdown his brain and watch the movie, he or she will certainly laugh a lot. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Miss Março: A Garota da Capa" ("Miss March: The Girl on the Cover")

On the night he is to lose his virginity, straight-arrow high school student Eugene Bell (Zach Cregger) gets conked on the head, causing him to fall into a coma for four years. When he finally awakens, he discovers that his once-demure and squeaky-clean girlfriend (Raquel Alessi) has apparently dropped her abstinence-only policy in favor of a career as a Playboy centerfold model. His best buddy, the goofy Tucker Cleigh (nicely played by Trevor Moore), decides to spring Eugene from the hospital where he's undergoing physical therapy and drive across country to the Playboy Mansion to help the recently awakened young man get a second chance with his girl.

"Miss March," co-written/directed by Cregger and Moore, is another one of those seemingly limitless sophomoric raunch-fests that have been flooding the cineplexes ever since "Animal House" hit the fan back in the late 1970s. The jokes - which mainly center around poop and physical disabilities - range from the clever to the just-plain-stupid, with the ratio, unfortunately, weighted far more towards the latter than towards the former. However, almost in spite of itself, the movie still manages to generate a few good-natured laughs from time to time. And though he doesn't have much going for him in the acting department, Hugh Hefner does have a good time parodying himself in a cameo appearance late in the movie.

Critics tended to pan this movie. While I'll admit that the movie tended to lean towards gross and raunchy humor at times (especially the sex scenes, the "flasher" scenes, and the lesbian car driver characters) and that it didn't seem to be fit for all tastes or aiming for being a classic, I still enjoyed the movie and thought it was truly hilarious. What else can you expect from a movie that centers around Playboy magazine? My favorite scenes were with Molly Stanton chasing after the best friend after, during a pole dance scene, he instigated her into having a seizure with strobe lights and tried to pry her off of him by stabbing her in the face with a fork. Her chasing after him and getting the fire department to do the same were, in my opinion, the funniest scenes. I also liked the road trip scenes and Tucker's meeting with Hugh Heffner. You might like this movie. It really depends on your taste and "material threshold." Give it a try if you're in the right mood.

** 1/2 out of ****

This movie had potential to be a decent romantic comedy but too many poop jokes just puts it in the "Crass" category.

It was a pathetic attempt to shock the audience with its crudity.

It does have a few moments though. The protagonist Zach, seems to have potential to do better roles.He is the best part of the movie, but unfortunately doe to the poop jokes centered around him, the audience is unable to sympathise with him.

Trevor Moore has also done a decent job of playing the insensitive friend. What is really sad is that the director had come close to pulling off a good movie, but loses the audience due to a few really crass sequences, which were really unnecessary.