PIST-OFF

Student Bodies treads ground in a place ripe for spoof, the horror genre. And it is an early enough entry that it has most of the tropes down without them being overly familiar. The humor here is pitched along the lines of Airplane or Kentucky Fried Movie of throw a lot of random jokes in and see what sticks. But for reasons I can't explain the jokes don't quite make it. At one point a character hands another (crying) character a series of increasingly absurd things that the girl uses to daub her eyes. This is definitely ZAZ territory but for reasons I can't quite explain it doesn't quite land. Perhaps if I'd seen this at age 8 instead of 48, would it have got more than a knowing half-grin from me? Perhaps.....

i feel there was lots of potential here that was wasted but can't explain in what form that the waste was manifested. What would be really interesting would be a ZAZ commentary track exploring this. That itself could be highly worth watching.

This would be a fine enough B picture with an interesting albeit cliched premise but the run-time is too long. Imdb credits it as one hour and thirty-seven minutes, but whatever version i watched was clearly one hour and fifty minutes. Mark Hamill is always great to watch in any movie even a semi clunker, and his acting in this comes off as practically Shakespearean compared with the other amateurish actors. A buck fifteen would have been a better run time for this.

The plot of this movie is so convoluted and stupid it defies description. They took a buddy picture/road movie and threw in as many try hard non-sequitur jokes as possible.... and none of it sticks. Maybe if you can suspend any level of belief and truly embrace the absurdity of this it might be enjoyable, but for me it was a snooze fest. It doesn't help that jim belushi even at the best of times has an acting range equivalent or less than most hollywood animal actors and as much charisma as a cardboard cut out of his more famous brother. I just couldn't do this. At several times during it's brief run time the movie seemed like it was challenging me to try to make it through..