Marking Carter Stevens' debut as director (actually co-director with Robert Josephs), THE COLLEGIATES is a tiresome attempt at sex comedy which might have worked with a soft-core approach and better casting.
Point-of-reference here would be the popular R-rated films of the same period from Crown Intl. Pictures and Roger Corman's New World, which despite their low budgets packed a great deal of entertainment value and which played endlessly at drive-ins.
COLLEGIATES, on the other hand, is rather idiotic and not believable on any level for a minute. Case in point; male lead is Harry Reems, long in the tooth as a college student. With the exception of Kim Pope, whose best work was in soft- core, the female cast is unattractive, especially lead Tanya Ticker. With jokes generally falling flat it's a tough slog to sit through.
Gimmick is that Tickler is a prude, and since the house where all the girls reside on campus has a lease in her name, she bosses them around where males guests/sex is concerned. Pope and pals devise a plan to get Tickler, who is wont to masturbate all the time, deflowered, and that's the movie.
Result merely points of the perils of overreaching in porn, especially during those early days when the feature-length form was just developing. All-sex efforts are appreciated on a far different level than attempts, like THE COLLEGIATES, to make a "real movie", and failure to deliver on the promise of actual entertainment is what we have here.
