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SORORITY BOYS

In this collegiate romp, three sexist pigs walk a mile in high heels and in the process become sensitized to the female condition. The plot is chock-full of stereotypes. Our trio of sure-fire frat boys from Kappa Omega Kappa (i.e., "cock") make women do the walk of shame after an evening's tussle and grenade-launch dildos into the feminist house (Delta Omicron Gamma, or DOG) across the way. Then they get framed for embezzling social funds and must hide out in drag while trying to clear their good names. Adam/Adina (Michael Rosenbaum looking like a young Chevy Chase) gets zapped with a date-rape drug by a fellow KOK; meanwhile the all-too-pretty Dave/Daisy (Barry Watson) falls for an arch-feminist (a spunky but improbable Melissa Sagemiller), and Doofer/Roberta (Harland Williams), KOK's resident boozer, teaches the introverted girls of DOG how to have a good time.

The cast rolls with the cross-dressing gags, and the direction by Wallace Wolodarsky, though whimsical, is shutterbug-paced. Sorority Boys is a one-note comedy that gets surprising mileage out of its sophomoric plugs, especially the full-contact, all-girl football game between the DOGs and the buxom Tri-Pies. At the Entertainment, Flagship, Holiday, Hoyts Providence 16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.

By Tom Meek

Issue Date: March 22 - 28, 2002