I won't go into how the films with the National Lampoons names pale in comparison to Animal House and Vacation. Did some studio buy the rights to use the name on any "comedy" film they want? It used to be a very funny magazine. I can only imagine after stuff like this movie and Pledge This (starring Paris Hilton), Doug Kenney must be rolling in his grave. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd appreciate it.
shareI'm curious myself.
National Lampoon was a great magazine. The name was on some great movies years ago (you know what they are.)
Now anything with the National Lampoon name on it is like a big red warning label that says "DON'T WATCH ME!"
National Lampoon used to have an ok track record. Now, "National Lampoon's" is basically a codename for "low-budget, crappy comedy"
shareI was thinking about this the other day. I'll take National Lampoon movies such as the Vacation movies over this crap any day.
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Their lampooning themselves. Another word for Lampoon these days is sucking ass.
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"National Lampoon exists as an entity that licenses its name and logo to a variety of material created by other companies."
In other words, you give them some money and you can slap their name on your crappy movie.
They just keep the name so people can say, "Hey, those are the guys that did Animal House. Let's go see it."
Notice how there's always one critic who will say, "The funniest National Lampoon movie since Animal House"?
I don't even know about that. I think it's hit or miss with National Lampoon's. Sure, they had great movies (back in the day), but the same premise (low budget). These ones just seem not to click with people (then again, I don't even watch new Lampoon movies, so I can't have a direct comparison). I guess my post is basically moot. I just like to read my own writing.
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The same thing is happening with the American Pie movies. Granted, the American Pie series has never been as funny as any of the NL Vacation movies, but with all these new, straight to dvd releases, they're sinking below their already poor reputation.
shareWith American Pie, the original Exec Producers, etc. in interviews said they only committed to the 1st movie because they knew the 1st would be the only good one,and the story lines and flow would suck for sequels, which is why many of them didn't return after the first movie.
I don't even know if it is worth for some of these movies going straight to DVD. Who will by this junk? I don't think you can give it away. They did to American Pie the same thing as they did Police Academy and the Nightmare on Elm Street (which they were supposed to start re-making) and Friday the 13th Movies.
Here is what happened....
the name "National Lampoon" was sold a few years back... and the company that bought it has just been cranking out movies with the national lampoon name leading the title of the films with the expectation that fans of the tradtionally great movies like "animal house" and "vacation" would watch these lower budget movies that are quickly produced and put out on dvd starting at about the time of "national lampoon presents dorm daze" and continuing with about 10 other horrible movies.
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