"Hey, Reg, man, give me a beer! Getting’ cottonmouth. Reg? Oh, man. Boy, you guys man, you sure don’t know how to party, man. Boy, when I was your age. We partied, man. Well, talk about party, might as well get one goin'! "
The Story:
The road to Saturday detention Is a short one for well-liked goofball Dags (Jeremy Renner) and his best buddy, the drug-addled Reggie (Rob Moore). Multiple charges could be placed against the two right from the get-go, including driving under the influence, destruction of property, leaving the scene of an accident... well you get the idea. After "saving" an assembly from a holy rolling music group's anti-drug spiel, Dags eventually pushes too far and is caught red handed hosting a party at the principal's (Matt Frewer) house during school hours. Paying the piper, Dags and his class are forced to write a letter to congress as punishment due to their belief that the education system sucks. Only the smart girl, Lisa (Fiona Loewi) actually goes through with it and lo and behold, it catches the president's attention, they're invited to speak to congress and it's off to Washington with the biggest group of F-students, drug addicts, sluts and hopeless nerds ever to grace the seats of a bus!
The Review:
The Review:
A childhood favorite, National Lampoon's Senior Trip is a Canadian production that paid the struggling National Lampoon (if it was struggling then, imagine what it's like today) to use its name for marketing purposes. The bus ride of drugging, binge-drinking hellraising is "total destruction" and just when you think it can't possibly have another misfit, Tommy Chongs rolls up as a pill-popping bus driver named Red. As a survivor of the sixties, seventies and eighties party scene, to no one’s surprise he shows the kids how they did it in the old days, driving up and down the road with a big, old bong listening to Up in Smoke’s famous song, Earache in my Eye on his headphones.
It won't take too long to pick your own favorite character; Dags is the ultimate in cool, but the other students all have their individualistic misfit perks, which is my nice way of saying they're stereotypes, but fun ones. The fat guy seeks to score with a mythical beauty if there ever was one, a natural blonde Japanese hottie... from China. The slut? Well she can't find anyone to hammer on her! The friendly, horny nerd, stoners from both genders and of course school faculty members we love to hate and eventually hate to love round out a movie low on class, but high on fun. Just the way I like it.
The crew goes through every setback imaginable from sleazy motels, drug overdoses and accidentally setting fire to a politician's spy via a big fart into Kennedy's eternal flame. When it comes time for the underachievers to leave their mark on the White House, the students and teachers come together and speak from their hearts in a scene straight out of the eighties that shows positives in even the most hapless of characters. With outrageous antics aplenty and an everybody wins heart, the National Lampoon adventure may not be the smoothest ride, but this is one school trip you're not going to want to be late for! (Brett H.)
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