This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Dead Man on Campus (1998): Dir: Alan Cohn / Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Monro, Alyson Hannigan: Rotten comedy about two college students who are potentially dead men. Tom Everett Scott stars as a would-be scholar and his roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a slacker who never studies and skips classes. His father threatens to have him cleaning toilets if he fails. After a fatal night out Scott's grades drop so far that he needs an A+ in every subject. They discover that if a roommate commits suicide that they are given high grades. They target several victims for this nonsense including a psychotic, a paranoia, and a musician who wrote a song called "Sperm." Twist ending has these two morons getting away with crime. Director Alan Cahn fares well and can certainly handle better material than this, but Scott and Gosselaar are unlikable leaving little to root for. Poppy Montgomery plays the standard girlfriend who is there for potential sexual purposes and little else. Lochlyn Monro appears as a guy named Cliff and that pretty much sums up his contribution. Alyson Hannigan appears in an early role before she reaches her destination at band camp. This film earns a big black mark for its methods of using suicide in a loose manner that propels no humour whatsoever. Laugh-less vulgar insult that should flunk the screenwriter out of work. Score: 4 / 10

Movies involving campus and university are usually made for teenagers or young adults, since the thematic is basically parties, drugs and sex. However, "Dead Man on Campus", although using some of those elements, it has a different main plot. The idiosyncrasy of each character is showed all the time, delivering nice situations that happen due to the diversity of opinions that they have. Josh is a real student, whilst Cooper is a party guy who doesn't care about studying and getting prepared to the future. The acting as a whole is great, with highlights to Lochlyn Munro, who portrayed a extremely funny character. I couldn't stop laughing when he came in the scene, specially with all those unexpected screaming. The exception of great acting happens with Mark- Paul Gosselaar, whose job seemed to do a little... overacting. In the conversations scenes in the room, he seemed too conversationalist and gesticulatory for a normal dude. Also, it's interesting to notice that, albeit American society wasn't that liberal in the nineties, they've displayed Josh and Cooper as almost a couple, and they weren't antagonized for it. "Dead Man on Campus" is one of the most adult films involving college that I've ever seen, and I believe that young audience won't find it that good as I did.

Josh (Tom Everett Scott) is looking to work hard at college, but his roommate Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is a hard partying slacker. Meanwhile Kyle (Jason Segel) in their unit is an angry maniac bully. When Josh's studies start to suffer and Cooper's dad threatens, they find a barfly with a story about automatic As for roommates of a suicide victim. So they go shopping for a suicidal roommate.It's a black comedy that forgot the part about comedy. The two lead characters are not the most compelling or likable. They're set up for an odd couple duo, but they aren't funny. They are not mean enough to be funny nor are they bumbling enough. It's a germ of an idea that never fully develops into something funny. Alyson Hannigan is probably the only funny person in this movie. In an aside, it is odd to see Jason Segel with his old girlfriend Linda Cardellini in this mess. And I thought they met on 'Freaks and Geeks'.

This film had some funny lines in it, but for the most part is one of those films you won't remember any of the lines from the next day, and a month later will have you wondering if you saw it or not at the video store. Some of the funny scenes were likely unintentional, such as having a bunch of actors nearing 30 playing 18 year olds. One of them even gets carded at a bar and pulls out a long succession of fake ID yet it is obvious he is over 21. Probably the funniest scenes involved the crazy roommate, such as when he pulls out a gun and starts shooting at the police during a high speed chase, "They hate it when you do this". But other than that, it was a good idea wasted on a boring script.It has it's moments, so it is a good time waster. But it is no where near as funny as other College movies such as Animal House. The jokes often seem tired and overdone, there was very little unexpected humour. Many of the lines are telegraphed from a mile away. Ho hum, not really a bad movie, just not a memorable one.R.