Cattle Call
Reviewer: Tom Leins
Issue 106 August 2008
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A date movie that should be dumped…
The Lowdown: Internet dating entrepreneur Richie Ray may be a wealthy, successful businessman but he is terminally unlucky in love. How wonderfully ironic… To cure his relationship woes, Richie and his friends Glenn and Sherman set up their own fake casting agency and try to woo some hot chicks.
Review: As enjoyable as the original American Pie movie was, it really does have a lot to answer for. A decade on, the floodgates are still well and truly open, and dross like Cattle Call continues to gush out and splash all over our DVD shelves. Creeping into view under the once great ‘National Lampoon’ banner, Cattle Call is a truly baffling waste of space. Cheap, amateurish and badly thought out, the movie resembles a half-arsed teenage project, right down to the enduring predilection for breast-flashing and nob-gags.
Novice actor Andrew Katos, who plays mischievous best friend Sherman, exhibits plenty of energy, but comedy bit-part player Diedrich Bader is out of sorts as freaky, put-upon buddy Glenn, and leading man Thomas Ian Nicholas is blandly disappointing in the main role. It’s all too easy to see why he still languishes on the shelf.
The longer the film goes on the more you start to feel sorry for everyone involved with it. The crudity-per-minute ratio is seriously diluted by the two-hour-plus runtime and the fact that the jokes are so shit in the first place that it will have comedy fans groaning in despair. Nowadays, rather than make their own comedies, National Lampoon merely buy up suitably vulgar films and repackage them in their own image. Don’t fall for their lame ploy, and definitely don’t go near this lamentable excuse for a movie.
FILM: 2
EXTRAS: 1
DVD Info:
Certificate: 15
Starring: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jenny Mollen, Nicole Eggert, Diedrich Bader
Directed By: Martin Guigui, 2006
Distributor: Momentum Pictures
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Visuals: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 123mins
Price: £12.99
Special Features:
Scene Selection
Trailer
