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Cattle Call (2006)

Directed by Martin Guigui

Comedy

Overview

A guy starts a fake casting agency in hopes that he will meet his soul mate.

Rated R | Length 83 minutes

Actors

Thomas Ian Nicholas | Jenny Mollen | Nicole Eggert | Diedrich Bader | Chelsea Handler | Lisa Arturo | Paul Mazursky | Jonathan Winters | Tanjareen Martin | Suzan Brittan | John Capodice | John Mariano | Rudy De Luca | Jack Maxwell | Buck Kartalian | Ada Tai | Dahlia Waingort | Ana Guigui | Corbett Tuck | Sandra Vidal | Laura McLauchlin | Mario Macaluso | Stephen Keyes | Melanie Pierce | Aimee Allen | Coco Konski | Josi W. Konski

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Viewing Notes

Another National Lampoon film. Let’s get the standards out of the way…Who’s the guest stars in this one? Jonathan Winters as a studio tour guide and Chelsea Handler as one of the lead chicks. Oh yeah, it actually “stars” Nicole Eggert and Dietrich Bader. I actually like all of these people.

Simple plot, as always….a group of guys decide to pretend that they’re making a movie (irony!) to meet hot girls. Thomas Ian Nicholas (who has been a regular in the American Pie films) and Dietrich Bader are two of these dudes. The first part of the movie is a series of videos where they interview hot girls and have them answer inappropriate questions that probably would only be asked to porn stars. It’s also where they’re able to fit in the classic Lampoon nudity where many of the women get to show off their breasts.

The over-arcing plot, however is that Nicholas ends up falling for this charming young girl who falls for their bullshit and then of course he tells her about it, she gets mad, there’s a too long court case trial bit and they get back together and it’s all happy ever after.

While it’s not a terrible movie and probably decent enough for a Sunday to have on in the background while doing something else, the movie is hindered like so many other Lampoon films…it doesn’t go far enough. You really want a company associated with wacky comedies that pushed boundaries for so long to do just that, but Cattle Call a movie, by title and plot alone could easily go above and beyond, is just castrated. The romance between Nicholas and Jenny Mollen is cute enough. I would just prefer if these films were less romantic comedy and more bawdy humor.

I didn’t hate it and I think the cast is solid enough but the plot tends to drag and it just doesn’t push enough boundaries. A similar plot was done much better in National Lampoon’s Barely Legal.

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