National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)

From the geniuses at National Lampoon comes a comedy that pushes all the boundaries! Will Friedle ("Boy Meets World") Chris Owen (American Pie) and Nikki Ziering (American Wedding) star in this raucously funny film that critics are calling "raunchy" (The Hollywood Reporter) "offensive" (The Washington Post) "tasteless" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and "ultra-crass" (The Boston Globe)!Would-be babe magnets Calvin and Leonard (Friedle and Owen) thought that the only way they could ever get girls was by getting rich by getting hitched to the elderly! And now that they ve waltzed down the aisle with two giddy biddies can these two gold diggers achieve their American Dream? Or have they just dug themselves into a corpulent nightmare?SPECIAL FEATURES:Unrated Bloopers Nikki Ziering Bloopers Deleted Scenes Alternate Beginning Alternate Endings Nikki Ziering s Gold-Digging Tips for Men Nikki Ziering s Gold-Digging Tips for Ladies Lenny & Cal s Gold-Digging Tips Nikki Ziering: Backstage at the Gold Diggers Photo Shoot Original Theatrical TrailerSystem Requirements: Running Time 87 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: UNRATED UPC: 027616924452 Manufacturer No: 1008416 Product Description

Fabulous movie!

This movie is VERY funny - I love it! I did get the unrated version, and wish I had gotten the rated version instead (the flashes of the gal unclothed are a little too much). I understand that some may not like it, but if you liked Dumb and Dumber, you WILL like this movie! Watch this movie with the expectation of ridiculous situational comedy and unbelievable human behavior, and you will like it! December 30, 2007

Totally different than Expected?!?!

i tot this would be a good or atleast decent movie and would have a few hotties lyk the one in the front of the dvd but she wasnt even shown that much & the story line and plot wasnt good at all! I do not recommend purchasing this movie at all. waste of ur money i gave it a 2star cuz of the gurl September 9, 2007

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Obviously I knew going in that this movie wasn't going to offer anything more than light low-brow entertainment, but it falls below average for it's niche. Even low-brow humour requires some degree of subtlety and context to work, and those things seem mostly absent in this movie. It's also disappointingly uneventful, so much of the movie is set in the one house where not much progresses. I was hoping the guys' schemes would involve some detours to introduce additional environments and characters, but it never happened. The movie is generally pretty dark too, drawing a lot of it's gags from murder attempts. I guess it's a black comedy, but it's not marketed as such. I think it's inconsistent about what it wants to be. Trust the 7 out of 9 negative reviews on this site and don't waste your time with this movie, unless you enjoyed Big Momma's House.
March 19, 2006

How low can Hollywood go?

In my experience, seeing the words "National Lampoon" in any film title is a bad omen, indicating tastelessness and a dearth of actual comedy up ahead. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers manages to take the series to an all-time low - which, sadly, is no mean feat. Will Friedle and Chris Owen act as if they are auditioning for a future installment of Dumb and Dumber, and the plot suffers from a definite "ick" factor - and, sadly, those are actually the movie's strengths.

Calvin (Friedle) and Leonard (Owen) grew up together in an orphanage and are now trying to make their mark on the world as young adults. They certainly don't want to have to work for a living, so they take up a life of petty crime. They are pitiful failures at this and wind up in jail. Then, two old ladies they accosted on the street bail them out and invite them for a visit in their impressive home. The guys (by which I mean Calvin, as he's the only one really capable of actual human thought) think their hosts are rich, and so it is that they devise a plan to marry them, wait for their imminent deaths, and then live large on their inheritances. Doris (Louise Lasser) and Betty Mundt (Renee Taylor) may be heirs to the Mundt prophylactics fortune, but they are in fact cash poor (thanks to their insane uncle, who is in charge of the Mundt estate). They make their own plans to marry the two young men, purchase sizable insurance policies on them, and then kill them. The double wedding takes place, the marriages are consummated (do I hear a Yuck!?), and about a month passes. Calvin finds that married life with buxom, not-dead-yet Doris is driving him insane, so he and Leonard begin setting "accidental" traps for their wives; naturally, the women are finalizing their own murder plans at the same time. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, this ain't - but that goes without saying.

I won't lie and say I didn't laugh or smile a time or two because I did, but National Lampoon's Gold Diggers aims low - really low - and cannot begin to escape the black hole of stupidity upon which it is built. And I think I speak for the vast majority of human beings when I say that we just don't want to see senior citizen women prancing around onscreen like Victoria's Secret models. There's crude and then there's National Lampoon's crude, and Gold Diggers is as crude as it gets. This film should by all rights be a career killer for anyone involved with it - although Nikki Ziering may emerge relatively unscathed given the fact that her screen time is severely limited. July 1, 2005

Nasty for a kid

Okay this was funny, but this was so not fgor kids under 15. I have to say it was funny, but really not for children. I`m ten and I just saw this because of my hard work in this concert and I got to pick out a movie and my dad would wrap it up and give it to me, so I wanted this movie because I saw the previews on demand for the unrated one so I got this because the previews looked ok and funny, but this is so disgusting and not for children so I just turned it off and I really want to return it. Please don`t let you child watch this or children under 15 you really don`t want to gross yourselves out on watching this movie. It may look funny, but take my, a ten year olds advice, don`t see it. I`d give it 2 1/2 stars June 16, 2005

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