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Girl Fever (2002)
Underrated hilarity
I think this movie is woefully underrated! It is like a low budget, raunchy inverted-HIGH FIDELITY without the music stuff.
Speaking of which, let me emphasize -raunchy-. This is the type of movie AMERICAN PIE's advertising only presents itself to be!
To say anymore of the plot would rob the unsuspecting audience of the cultivation of a sort of geek emotion called 'this JUST might be a good movie.' Sure, it could have said a lot more with a lot less, but if your expectations are low, this gem will be a real surprise.
GIRL FEVER would play great to any audience of 15 - 20 year-old men, provided they are not *all* the sort concerned with the volume level of their televisions. Or that sort of girl, who knows these days?
In summary: GIRL FEVER is not perfect, but this movie should have its own cult following. (Albeit a very small one.)
Sonic Impact (1999)
Grade-A B-movie
Given its obviously limited resources, Sonic Impact does what it sets out to do pretty nicely. Which is, of course, to elevate the blandness of the "Die Hard" subgenre "...On A Plane" to new heights. Pardon the pun. Sonic Impact is derivative in every aspect, but proves that you can be derivative of the 20-million dollar big boys with a couple grand. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; take Sonic Impact as the most straight-faced of compliments.
Happy Campers (2001)
Existential Devolution of Humanity
Given the long and storied history of camp movies, who would have thought that this one would be anything more than a teen sex-comedy romp? Yet Daniel Waters lives up to the more accomplished entries on his resume (Heathers, Batman Returns) and delivers something else. What else? Happy Campers uses the camp setting and its inevitable sex as the staging ground for its characters to regress into a primal state of sexual savagery. Waters uses the sex to make an existential statement about humanity. In this way, the movie resembles Kubrick's Fear and Desire, right down to the fact that the characters are not actually characters but empty psychological archetypes.