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National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Voyage Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and some drug related material
Starring
Will Friedle,
Chris Owen,
Louise Lasser,
Renée Taylor,
Nikki Schieler Ziering,
and
John Paul Lubran
National Lampoon breaks new comedic ground as it explores the misadventures of two completely incompetent con men who, in desperation, turn their attention to the art of gold digging. (Voyage Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gary Preisler
Michael Canale (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gary Preisler
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 29, 2005
Theatrical: September 17, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
87 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Originally titled Lady Killers, this rancid, underlit B-movie aspires to little more than cheap laughs eked out of the discomfort and queasiness Owen and Friedle feel over sexually servicing assertive, kinky old women.

25
Chicago Tribune
Achy Obejas
For the most part, The Gold Diggers is not even chuckle-producing. At best, it might warm a cockle or two or provoke a bit of a smile.

25
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.

25
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Put it this way: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers makes "The Anna Nicole Show" look sophisticated.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This is sorry stuff.

10
The Hollywood Reporter
Luke Sader
Cheap-looking, broad and ultimately unnecessary comedy.

10
Variety
Justin Chang
By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited.

10
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's.

0
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
So stupefyingly hideous that after watching it, you'll need to bathe in 10 gallons of disinfectant, get a full-body scrub and shampoo with vinegar to remove the scummy residue that remains.

0
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.

0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Less offensive than embarrassing, at least for the chagrined performers.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A movie so filled with contemptible, ugly and unfunny characters that it is physically difficult to watch.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Certainly the most painfully unfunny of the countless bad movies that have licensed the name of the long-defunct humor magazine.

0
LA Weekly
Tim Appelo
A May-September sex farce so prodigiously unintriguing that audiences could be forgiven for stampeding from theaters to strangle its writer-director, Gary Preisler, in his sleep.


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