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National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Voyage Entertainment

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 6 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.5 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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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  
WRITTEN BY: Gary Preisler
Michael Canale (story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Gary Preisler  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 29, 2005 
Theatrical: September 17, 2004 
RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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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.
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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.
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25
New York Daily News Robert Dominguez
It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.
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25
Boston Globe Janice Page
Put it this way: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers makes "The Anna Nicole Show" look sophisticated.
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20
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This is sorry stuff.
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10
The Hollywood Reporter Luke Sader
Cheap-looking, broad and ultimately unnecessary comedy.
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10
Variety Justin Chang
By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited.
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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.
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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.
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0
Chicago Reader Hank Sartin
Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.
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0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Less offensive than embarrassing, at least for the chagrined performers.
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0
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A movie so filled with contemptible, ugly and unfunny characters that it is physically difficult to watch.
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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.
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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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.5 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Roger E. gave it a10:
Soul-touching. Thumbs up. Hands down, the greatest film of the year: don't miss under any circumstances.

nathan B. gave it a0:
I felt completely betrayed by this movie. Super hot, bikini-clad woman on the cover. Kinky, disturbing, horrifying old lady sex in the film. Terrible doesn't begin to describe the acting and the storyline is just as bad. If you ever fantasize about your grandmother getting it on with your best friend then this is a movie for you. If not, stay away from this piece of garbage they call a "movie". Worst movie ever made by far.

Jordan N. gave it a0:
It was the worse flim ive ever see the story line was rubbish the acting was 4/10. this flim was really a waste of time and money.

tim M. gave it a0:
Atrocious waste of time and money. hollywood has a hit a new low with this sorry excuse for a movie.

michael w gave it a0:
Unbearably terrible. give it a Razzy for worst picture and worst screenplay. painfully unfunny. garbage.

Saul C. gave it a10:
WooHoo!

Jesse H. gave it a10:
Wonderfully funny and absolutely delightful! Glorious movie-making!

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