Metacritic Film

Sorority Boys

Starring Barry Watson, Harland Williams, Michael Rosenbaum, Melissa Sagemiller, Heather Matarazzo, Kathryn Stockwood, and Nikki Martin

MPAA RATING: R for crude sexual content, nudity, strong language and some drug use

Touchstone Pictures
Comedy
94 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 22, 2002

When three fraternity brothers get kicked out of their house, they decide to dress in drag and join a campus sorority -- the DOG house.

WRITTEN BY
Joe Jarvis
Greg Coolidge

DIRECTED BY
Wallace Wolodarsky

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

25 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 Entertainment Weekly
There are moments of real funniness in this smarter-than-anticipated goof-fest.
75 San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
This comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative.
60 Film Threat Eric Campos
If you're hard up for raunchy college humor, this is your ticket right here.
50 Variety
A cut above most youth-skewed sex comedies of late, with bouncy execution and an unsophisticated but positive gender-sensitivity message elevating a so-so script.
50 New York Post
Unoriginal but effective raunchy drag comedy.
50 TV Guide
All's well that ends well, and rest assured, the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags.
40 Los Angeles Times
The result is crass but reasonably harmless, although to hear one of the guys hold forth on how much he's learned about family and loyalty in just one week living with the DOGs is enough to make a person gag.
38 The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
The film's putrid sexism is subverted in a series of sharp and funny scenes that at least raise Sorority Boys to the level of "American Pie."
38 Chicago Tribune
The situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels.
38 Boston Globe
Crude, lewd comedy that makes ''Animal House'' seem wholesome.
30 LA Weekly
If only they had the courage of their crassness.
30 Washington Post Dave Nuttycombe
To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
25 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Somebody in Hollywood thought taking "Some Like It Hot" and "Animal House," sticking them in a blender and serving in Dixie cups was a good idea. That somebody should be fired.
25 New York Daily News
Recycles the most obvious jokes from similar comedies that preceded it, such as "Tootsie," but with the most rudimentary characters.
20 Austin Chronicle
The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor.
20 Salon.com
They don't even look as if they're having fun. Their stint as cross-dressers is simply an endurance test for them, and for us.
12 Chicago Sun-Times
One element of Sorority Boys is undeniably good, and that is the title. Pause by the poster on the way into the theater. That will be your high point.
10 New Times (L.A.)
Not only unfunny, but downright repellent.
0 The Onion (A.V. Club)
A shockingly inane college comedy that accomplishes the nearly impossible feat of being far worse than it looks.
0 The New York Times
A film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity.

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