Dead Man on Campus (1998)

Fresh and Exciting

Brilliant and touching

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Josh (Tom Everett Scott) is looking to work hard at college, but his roommate Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is a hard partying slacker. Meanwhile Kyle (Jason Segel) in their unit is an angry maniac bully. When Josh's studies start to suffer and Cooper's dad threatens, they find a barfly with a story about automatic As for roommates of a suicide victim. So they go shopping for a suicidal roommate.It's a black comedy that forgot the part about comedy. The two lead characters are not the most compelling or likable. They're set up for an odd couple duo, but they aren't funny. They are not mean enough to be funny nor are they bumbling enough. It's a germ of an idea that never fully develops into something funny. Alyson Hannigan is probably the only funny person in this movie. In an aside, it is odd to see Jason Segel with his old girlfriend Linda Cardellini in this mess. And I thought they met on 'Freaks and Geeks'.

Ten minutes in you get the idea that this is just another guys in college movie.Yeah yeah,two guys and they contrast,they'll probably turn friends before I even fall asleep,and at least four other characters will consume one of their body fluids.But then it went into a exciting as well as disgusting new direction,and especially the bringing in of that Cliff guy added all the comedy this film needed.He can do more in five minutes of acting out not particularly good lines than those other guys do in their entire filmography.Also,any opportunity to make fun of goths should be taken with both hands. How can there be so many when they presumably all kill themselves? Something that is really too bad though is that the ending is ridiculously happy but I guess it fit in with the feel-good style they were going for.Obviously,this is still just another college movie with two guys and they contrast with a twist but hey,it's enjoyable as hell.

In this film two college roommates, Josh(Tom Everitt-Scott) and Coop(Mark Paul Gosseler), find out there is such a thing as having TOO much fun in college. And with Josh being on an academic scholarship, and Coop's father threatening a future in the family toilet scrubbing business. Realize there's nothing left to do but....that's right, get drunk. While in their stupor they enter a conversation with former alumni from their college. And are enlightened to an old rule stating that any student who's roommate commits suicide, gets an automatic 4.0 GPA. And since neither wishes to "take one for the team", set-out to find the most suicidal person on Campus.This is a great comedic film. While campy in some respects, there are a number of great characters especially that of Cliff(Lochlyn Munro)who basically makes the movie. And the chemistry between the two leads is phenomenal. Viewers be wary, though. This movie does tend to get less funny after the thirtieth time you've watched it.

I started to watch this movie not expecting anything other than a few laughs. It turned out to be a lot more, Hilarious is the word I'm looking for. Basic plot revolves around 2 collage students, both roommates, one is smart(Josh) and wants to do the best he can in his exams, he studies and doesn't party. The other(Cooper) is intent on doing no work, doesn't go to his classes, likes his bong and late night party's. Cooper slowly pulls Josh into his world of Partys and Beer and it starts to show on his Collage work. Then comes the wacky loophole that if they have a roommate that commits suicide then there other roommates automatically pass there exams. Now, Enter the wacky roommates, handpicked by Cooper and Josh, that are all "on the edge". The rest will have your sides splitting. All the Characters play their parts well, especially the insane roommates, but none more so than Cliff. He steals the show and whenever the film was getting boring and uninteresting, he would pop back up and bring this hilarious comedy back to life. Typical Teenage comedy packed with laughs but a rather far fetched plot, Cliff's wacky ways of dealing with cop car chases and putting out hair fires make this stand out above most.