National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2003)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is the most awful film I have ever seen.Here in Denmark, where I'm from it called "Golddiggers", at the cover of the DVD-box you see "Shermanator" from American Pie and some other guy.. And a lot of Hot chicks. In the movie you see 2 Z-list actors read some bad jokes, while trying to score some seriously old females.This movie is worse than bad and the cover is more than just plain misleading. Go walk your dog or make love to your girlfriend instead of wasting time at this.If you are a really really really lousy actor, then see this film and get some confidence.. !! :D

National Lampoon's has been around a long time. Animal House, the vacation series, perhaps even Van Wilder was when National Lampoon films were on top and raked in the cash. Now they seem to hit below the belt with cheap straight to video films that are usually a home for TV actors and actress' to go to make some cash. Kudos to them. Doesn't make them less funny just less popular. GoldDiggers or LadyKiller as it's known on IMDb was a cheap, slapstick, good for a chuckle, a little comedy. It won't blow anyone away or stick around for classics reruns.The story goes like this...two best friends who grew up in an orphanage together and basically continually get handed a bad dose of bad luck in life try and come up with a scheme to change their luck. After their first couple of ideas turn out very badly, they find themselves in the company of two older ladies who appear to be very wealthy. The brainier leader of the two friends, Cal, hatches a plan to marry the two sisters and when the croak they will be heirs to all their money. Unfortunately what they don't know is that the two sisters don't have a penny. Their Uncle stole their entire fortune from them and now they are plotting to marry the two friends, insure them and then kill them. So the two pairs secretly set traps to try and knock off the other two. Unfortunately they all backfire and end up taking the wrong victims. Finally in a last ditch effort all four of them try to blast each other and discover that they are all trying to kill each other. After that the four of them hatch an all new plan as a team to break into their Uncle's mansion and steal back the sisters' family fortune.There are some really funny knee slapper moments at the start of the film and then a real lag in the middle. The true heart of the movie comes when the two sisters played by Louise Lasser and Renee Taylor, team up with their much younger husbands played by Will Friedle and Chris Owen. The four of them make a hilarious comedy team and all of them are actually quite talented comedians. Will Friedle is a far cry from his Boy Meets World (horribly annoying) character and he's actually funny and his comedy is well timed and his expressions are classic. Teamed up with Chris Owen, The Shermenator from the American Pie Series, you have a comedy team genius...for a low budget film. Despite the few humorous sexual scenes with the elderly ladies, the jokes stay remarkably out of the toilet which is unusual for a comedy let alone a National Lampoon's comedy. They also force and I mean brutal force the Lampoon's necessary breast shots into the film...they have no bearing on the film and yet they manage to write it in. They stick out...and not in a good way. Nonetheless it's not a bad film and probably worth seeing if you're just looking for a stupid, fun movie. Averagely done. 5/10

I thought this movie was witty when they weren't gratuitously attempting levity. I laughed my @$$ off sometimes, but yes I can see how this movie would be agonizing for many people, but it was in no way as horrific as many recent lapses in film-making, and a lot of those weren't panned by "critics".The casting left a lot to be desired, but Will Friedle (I wish I could move my eyebrows independently, very effective) clearly stands out from the rest in this movie, as does Chris Owen.I know a lot of "critics" panned this one, "Too juvenile/stupid." "a horrific piece of film-vomit." I admit it's not a buzz-worthy masterpiece, but not all movies are aimed at Oscar glory. Most movies are supposed to be entertaining breaks from reality. Some people like em, some people don't; movie critics seem to have forgotten that, and try to force overly-critical opinions down our throats.

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two 70-year-old sisters, Betty Mundt (Renee Taylor) and Doris Mundt (Louise Lasser). The two sisters beat the two young men up, and send them to jail. The ladies drop the charges, and invite the jailbirds to their Beverly Hills mansion. Cal gets an idea that they could marry the women for their money and live the good life. Hopefully, they will only live 6-months and at most one-year. It turns out that Betty and Doris are broke, and they have come up with a plan to marry the boys, kill them, and collect the life insurance money. After several unsuccessful murder attempts on each other, they join forces to rob Betty and Doris's rich uncle. This film is funny, and you will laugh through the entire movie. One of the funniest scenes is what the women are wearing as they walk down the staircase to meet Call and Lenny. (Delfino Entertainment, Run time 1:27, Rated PG-13) (5/10)