Review: ‘Total Frat Movie’ is a totally bad movie

It’s a rare film that can dredge up nostalgic fondness for 2002’s awful “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder,” but “Total Frat Movie” manages to rise to the dubious occasion.

The second of two releases this weekend concerned with white frat boys behaving badly (the other is the more serious-minded “Goat”), this wildly unfunny gross-out comedy concerns the efforts of a fraternity at the fictional Mason Dixon University to get its charter reinstated three years after it was revoked.

Not that plot would matter to a young male audience expected to be distracted by the bevy of objectified females who parade around topless or are categorized as either nasty or evil.

Ostensibly taking its inspiration from a popular college lifestyle website, the film was shot in Toronto by veteran music video director Warren P. Sonoda with Canadian tax breaks.

Speaking of Canadians, the presence of comedian Tom Green as the college’s kooky Dean Kravitz offers the sobering reminder that even as bad as “Total Frat Movie” gets, it still falls short of being “Freddy Got Fingered” bad.

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‘Total Frat Movie’

Not rated

Running time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Playing: Laemmle’s NoHo, North Hollywood

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