FeistyUpper
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Raymond Sierra
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
vze3vhtf
After having to endure the incessantly clean-cut wise ass character of Mark-Paul Gosselar in Saved By the Bell all those years, I really did not expect to see anything different in this movie, or to like it it all.But in truth, DMoC is funny.The script is clever, and the cast, including-yes-Gosselar, really clicks together. I really don't understand why it did not do better when it was first released in 1998.A great movie? No.but good enough to be a guilty pleasure? Yes.M
wes-connors
Under the influence of perpetually partying roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar (as Cooper Frederickson), medical student Tom Everett Scott (as Josh Miller) trades in his books for beer and bong hits. After failing his mid-terms, Mr. Scott joins Mr. Gosselaar in a fool-proof plan to avoid flunking out of "Daleman College." The school automatically awards straight "A" grades to anyone residing in the same housing unit as a student who commits suicide. Now, the duo must find a suicidal candidate and help him over the edge. Prospects include daredevil party animal Lochlyn Munro (as Cliff O'Malley), psycho computer geek Randy Pearlstein (as Buckley Schrank) and presumably depressed rocker Corey Page (as Matt Noonan)..."Dead Man on Campus" turns a silly situation into fun college hijinks...The atmosphere and characters border authentic, for the times. The biggest "A" goes to Gosselaar, who is the guiding force. Trading in his "Saved by the Bell" blond hair-dye for dark, he is obviously schooled in comic acting. Alan Cohn orchestrates everyone well, and there are a couple of memorable segue moments; the transition from bed sheets to classroom is a highlight. Girls have little to do except remind us that Scott and Gosselaar are probably not having sex (with each other). In this respect, pretty blonde Poppy Montgomery (as Rachel Gilmore) goes to the head of the class... There is much drug use and dirty words, but little skin. Suicidal tendencies and the characters' actions are resolved in a positive manner, but without much depth. ****** Dead Man on Campus (8/1/98) Alan Cohn ~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro
Sandcooler
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.
rosadorico
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.