Dead Man on Campus (1998): Dir: Alan Cohn / Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Monro, Alyson Hannigan: Rotten comedy about two college students who are potentially dead men. Tom Everett Scott stars as a would-be scholar and his roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a slacker who never studies and skips classes. His father threatens to have him cleaning toilets if he fails. After a fatal night out Scott's grades drop so far that he needs an A+ in every subject. They discover that if a roommate commits suicide that they are given high grades. They target several victims for this nonsense including a psychotic, a paranoia, and a musician who wrote a song called "Sperm." Twist ending has these two morons getting away with crime. Director Alan Cahn fares well and can certainly handle better material than this, but Scott and Gosselaar are unlikable leaving little to root for. Poppy Montgomery plays the standard girlfriend who is there for potential sexual purposes and little else. Lochlyn Monro appears as a guy named Cliff and that pretty much sums up his contribution. Alyson Hannigan appears in an early role before she reaches her destination at band camp. This film earns a big black mark for its methods of using suicide in a loose manner that propels no humour whatsoever. Laugh-less vulgar insult that should flunk the screenwriter out of work. Score: 4 / 10

This movie had a very good storyline. It was just executed poorly. The actors were OK, but I thought Gosselaar was kind of annoying. The funniest part was one of the mental guys they brought in who thought Bill Gates was trying to kill him. He was pretty funny, but they didn't have him in a lot of scenes. I didn't think it was close to Animal House, but then again, it is just my opinion. I thought the ending was pretty clever and kind of funny. That's about it for me though. I won't say it's overrated like many other people, because it's just my point of view, someone else might think this is the best movie ever. I wish they would have executed it a little bit better, it may have turned out kind of like Superbad. As I said, the plot was very good. Just some better dialogue, and maybe different actors. It would be kind of cool to see something like a remake. But that usually only happens with famous movies. Anyways, pretty boring.3/10.

"Dead Man On Campus" is a film about two guys who enroll at Daleman College, and become roommates. Josh enrolls via a scholarship, and is studying to become a doctor, and Cooper, well, he's just there to avoid having to clean toilets for a living at his father's business, and of course, to goof off and party. Josh eventually decides to party with Cooper, and as a result, starts to fail every class he's in. He winds up failing his mid-terms, and he finds out that he needs to maintain a B+ average if he wants to keep his scholarship.One night, while the boys are at a local bar, they find out that if your roommate commits suicide, you get straight As for your grief, so they decide to move a suicidal roommate into their dorm! In my opinion, the best roommate they find is a no holds barred psychotic named Cliff O'Malley (played by the underrated Lochlyn Munro). Cliff is my favorite character in this film! He's so wacky, and he completely lacks sanity or a conscience! Most of his dialogue and facial expressions in this film are priceless!As for their other roommates: Buckley: He's a computer nerd who's paranoid, suicidal, and thinks Bill Gates is after his brain! Matt Noonan: He's the "depressed" goth rock star who acts happy and likes to sing show tunes when no one's around! In the end: For off the wall teen comedies, this is as good as it gets. This movie originally bombed at the box office when released in August of 1998, and seems to be forgotten nowadays, but trust me, it's funny, and the character Cliff totally makes it worth the admission! It's bound to become a cult classic sooner or later.

This film is one of the most underrated films i have ever seen. The film follows 2 roommates Coop and Josh and there plan to have a roommate kill himself so they can achieve straight A's. Although that storyline only comes in the second half of the film for the first half we just spend the time in college with the boys. The chemistry between the 2 leads is great and Mark Paul Gosselar sort of plays his role as Zack from SBTB for a more adult audience ( which i thought was genius), his charisma meant that I was never bored.why he never broke into the A list I don't know. but its all politics. It is one of the most quotable films i have ever seen,with so many great characters The comedy here is not for everyone but if you like films which don't take themselves seriously then this is for you. The soundtrack is also great and has Dust Brother as executive producers would you believe it (they did the soundtrack for fight club among others) The icing on the cake though is Cliff O Malley the insane party Animal who really should have got more screen time, he makes every scene he is in and I was just crying with laughter, he really is a match for Bluto. This film is great to watch with a bunch of mates I give it 9/10