Featured Actress: Diane Lane - This 1983 comedy, also known as National Lampoon's Movie Madness, was originally intended to be the follow-up for Animal House, but finally wound up released straight to cable years later, and now is out on DVD. The main reason for this appears to be that it is not terribly funny.
Three short stories parody "personal growth" at the expense of your friends and family (a big thing in the eighties), soap operas (always an easy target), and police stories (another easy target).
The personal growth story is filled with people that are so unlikeable that it's hard to laugh at them, and the other two are simply not very funny. Oh sure, there's some funny lines throughout this movie, but not enough to hold your interest for 90 minutes.
Thankfully, and probably because they knew they had a dud, the National Lampoon folks were smart enough to include gratuitous nudity in two of the three stories.
