Porn
’n Chicken encompasses poor cliches
By Ryan Ritchie
On-line Forty-Niner
Comedy
Central is usually pretty funny. Reruns
of “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with
Conan O’Brien” and “Office Space” are just
what people need when searching for a good
time. The stand-up is almost always humorous
and even the game show “Beat the Geeks”
is decent.
So who’s getting fired for green-lighting
the network’s first original movie, “Porn
’n Chicken?”
“Porn ’n Chicken” is based on the true story
of a secret society called the “Porn ’n
Chicken Club” at Yale University. Students
would assemble to watch porn, drink beer
and eat fried chicken, and then critique
the film similarly to the critics in “Mystery
Science Theater.”
The film desperately tries to relive the
magic of “Animal House,” but fails miserably.
Every college cliché such as dorm
life, slacker students and crazy professors
has been told before and in much funnier
ways.
Star Ebon Moss-Bachrach does his best Jimmy
Fallon impression throughout the entire
film playing Hutch, the overworked student
who doesn’t have time to have a good time.
Hutch realizes he may need to change his
life when his goal of attending law school
at Yale sputters away.
The things that happen to Hutch during his
transformation from bookworm to party animal
are so predictable viewers can turn the
channel and know how it ends.
Every move Hutch makes is completely scripted,
something the real Porn ’n Chicken Club
would definitely not approve of.
Hutch’s best friend is Quentin, played by
Alex Burns. Burns is the typical rich-kid,
pot-smoking life of the party that every
college movie has. Quentin helps Hutch loosen
up a bit by introducing him to fried chicken
and porn.
Angela Goethals plays Polly, the outspoken,
sexually open love interest. Her goal is
to get a human sexuality major added to
the school’s curriculum. Along the way,
she meets Hutch and Quentin and the three
of them, along with help from two others,
start the Porn ’n Chicken Club.
The club starts small but quickly grows.
Students soon need a password to attend
meetings due to high demand. Local media,
as well as school administrators, want to
know who runs the meetings, but can’t find
answers immediately.
The film would have been much funnier had
it not been confined to the limits of basic
cable. Perhaps making the movie that should
have been made and releasing it in theaters
was the path the film’s producers should
have taken. But because they didn’t, television
viewers will be watching reruns of this
until next Easter.
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