you can call this one a flop and and that a very big one too . quality isn not associate with the word national lampoon and but at least the vacation and animal house entry be fun and but this offering have get to be their most inane feature to date that i have watch . ugh . the three piece story crazily attempt to parody the clichés and stereotype that flood hollywood genre film and which turn out to be completely unfunny and boorish dross . grow yourself . jason a corporate lawyer decide to quit his job and split up with his wife so they both can grow and do what they always want to do . that life and a jason see it and he take over look after the child and but his decision to follow this path might not be the right one . talk about leaden and boring and stiff . there only real interest be the small performance of the lovely diane lane . the satirical element here seem to be point out something than actually just deliver it . the silly humour be strain and flat and particularly senseless . peter riegert keep it very deadpan in the lead role and teresa ganzel bubble along in her role . success wanter after just finishing collage dominique corsair get a job a a stripper and be rape with some butter by the dairy company president . for payback she become interested in the margarine industry and virtually work her way to the havery top . probably the best one of the three and but the competition wasn not too great . the gag seem to want go more subtle with it sexual and power orientate tone and but still they do feel more tacky and force . the idea have something promising and inventive to build on and but the languid pacing begin to wear thin by the end and disastrous dialogue do not do it any favour at all . the humour try and but more often doesn not come off and despite the hunger . the seductively ann dusenberry be pretty cold and manipulative throughout ( well after the painful ordeal ) and like to gracefully bare it all quite a bit . even the skimpy stripper outfit seem to get full workout for the opening half of the story . pop up in amuse minor cameo range from dick millar and mary woronov and olympia dukakis and fred willard and robert culp and a favourite turn by joe spinell . municipalians a serial killer who leave copy of his driver licence behind after each murder and be be track down by an enthusiastically naive rookie cop and his old grizzled partner . however the young cop learn that be tough be the only way to go and when the pair encounter one situation after another . stupid . oh yeah . sure if youre go to spoof something extremely over the top and make sure laughter will stream off it . obviously they forget that . even at it 30 minute run and boy do it drag . robby benson gratingly mock performance get rather overbear with a wearied richard widmark do very little a his partner . christopher lloyd underplay the role of serial killer and but his creepily wry and sympathetic performance work well and pretty much show up the other lead . elisha cook jr. and rhea perlman and harry reems appear . when the joke come and they truly feel out of sync and get rather stale with it repetitiveness of make fun of these cop clichés . in all and the idiotic material lace with it skit come across a disposable and and the unbearable script be basically inept and witless . only one or two few gag make it out each segment and but really there too many cheap stinker or plain miss which stick in your head . this be because it virtually become what it try to poke fun at and this basically show in each story . it lose sight . the performance range from hot to cold and but who can not deny the embarrassment that felt on most of their face . director bob giraldi first taste be a vapid one for grow yourself and but success wanter show some minor flourish of mild effectiveness . henry jaglom do a labouredly jaded job on municipalians . rick meyerowitz vividly crass drawing that open the film and be neatly devise and go on to set the style and mood . this low brow comedy flunk it by overplay it and with the main interested be derive by the familiar cameo . but really and be it worth go through this putridly lame and restless get up and just to spot them . well and that up to you .