Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): while i am not fond of any writer 's use of cheap , easy puns , i am not completely above using them myself when the situation merits it ( witness my review of _ pecker _ from a couple of issues ago ) .
so here goes
: the juvenile , college - set black comedy
_ dead_man_on_campus
_ is dead on arrival .
strait - laced med student josh ( tom everett scott , who manages to remain somewhat likable throughout )
's
blemish - free academic record breaks out into fs , thanks to the influence of his ever - partying roommate , cooper ( mark - paul gosselaar ) , who introduces josh to the sex- and booze - filled nights that come with university life .
with the threat of losing an academic scholarship ( josh ) and a life cleaning toilets for his dad looming ( cooper ) , what are two good - hearted slackers to do ?
easy -- look for a loophole , which they find in the form of an unbelievable rule in the school charter that states that if a student 's ( or students ' ) roommate commits suicide , the surviving student ( s ) shall receive straight as .
so instead of studying , josh and cooper attempt to seek out the most depressed student out there , move him into their dorm room , and drive him to suicide before the semester ends .
director alan cohn and screenwriters michael traeger and mike white ( working from a story by anthony abrams and adam larson broder ) take their sweet time to build the head of steam that comes with josh and cooper 's diabolical plot . until then , the usual boring cliches of college life
( booze , sex , more booze ) fill the time , which is made to feel longer by _
saved_by_the_bell _
alumnus gosselaar 's sitcom - bred mugging .
that said , once cohn and company do build some comic momentum , they mishandle it .
the introduction of the manic , psychotic cliff ( lochlyn munro ) , a potential roommate for josh and cooper , brings some demented life to the uninspired proceedings before being hastily written out in favor of two less interesting candidates : paranoid nerd buckley ( randy pearlstein ) and british death rocker matt ( corey page ) .
one wishes that cliff would reappear , but , as they say , be careful what you wish for .
not surprisingly , he does resurface , and it then becomes clear that this is a character that is best taken in a small dose ; almost immediately , his extended boorish and sociopathic antics loses its novelty .
the same can be said about all of _ dead_man_on_campus_.
whatever morbid appeal the far - fetched premise has quickly evaporates , and the self - absorbed characters , especially cooper , pretty much grate from the get - go .
_
dead_man _ does n't grow tiresome ; it already _ is _
once the clever opening titles are through .
as it slogs along to a cheesy , happy - for - all - parties conclusion , _ dead_man
_ lives up to its title and
then some -- not only does the movie grow even more tired and die , it still insists on going on .
.. like a zombie .
Output (English): N