After School Special

Plot synopsis:
Three highschool teenagers are sex obsessed, without being able to get it. Instead, Matt keeps peeping into the women's gym class dressing room. Fred can't talk to girls but their sight prompts him to constantly masturbate in the school's toilets. Deacon attends sex education, but instead of listening to the older teacher he just stares at the pokey nipples of her large breasts.The guys adhere to Scarface's Tony Montana: "First you get the money! Then you get the power! Then you get the women!" However, Fred gets fired from a video store for supplying them porn to duplicate and sell. Thus they fail Tony Montana by having neither cars, girls, money nor even porn. Matt and Fred go online but can't bypass Fred's online censorship software.After Deacon's class visits the zoo and the teacher videotapes monkeys mating, Deacon convinces his friends to film porn themselves. Fred steals credit card records from one of his father's patients to purchase hosting for After School Special - a site by virgins, for virgins. For credibility, but to still remain anonymous themselves, they post on the Front Page an image of their braces wearing classmate Roger. Masquerading as Hawaiians vacationing in Cleveland, they cast local strippers. Jake, their popular classmate and Deacon's neighbor, sees the strippers dropping them off at Deacon's. He demands the truth and then his casting. Yet Jake can't perform on cue. The main porn actress, Ashley (Sarah-Jane Potts), agrees helping and casually gives him a handjob. Jake has a premature ejaculation on her hand, and gets replaced with Coop, an everlasting grown student.Meanwhile, Deacon takes the courage to talk to the popular Naomi (Amy Smart) during a party. In a following party, Jake, who she recently dumped, tries to humiliate Deacon in front of her. But Deacon says she was too good for Jake and kisses her. They then sleep together.A fire in the shootings sends everyone - including a topless Ashley - out of Deacon's basement right into his family. Deacon says Ashley is his girlfriend. To his surprise, Ashley agrees to stay for dinner. Naomi soon arrives and introduces herself as Deacon's girlfriend. She leaves upon meeting Deacon's "other girlfriend", but Deacon tells her the truth. She asks to add a female perspective. She thinks the purposely nerdish character of Coop should be well dressed and perhaps a foreign exchange student. This causes a rift with Matt and Fred. The fighting causes Ashley to leave.Naomi takes Deacon shopping for more appealing clothes and says he doesn't need "the boys" anymore. Deacon then apologize to his friends. They consider stop filming, but Ashley shows up saying she needs the film in order to have a reel. They can't resist her charms.The site becomes popular and Roger has no idea why his hairdresser thinks he can get her roles. She assumes he just wants something in return. Therefore, she fills her hand with hair mousse and suddenly shoves it down his hair apron to give him a reach-around handjob, which makes him scream in panic.Completing the hard filming, the guys decide to quit porn filming. In a following party, Ashley says the reel she now has got Coop and her a contract proposal. Deacon gently breaks up with Naomi. Roger shows up with his hairdresser. An angry Jake then says he mailed his scene to Deacon's parents. The guys rush out, but two local porn producers kidnap them. To avoid bodily harm, the guys promise to hand over everything. All they want in return is a lifetime supply of porn and retaining the youthful spirit of After School Special.Deacon's parents' mail contains just his report card, which bad grade in Biology they attribute to having two girlfriends. The taping was stolen by his brother, who blackmails Deacon for it.At school, Fred and Matt say they again failed Tony Montana by having neither money, power nor women. Alas, Deacon gets back with his returning old girlfriend Rachael. Two attractive girls hit on Fred and Matt due to their new rumored sexual knowledge. The local porn producer/actor compensates them with convertibles. Jake refuses to stop humiliating Deacon and therefore has his embarrassing scene played over the school's monitors.Deacon's parents watch porn and recognize their portrait and basement.

Tags: pornographic, home movie

Review:
This movie was almost extremely entertaining.
Nevertheless, the movie does manage to draw you...kind of...to the plight of the protagonists.
There were many areas for improvement, but you got what you came for with this movie: hot teen breasts and bad acting.
It just fits(it is a movie about making pornos).
Yes, the acting wasn't the best and the jokes were halfhearted and cheesy, but at least that's what the movie was going for.
this film was meant to be a dumb comedy.
the whole point is so that you laugh and are offended and think, "man this is stupid" all at the same time.
i thought it was hilarious, raunchy and dumb-funny.
not a movie for kids, or people who are offended easily by crude sexual humor.
the plot was so incredibly far fetched, thats what made it so funny and stupid at the same time.
i mean come on, what kind of movie did you expect with tom arnold in it?
i think i have made it clear what kind of movie it is....love it or hate it, at least you know what to expect..
I totally disagree with the other review posted about this film.I really enjoyed this movie.I recently rented this movie on DVD and I thought it was funny and entertaining.Certainly better than American Pie 3:The Wedding.Erik Von Detten,Tony Denman and Daniel Farber who played the three main characters give impressive performances as three high school geeks who decide to make their own porno movie.I thought that Erik Von Detten who plays the part of Deakin Lewis was the best of the three.
OK its certainly not in the same league as American Pie and American Pie 2 but it is a fun entertaining movie.See it if you enjoyed the movies Road Trip or Eurotrip..
It is mildly entertaining at the very most and does not come close to other teenage or high school movies.
Gross-out comedy.Have you seen American Pie?
Have you seen National Lampoon's other stuff?
Of course--wait...
Well that's okay, I got the point.Did you like those films?
Well, whichever way you answer the above question will determine what your enjoyment of this film will be like.
I myself don't really think those films are THAT BAD, they're just not THAT GOOD.
I think if it weren't for the fact that the father figure tries to pull a Eugene Levy, the stupid high school bully is trying to be a Stifler, and sometimes the characters seem to do things that not only don't fit with their character in the film, but don't match anything that happens in real life, this would be a pretty good movie.Even despite those details (which are actually minor in the way they were presented), the film does its job and does it right.
Scenes like the porno actress having dinner with the family when the girlfriend walks in, or the fact that said girlfriend isn't what he's looking for in the first place, stuff like that is enough to relax and enjoy the film if you're willing to not worry too much about wasting your time.I would have to say that, if anything, the whole competitor storyline and all that Scarface stuff really got to me the most, considering I find the Scarface dream to be an utterly banal and hideous allusion for everyone to always make, and the competitor was just kind of stupid overall.--PolarisDiB.
Although most National Lampoon movies save for Van Wilder haven't been been any good in recent times, the tag-line and cover of this DVD proved just too tempting, and when faced between the choice of watching this and some Chick Flick Drama (Derailed i think)) the obvious choice was made.However in view of the recent movies I automatically reduced my expectations and expected nothing more than a few laughs a bunch of hot nude women and nothing out of the ordinary.And thats exactly what I got!!Every thing about this movie is run-of-the-mill and formula based but when you factor in the target audience (ME and others like me who like to escape reality once in a while indulge in a bit of immature fun and fantasy) then the formula assures a decent product (Most of the Times).This movie is pieced together using cast from other National Lampoon movies and the best part is apart from the women (who all look over 20-25) the guys look like they could still be in high school (or thereabouts).Decent performances are given from everyone but Tom Arnold was completely wasted in this movie.The jokes were formula based but some of them were hilarious and continued in the gross tradition of others, the monkey mating scene, the hairdresser scene, the 2-3 hilarious porn shoots were too good and make this movie worth the rent.Other than that this movie is filled with loads of chuckles and the regular stuff such as the quest for true love, nerds becoming cool etc etc which was in fact handled so badly that any potential that his movie had was ruined.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT THE TEEN EMOTIONAL STUFF IS THE ONLY THING THAT BRINGS THIS MOVIE DOWN.
Not because it there but because it been handled so badly.The sound effects of this movie were actually quite good but there was no soundtrack to speak of.A few people who stood out in this movie were Daniel Farber and Horatio Sanz as the hilarious Vic Ram-a lot.Direction production etc was not really important but was decent.Writing could have been way better in both the emotional and the comedy scenes but the emotional scenes were badly handled (comedy was good but not up-to its potential, teens in porn is full proof formula).In all a funny movie with just a couple of scenes making the entire movie worth it.However keep this movie in the Back-up list as it doesn't warrant a trip to the store on its own merit.(As always if you don't like such movies then don't rent them).-s PATHETHIC EMOTIONAL SCENES, Tom Arnold wasted, Nothing out of the ordinary (as expected) +/s meets lowered expectations, so so casting +s a bunch of hilarious scenes, lots of chuckles, Vic Ramalot.total 6/10 (absolute and factoring in expectations).
When I happened to stumble across this film, it was entitled Barely Legal and not After School Special.
Truth is, the film is barely watchable and feels more like a drunken after dinner daydream than an after school special.
Are there people that will enjoy a film like Barely Legal?
The film isn't really about anything as much as it is a documentation of producing pornography or the meek attempt at making pornography and all the hassle that it involves.
What really grates, and this is an underlying theme, is that watching a really bad film is one thing but watching a really bad film about people attempting to make a really bad film within the universe of what we're seeing is just painful.The film, a part of the National Lampoon series (whatever that is), was directed by David M.
Evans (answers on a postcard as to what the 'M' might stand for) whose previous crimes against cinema include the 3rd and 4th Beethoven outings some years ago and who is also scheduled to direct the up and coming 'Ace Ventura Junior' film.
That should be, if Jim Carrey sequels/prequels not starring Jim Carrey are anything to go by in the form of Son of the Mask and Dumb and Dumberer, utterly unwatchable at the very best.This particular little travesty however follows three young American boys at high school as they attempt to feed off Tony Montana's ideation of 'getting the money, getting the power and getting the women'.
Yeah, trouble is Tony Montana had nothing to do with making pornography and Barely Legal has nothing to do with chasing the American dream: it's just clueless, horny kids using porn as a front to get closer to girls.
Any film entitled 'Barely Legal' which revolves around people making pornography and still manages to worm its way into a realm of the '15' certificate over here in Britain instead of the '18' certificate has to have done something cataclysmically wrong during the making process.
Clearly, the BBFC deem it not all that bad in terms of gratuity and I just wonder if that was the certificate the makers were aiming for  I doubt it.The boys making the film are Deacon (von Detten); Fred (Denman) and Matt (Farber), three hapless individuals given mercilessly unfunny introductions about their relationships toward girls and some of their 'habits' when it comes to communicating with them.
The film totally disregards women from the off but the sad fact is that's an absolute given in this genre.
At one point in the film, a character whilst making the porno exclaims something along the lines of "Women's points of view don't even matter in these sorts of movies" and he's sort of hit the nail on the head for all the wrong reasons  when he says 'these sorts of movies', is it the real film actually recognising how rubbish it knows it is?
Thus, the messy and dull narrative that opens up to do with Deacon loosing his friends as the project falls apart is silly and doesn't work; it feels thrown in and manufactured out of the primary story about kids wanting girls so they make porn.
When will people learn that pornography is not funny?
When will people realise that films about pornography are not funny?
Glimpses or very quick cuts of bras, nipples and so forth do-not-make-people-laugh, simple; they are an on screen visualisation of someone's fantasy writ down and writ large across the screen for others to see  it's not funny and it's a waste of everyone's time.IMDb has this film on its 'release dates' page opening at Cannes, in May 2003  it's one of those screenings at Cannes you just wish you were there for, purely for the reaction and the witnessing of the mass walkout I'm sure there was, that is of course if the fact it was shown there is true in the first place.
Supposedly, Irreversible is the most walked out of film at Cannes ever, but that's only because no one was paying any attention to the screenings of this junk.
When the friendships have been broken down and patched up in doubly quick time, there's time for local porn king Vic Ramalot (Sanz) to waltz around in public complete with gun drawn hunting for the kids who he assumes to be up and coming rivals threatening his business.
I really don't know where to begin when describing a film of the calibur of Barely Legal(AKA After School Special).
Describing it as a catalogue of errors does a dis-service to films that fall in that category - because usually although they failed spectacularly for various reasons, there's some evidence that they did so whilst trying to do something of note.
You never really get the sense that anything was really attempted here.National Lampoon, apparently meant something in the field of comedy at one stage in time, but I can't help but feel that it's reputation and stock nowadays is somewhat diminished given this showing.
Barely Legal tells the story of 3 teenage guys who are inept with the girls and perpetually short on cash.
Reasoning that they need money to get girls in the first place, they come across the idea of making their own porn film (not exactly an original concept).
It's quite obvious he's the one going to be getting the most screen attention, and inevitably the girls.
Portrayed as unintelligent and personality-lacking is one thing, buts it's another to imply woman are simply a means to an end - one that I don't think needs elaborating.
I've really got to applaud the film in that regard though, if it can make a mostly apathetic laid back guy take up near feminist views on character portrayal, then it really must excel in it's field.
But the biggest question of all - I found myself wondering; is who exactly is this film suppose to be aimed at?
A juvenile story and overall stupidity would make you assume youngsters but with soft-core porn scenes, nudity and masturbation jokes you find yourself at a loss to it's target audience.
If you really want a teen sex-based comedy then you have a whole list of better alternatives; Superbad, American Pie and Road Trip to name but a few - comedies that actually had some substance to them as well as being a lot more humorous.
Barely Legal was meant for no one it would seem, and conveniently enough that is exactly what I would recommend..
A total waste of film, time and money.
I cannot think of another movie that was so excruciatingly bad that it hurt as much to watch as this hunk of crap.
These writers, producers and director do not have a clue of what is funny.
Saw to movie in Europe very funny.
It's filled with crude funny sex related humor.
Go see it for what it is a funny laugh a minute movie.
The cast in the movie works from Amy Smart to Vince Vieluf and Eric really make you laugh.I thought that they should have kept the original title.
National Lampoon's Barely Legal.
I think that title would draw more box office attention to the movie.There is a particularly funny part in the movie, with Vice Vieluf and a DDR game that made me chuckle.
What I don't understand is why they took so long to release the movie in the US, after all it was made in 2003..
The movie should have been stupid, I know.
This effect was even enhanced by plot holes: people jumping in and out of the story, characters jumping in different directions, scenes ending halfway, not going far enough.
Even more disturbing were the three main characters: being so stupid that I hoped them to leave the film; the girls were too similar; the sex scenes had no sex; the boys kept their trousers on; everything was too ashamed.
Fun way to waste some time.
This movie was just what I expected - nothing more , nothing less than a fun way to waste an hour and a half  especially if you don't have anything else to do , or just don't feel like watching something more serious.
For one thing I thought that it was really funny - and at the same time some of the scenes were hot  but I guess you will have to be like the characters starring- a horny teenager or something to appreciate that.
The soundtrack isn't anything special  but you won't notice that if you don't pay attention to the music in the movies.
To summarise it was one of the good comedies around there  and if you enjoy movies such as "American Pie "you will enjoy this one as well..
This was not a great film, but to call this a rip off of Porn 'n Chicken is just laughable.
(It would be kind of like the Yankees ripping off the Devil Rays.)  Second, this was filmed BEFORE Porn 'N Chicken.
Yes, this movie was bad.
If you go into EITHER of these movies expecting to be entertained, then you have no one to blame but yourself..
Teen porn producers.
Three dumb clucks in high school decide that the best way to get women is to
skip it...National Lampoon's continue trend to disappoint dates way back this film, Spring Break, Gold Diggers, please i'd rather not continue this list National Lampoon's used to stand for smart, sexy, outrageous comedy to me...what happened?
i mean i did not laugh a smile once throughout this film if it can be called that anywho, hope things go up from this and other horrible films that should have never been made...TV Reality comes to mind...absolute garbage...i'd really rather see them try to make some quality films instead of trying to mass produce a bunch of junk, shoddy films with fancy looking covers and titles that don't deliver in anyway but just drag on same old tried jokes and progress in the same manner since the 90's...sorry National Lampoon, but this film, like many other unfortunate opportunities i've given due to the name, reputation, and heritage...well, looks like somewhere, somehow, something went terrible wrong.
Barely Funny.
In a teaser, we see three young men hung up on meat hooks get their pants removed by a pornographic film actor.
Around his 17th birthday, good-looking blond Erik von Detten (as Deacon Lewis) is watching porn with his two nerdy pals.
The trio agree the movie is terrible and decide to make one of their own.
"Adult films by virgins, for virgins," is how Mr. Von Detten presents the idea.
They think this will make a lot of money, leading to the purchase of a car and an end to their virginity.
Evans' better scenes is when the trio don computerized facial hair and go to the "Pretty Kitty" strip club to find a sexy female lead for their movie.** National Lampoon's Barely Legal After School Special (2003) David M.
Evans ~ Erik von Detten, Tony Denman, Daniel Farber, Sarah-Jane Potts.
A typical National Lampoon movie.
Sex starved young men, some nudity,and it tries to be funny and generally succeeds.
Three loser nerd types get the bright idea to produce a porn film.
They try to find a stud who turns out to be a local high school hero.
Continuing to try and film they have problems all along the line.
At the end of the film this leads to some of the high school girls going after two of the guys and the third hooks up with his old girl friend.
Don't really know what happens to Amy's character or the porn star wanna be Ashley but this is not a bad show all in all.