Cattle Call

Plot synopsis:
Cattle Call follows the three male protagonists as they hold a fake casting call in Hollywood for a fictional independent film entitled Perfect for Me with the hope of meeting women. Richie is looking for a relationship, while Sherman and Glenn are more interested in sex. After going on dates with the girls, they eventually chose three women to be in their "film": Marina, Laurel and Nikita.
When Marina checks Richie's computer to find a dating site called Perfect for Me, he feels guilty and reveals to her that the whole thing was set up for the three men to find women. She storms out of his house and meets up with the other two girls at the empty 'casting studio'. It turns out that one of the other women isn't really an actress at all, and is investigating the three guys following complaints on the internet that the casting was a scam.
The girls ask to have a first read through audition of the 'script' (a translation of an old foreign language film that the guys had seen) and then tell the guys that they want to make the script 'sexier' and that they want to have lots of sex with the three producers to practice. The women set up a hotel room with cameras, and film Sherman and Glenn preparing to have sex with them - Richie refuses and leaves. They then send in two masculine women with whips and sex toys instead, and then the police burst in and arrest Sherman and Glenn.
After a night in jail, the two go to court facing 10–15 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000. The judge, Solomon Mendel, allows 24 hours for the defence to prepare evidence. Richie, stuck for ideas whilst watching a reality show Real Cops on TV, suddenly realises he can make a film from the footage of the casting that they have. He reaches the court the next morning just as a verdict has been announced, but the judge allows the evidence and finds Sherman and Glenn not guilty.
In the final scenes before the credits, Richie apologises to Marina again and as her (ex-)boyfriend departs he realises that she isn't leaving and they kiss. Three final quick closing scenes follow this. The first show Nikita running a casting call with men, in a project called Fresh Meat. The second shows Glenn working as the director on a Spanish-speaking set, pretending to speak Spanish to the production crew. The very final scene shows Sherman revealing to Richie that he is a sex addict; Richie doesn't believe it, and jokes that next Sherman will be starting a therapy group so he can meet female sex addicts. After a long pause Sherman replies "That's a great idea."

Tags: romantic

Review:
Dull and mediocre but it had a few chuckles..
It ain't no Vacation movie but I guess I could say it was worth the rental..sorta.
I had small mixed feelings about this movie.
The premise of the movie was good, it was just the movie itself that was bad.
Diedrich Bader had a very weak performance in this movie and Thomas Ian Nicholas showed me why again I never really found anything special about him.
Although there were a few times where I laughed, the romantic parts felt like I was watching a bad TV-movie.
If I were you, I would approach this movie with caution, you'll like it if you're a die-hard National Lampoon fan.
You'll be disappointed if you're expecting a Dorm Daze movie.
I just hope that there is no sequel in the works..
Calling this film 'crap' would be high praise..
I believe that there is SOME good in everyone.
In the case of the guys who are producing films for NL these days, you'd need a scalpel to find it.Bad script, bad editing, bad directing, but when all is said and done not good at all.
I would say this film was poorly acted but it's hard to tell with a director this bad.
NL would have been better off just putting the camera on a tripod in front of Jonathan Winters, hitting record and saying 'go.' Since Nicole Eggert doesn't get naked in this, Winters is the only thing worthwhile about the whole production.
He's only in it for about five minutes or less..
Yet another National Lampoon disaster ...............
It has been my experience that 9 out of 10 National Lampoon movies are unwatchable, and while "National Lampoon Cattle Call" is far from the worst, it is still bad.
Aside from the classic "Vacation", "Animal House", and "Van Wilder", and the marginal "Deadly Sins" and "Gold Diggers", everything else has been simply awful, including "Cattle Call".
This is essentially a one joke movie, and the joke is both unoriginal, redundant, and boring.
Most of the crude efforts for a laugh totally misfire, and the overly simplistic script simply has nowhere to go.
The entire film seems tired from beginning to end.
Throw in the towel early, because essentially you will not miss anything you haven't seen before.
- MERK.
A fake casting agency goes awry when the goods they are to deliver appear not to exist.
A very funny comedy that will appeal to most adults, I thought Diedrich Bader, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Johnathen Winters stood out in the movie with their very keen senses of humor.
Paul Mazursky played the perfect overbearing hapless judge, overall just a great supporting cast, a lot of laughs from beginning to end!
The storyline is completely believable in that a desperate guy played by Thomas Ian Nicholas aided by his good buddies that he also convinces to assist him and themselves,{they don't need to much convincing mind you} to cook up a scheme to "meet as many women/girls as possible, by putting advertisements in the paper and creating a fake casting call for a movie that really doesn't exist!
A person definitely gets the sense that this cooked up idea may have been attempted in the past by " guys looking to meet and date as many women as they can".
Ask any producer or director and they will tell you that casting calls routinely can draw literally hundreds if not thousands of people that want to audition for parts.I have seen most of the National Lampoons and this rates up there for believability,acting skills, realism and humor.
At the premiere I happened to sit next to a very well known "movie critic" and for what it's worth he gave it "two thumbs up"!!!
"A MUST SEE SLEEPER COMEDY THAT WILL BE COMING OUT IN THE THEATRES IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 07 !!!!!!!!!!!!!1.
fun.
Okay, so it was shot on a shoe-string budget.
That's not the point.
Movie does elevate itself above its humble origin by showing a considerable lot of spark, even if firing in the wrong direction lots of timed.
Biggest saving grace is Jenny Mollen, whom I recognized from ANGEL only because I took note of her name.
Wonderful how a truly charming girl can brighten up the scene.
The three miscreants have their own charm though, and as for constructive criticism, I'd simply say the producers were on the right track, as the film has a correct feel about it, especially with the hand-held camera footage, and that the girls were samplings from all walks of life.A glaringly obvious Goof: If Reseda Camarillo reported the set-up after getting dumped, how come Nikita comes walking in immediately in the same scene as Reseda's getting dumped?
Sherman still wears the lipstick smeared on him from the encounter as he switches targets.
Filming clearly just took an efficient shortcut.People renting this one know very well what they are renting.
Don't complain if the content is kinda amateurish- looking.
It's kinda how it is supposed to look.
It is a fake casting agency with minimal equipment.
So don't take your ire out on the poor defenseless movie.
It is actually quite well done.
The laugh is on the kind of reviewers who would say 1 - 10.
They're in a bad place.This review was written by Mister Teets.
Please, Jenny, take me home!.
Quirky and very very funny.
I did a fake casting of a movie when I was in college.
It totally worked.
I met tons of girls.
I'm freaked out someone made a movie about it.
I'm sure others have done this too.
I wonder if the writer-director Martin Guigui lived it...Diedrich Bader is hilarious!
"Cattle Call" is the funniest National Lampoon film I have seen since "Van Wilder".
I heard they're making a sequel.
I'd love to sneak onto that set.
Chelsea Handler is a good actress.
She should do more films.
The actress Jenny Molen that played Marina is awesome.
I heard she married Jason Biggs recently.
I hope she's in the sequel.
She was the best thing about "Cattle Call".
There are a few very funny memorable scenes.
One that I keep remembering is when the character of Sherman Oaks (played by Andrew Katos) thinks he is playing a great guitar solo, but he sucks and then Chelsea Handler still wants to have sex with him.
The film reminds me of "Spinal Tap" sometimes.
I rented if from Netflix and then I bought it so I can relive it, my past that is....
The best in this movie is the intro music theme.....
The best in this movie is the intro music theme....The plot is somewhat OK but the execution is bad....The acting is bad....
I liked only the one that played the nerd strange guy from the leading roles but still he could improved his performance....The dialogs and black humor is far from top....
The movie does have 1-2 funny momentsThe movie does have a lot of pretty ladies!!!!
probably on purpose....I wouldn't suggest renting this movie...The best in this movie is the intro music theme.....
Dull, dull, dull.
You're thinking, "National Lampoon"?
No. It's not funny.
No. It's not funny.
No laughs, no chuckles, certainly no guffaws.
It's not even mildly interesting.Three deadbeats set up a fake casting agency.
Using no money.
Huh?
They rent a studio-like office and convince hundreds of desperate women that their stupid questions about sex and men have some connection to a movie audition.They get caught out, are sodomised by some butch lesbians with electrical implements, charged with fraud, go to trial, then, in one night, magically pull together some bits and pieces of video-tape, sufficient to convince a judge it was for real all along.Oh, and the main deadbeat gets the beautiful girl anyway.Dross.
Don't waste your time.
No, even the lesbians-with-the-electrical-implements bit was mercifully brief and dull.
Okay, some of the other stuff was even more dull, but this was dull, too.
This explains how KNOWING got released.
I gave this movie one bonus point for a total rating of 5 out of 10, for the insight it offered about the inner workings of Hollywood, which had puzzled me after seeing KNOWING the previous day.
It turns out that all you have to do to make a flick is cobble together some ideas from other people's scripts (the English caption function built into most DVD's can carry even the most illiterate crew member through the dialog portion of this step), and then tell anyone who shows up for the casting call (or "cattle call," here) just to do what they feel comfortable with (it obviously worked for director Alex Proyas and star Nicolas Cage in KNOWING, to the tune of this week's number one box office hit).
So thanks, National Lampoon, now all is illuminated.