Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991)

Waste of time

Truly Dreadful Film

Fantastic!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I did not like the first two "Ghoulies" movies, but compared to this third entry, they are Academy Award material. This entry goes wrong in just about every way you can think of. It somehow forgets how Ghoulies act, among other things giving them here the unexplained power of the English language. The special effects that make up the Ghoulies come across as cut rate creations despite the fact that John Carl Buechler once again made them. Buechler also directed this time around, and in the director's chair he proves to be hopeless. The movie is far too jokey in tone, which may not have been bad had the humor been funny, but it never is. There are also some big plot points that are either vaguely explained or not explained at all. But the biggest problem with the movie is that there is not one likable character to be found. The students are jerks, the professor is cold and stern, and the Ghoulies are never up to any good. Nobody seems to be enjoying themselves in this film, and if you're unlucky enough to see the movie, you'll be experiencing the same utter lack of joy.

Lame "comedy" entry in the poor Ghoulies series with some notable casting. There's a Revenge of the Nerds sequel vibe to it and that's not a compliment. College professor Kevin McCarthy summons the Ghoulies this time. It's prank week at the college and literally every male in this movie is a complete douchebag. In addition to genre vet Kevin McCarthy, there's a young and very pretty Eva La Rue, Jason Scott Lee as a nerd (!), and Matthew Lillard in his film debut. There's a few other familiar faces but nobody important. The lead character is a guy named Skip played by an actor time has forgotten. This is a terrible excuse for a movie. Cheap, unfunny, certainly not scary...it's just abysmal.

Rowdy ghoulies Rat, Cat, and Fish embark on a wild destructive spree on a college campus. That's about it for the admittedly flimsy premise, but fortunately director John Carl Buechler and screenwriter Brent Olson happily indulge in the expected blithely inane and sophomoric "Animal House"-style collegiate hi-jinks that include lots of beer swilling, dopey practical jokes, slapstick violence, the inevitable panty raid, a fierce rivalry between two sparring fraternities, and a generous sprinkling of tasty female nudity. Moreover, the game cast attack the wacky lightweight material with real zest: Evan MacKenzie contributes an engaging performance as affable prank master Skip Carter, the fetching Eva La Rue makes a favorable impression as the sweet Erin Riddle, Kevin McCarthy portrays evil buzz crushing dean Professor Ragnar with deliciously hammy panache, John Johnston jerks it up nicely as hateful tool Heilman, Stephen Lee does well as bumbling campus cop Barcus, and cute blonde onetime Playboy Playmate Hope Marie Carlton struts her sizzling hot stuff as stuck-up and sexually voracious vixen Veronica. Plus it's a total riot to see both Jason Scott Lee and Matthew Lillard in their pre-stardom days. Look fast for Kane "Jason" Hodder as a guy who gets stuck in a rolling mop bucket. The rocking soundtrack and the sprightly score by Reg Powell and Michael Lloyd keep things bouncing along. A complete goofy hoot.

Lame is really the best way to describe this movie. It has a real poor script, uninteresting dialog and characters and it's lacking in basically everything else as well. There are too many characters and problem is that you don't care about any of them. What the movie is lacking is one good and clear main character. Instead now the movie has a bit of everything, it has a bit of an hero, it has a bit of a love interest and it has a bit of villain. I wish it only had a bit less Ghoulies though, fore they are just mostly very annoying in this movie.Ghoulies are supposed to be devilish creatures, who murder for pleasure. In this movie however all they want to do is drink beer and watch naked college girls. Besides, someone had the 'brilliant' idea to let the Ghoulies be able to talk this time. This works out really poorly and annoying. The Ghoulie-puppets had been definitely upgraded for this movie and they are more detailed looking and are able to do more, however at the same time they are way more fake looking than the ones from the previous Ghoulies movies.It's obvious that the aim for this movie was more comedy than horror this time. The movie is like a lame '80's high-school comedy (even though this movie got released in 1991). It's humor is really the worst and most lame thing about the entire movie. It's so incredibly annoying and simply not funny at all.The story is not going anywhere with its story and the movie is just basically one big mess, that never seems to end. The Ghoulies plot line seems basically to have nothing to do at all with the other plot lines of the movie, involving the human characters. The movie is not at all about the Ghoulies terrorizing a college, with the humans trying to hunt them down and stop their rampage. No big surprise that this is Brent Olson's only written movie as of yet. He simply has no talent for it and I think that he has discovered this as well and has gone back to college himself instead.Even when compared to the previous Ghoulies movies; this movie is just simply terrible!2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/