half a star

'Miss
March'
Dude, where's my girl? At Playboy
Mansion in this Hef-baked film
BY FRANK LOVECE
Special to Newsday

n 89-minute infomercial for Playboy

magazine, attempting to rebrand it for
the Maxim generation, this first feature
by two members of the sketch-comedy quintet
the Whitest Kids U'Know revels in graphic
defecation, dog-urine
drinking, deformed genita-
|:LOT When a lia and other things general-
high-school virgin ly not seen outside a Tijua-
awakens after a na S&M club.
coma, he discov- And despite all this, as
ers his old sweet- well as toplessness by bit
heart is a Play- players, the movie actual-
boy centerfold, ly wants us to believe
prompting a road that in a Playboy center-
trip with his fold, the model's breasts
buddy to the would be modestly cov-
Playboy Mansion. ered up.
CAST Zach Iluritanical gross-out
Cregger, Trevor humor? Huh?
Moore, Craig Co-scripting, co-direct-
Robinson, Raquel ing and co-starring,
Atessi, Molly - \l'tritest Kids Zach Creg-
Stanton, Cedric ger and Trevor Moore
Yarbrough, Hugh prove themselves to be
M. Hefner less wunderkinds than
LENGTH 1:29 dunderkinds.
PLAYING AT Cregger does a credit-
Area theaters able Charles Grodin im-
BOTTOM LINE pression as Eugene, a
Gross-out buddy high-school senior whose
comedy makes prom-night trip-and-fall
Harold and Kumar results in a four-year
look like Kaufman coma.
and Hart. When he awakens, his
perpetually popeyed pal
Tucker (Moore). a life-
long Playboy subscriber
- Playboy
prises being one of the film's
Enter-
producers
sees that Eugene's old girlfriend Cindi
-
(Raquel Alessi, breathlessly awful) is the
current Miss March. Road trip to the Playboy
Mansion!
Some mildly funny homicidal humor in-
volves firefighters nationwide hurling axes at
the boys' car. (It's the revenge of Tucker's
angry girlfriend and her fireman brother.)
Otherwise, "Miss March" is a mess.