I'm going to go out on a limb here and actually suggest that this reminds me of a Shakespeare play. Okay, there are certainly some cultural differences, namely that losing one's virginity wasn't something that people would write plays about in his time, and I'm not sure whether T&A were a particularly big thing back then either (though honestly, there is a lot we don't know, though considering that women were forbidden from appearing on stage probably says a lot). However, when it comes to dick jokes and toilet humour, well Shakespeare certainly abounds in that.
Like, the film seems to start off as being your typical nerd has to get laid type of film, that is until they get to Palm Springs and run into their rivals from back home. Sure, they are trying to get the nerd laid, but that seems to be a bit more of a side plot to the rivals making a bet as to who can sleep with the girl Ashleigh first. When they made that bet the first thought that came into my mind was 'I bet Shakespeare wrote a play along those exact some lines' (I don't think he did, but it sounds like something he would do - though apparently in Love's Labour's Lost there is a competition as to who can get married first).
In fact, as I watched it, I could pick the two princes and their lackies, of course the lady that they are trying to court, and the mean duke in the form of the Sheriff, who while being defeated, is humiliated as opposed to being killed. Of course, the way that they attempt to woo Ashleigh has some intelligence about it as well. Mind you, I'm not sure whether you can put Wendel into a Shakespearian play since there didn't seem to be the concept of the nerd back though, though there are some suggestions that you might have the bookish philosopher fall into that category (though that doesn't seem to be a Shakespeaian trope).
Mind you, I'm not sure what Roger Ebert meant when he referred to the women as being objects because I thought that Ashleigh did have a character beyond being a pretty face. Like, yeah, there were characters there that were the pretty faces, such as the two girls that hung around the two rivals (in fact the male characters seemed to be less memoriable, what except for Mother Tucker, but that was actually a pretty cool name).
Look, despite my arguments that you could literally rewrite this as a Shakesperian play, it is still a college sex comedy, and it is pretty much what you would expect from the eighties. Yeah, just because you can say that the plot comes across as Shakespearian, doesn't mean that it has been executed in a way Shakespeare would.
Like, the film seems to start off as being your typical nerd has to get laid type of film, that is until they get to Palm Springs and run into their rivals from back home. Sure, they are trying to get the nerd laid, but that seems to be a bit more of a side plot to the rivals making a bet as to who can sleep with the girl Ashleigh first. When they made that bet the first thought that came into my mind was 'I bet Shakespeare wrote a play along those exact some lines' (I don't think he did, but it sounds like something he would do - though apparently in Love's Labour's Lost there is a competition as to who can get married first).
In fact, as I watched it, I could pick the two princes and their lackies, of course the lady that they are trying to court, and the mean duke in the form of the Sheriff, who while being defeated, is humiliated as opposed to being killed. Of course, the way that they attempt to woo Ashleigh has some intelligence about it as well. Mind you, I'm not sure whether you can put Wendel into a Shakespearian play since there didn't seem to be the concept of the nerd back though, though there are some suggestions that you might have the bookish philosopher fall into that category (though that doesn't seem to be a Shakespeaian trope).
Mind you, I'm not sure what Roger Ebert meant when he referred to the women as being objects because I thought that Ashleigh did have a character beyond being a pretty face. Like, yeah, there were characters there that were the pretty faces, such as the two girls that hung around the two rivals (in fact the male characters seemed to be less memoriable, what except for Mother Tucker, but that was actually a pretty cool name).
Look, despite my arguments that you could literally rewrite this as a Shakesperian play, it is still a college sex comedy, and it is pretty much what you would expect from the eighties. Yeah, just because you can say that the plot comes across as Shakespearian, doesn't mean that it has been executed in a way Shakespeare would.