133 - Splitz

    Warring sorority houses go through a competition to see who has to have their house torn down to make way for a sewage treatment plant.  A three-girl band, and their manager, get mixed up in this.
    Well, it's pretty bad, and I had a hard time paying attention near the end.  I'd probably say it's a cross between H.O.T.S. and Carhops.  Sadly, it's closer to Carhops.
       There was at least one instance of breaking the fourth wall, possibly unintentionally.
    The band is interesting.  At least they let the girls sweat while they played.  The drummer looked like she was kind of drumming.  The guitarist did a better job of miming the guitar part than I expected, and it was only obvious during the solos that she couldn't be playing.  The bass/singer was barely trying.  Most of the time, she was singing toward the camera, not toward the microphone.  She kept her hand in one place on the bass, and wasn't even fretting that position nicely.
    The evil school president had a very good gag - one that I would expect to see in The Simpsons.  Instead of pulling down a chart of the campus, as intended, she pulls down a chart of the cuts of beef on a cow.
    About 45 minutes into the movie, during the wrestling competition, we get the first nudity, followed by a brief shower scene.  It's completely unremarkable.
    Then at about 47 minutes, the movie gets weird.  The band, and their manager, go into a diner, where there's sort of a non-party happening.  Some people seem to be sleeping at tables.  The girls take the band stand, which is set up with instruments for some reason.  They launch into a song.  Suddenly, everyone sleeping wakes up, and goes into a choreographed dance.  (I noticed during the opening credits that there was a choreography credit.  It stood out.)
    To make things even weirder, as the song goes on, the male dancers are suddenly topless.  Then there's a topless guy playing a sax solo.  And that's always a hilarious sight.

    Came out in 1984… but it looks like a movie from the mid-to-late 70s.
    During the ending song, the band suddenly has a synthesizer.  And suddenly, the guitarist is much worse at miming.  And the drummer suddenly has a double bass setup.  And I noticed that she doesn't know about the crashes.
    I can't recommend this to anyone.