The world definitely needed another "Harrad" film and it got one. This time around things are duller and the unintentional humour is unavoidably repetitious.
The plot: the four main characters have finished their first year and have been (relatively) successfully brainwashed; they go into the world to spread the word about peace, love and having sex indiscriminately. They talk about the system that needs changing - the same system that finances all their whims and free-loving existence, by the way. (Hippies were NEVER short on hypocrisy.) The most pathetic scene is probably when Doran (formerly played by Bruno Kirby, though a little less "dorkily") has an argument with his father in the latter's office; when he storms out, all of Dad's employees give Doran an applause for the moronic free-love hippie-speech he gave to his Daddy (they were all listening through a big speaker, which was on for totally unexplained reasons). The silly implication is that the employees were the radical "love-loving" workers/proletariat who were glad to have someone tell their capitalist boss what's right and what's not. This "metaphor", if we can call it that, is too embarrassing to watch. The dialog is so naive-sounding that at times it stoops down to the level of Latin American soaps. So it came as no surprise when eventually one of the characters says something like: "THERE IS NOTHING FILTHY OR DIRTY ABOUT THE NAKED BODY." In the 60s and 70s this trite little statement was the slogan for the confused, overly idealistic, dumb (young), slaves-to-the-trend masses, but nowadays it only comes out of the mouths of semi-insane prostitutes and strippers when they're guests on Jerry Springer's show.
This film could be a cult trash movie were it not for the dullness; too little happens, and the dialog is far too often soapy and too rarely funny - but always ridiculous.
The character Rohmer plays is totally absurd: here's this well-groomed, luminous, friendly WASP-ish girl, and yet she approached Doran because she wanted someone to buy her food because she's hungry as she has nothing to eat and nowhere to stay!
The plot: the four main characters have finished their first year and have been (relatively) successfully brainwashed; they go into the world to spread the word about peace, love and having sex indiscriminately. They talk about the system that needs changing - the same system that finances all their whims and free-loving existence, by the way. (Hippies were NEVER short on hypocrisy.) The most pathetic scene is probably when Doran (formerly played by Bruno Kirby, though a little less "dorkily") has an argument with his father in the latter's office; when he storms out, all of Dad's employees give Doran an applause for the moronic free-love hippie-speech he gave to his Daddy (they were all listening through a big speaker, which was on for totally unexplained reasons). The silly implication is that the employees were the radical "love-loving" workers/proletariat who were glad to have someone tell their capitalist boss what's right and what's not. This "metaphor", if we can call it that, is too embarrassing to watch. The dialog is so naive-sounding that at times it stoops down to the level of Latin American soaps. So it came as no surprise when eventually one of the characters says something like: "THERE IS NOTHING FILTHY OR DIRTY ABOUT THE NAKED BODY." In the 60s and 70s this trite little statement was the slogan for the confused, overly idealistic, dumb (young), slaves-to-the-trend masses, but nowadays it only comes out of the mouths of semi-insane prostitutes and strippers when they're guests on Jerry Springer's show.
This film could be a cult trash movie were it not for the dullness; too little happens, and the dialog is far too often soapy and too rarely funny - but always ridiculous.
The character Rohmer plays is totally absurd: here's this well-groomed, luminous, friendly WASP-ish girl, and yet she approached Doran because she wanted someone to buy her food because she's hungry as she has nothing to eat and nowhere to stay!