ROCK AND ROLL FANTASY (1994) *

Alex (April Lerman) is a bookworm sorority sister who has a crush on rock star named “Jamie Z.” (a male model known only as “Attila”).  His manager, Red (Mark Stulce) has had it with his temperamental behavior, and he sets out to kill Jamie to collect on his insurance policy.  After a near-fatal accident, Alex bring Jamie back to her sorority house and winds up inadvertently kidnapping him.  Eventually, he doesn’t seem to mind it so much and the two wind up falling in love.

Rock and Roll Fantasy was the first film by director David Michael Latt, who went on to found The Asylum.  It basically set the groundwork for their teenage comedies, not to mention the company itself.  Unlike their recent output, there’s no real T & A to help get you through the sluggish comedy scenes.  

The plot is belabored and slow moving, not to mentioned farfetched and stupid.  Whole scenes aimlessly play out without much of a payoff, and the stilted acting and dialogue do nothing to keep them moving.  Many of the gags are tired and/or just plain unfunny (like the one involving the “Indian” bartender).  The scenes of the kidnapped rock star forming a bond with his nerdy captor are a chore to sit through too.  The best scenes involve the gangster who’s trying to teach his son the tricks of the trade like “how to dig an unmarked grave”, but they are few and far between.    

Attila has the rock star look, but he definitely isn’t an actor.  Lerman isn’t much better.  Without a lead to care about, it’s hard to give a shit about any of this.  It’s even harder to swallow the fact that they fall in love.

AKA:  Sex Pot 2.  AKA:  Sorority House Party.