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Title: Too fantastical
Review: Interesting premise but carried to such fantastical extreme as to disabuse. The story deteriorates from a somewhat intriguing tale to imaginary nonsense. Director Cohen does say in his commentary that since nobody really knows what goes on in those "secret" societies at Yale, Harvard, etc. (and as a Harvard alum I have to add, nobody cares), Cohen and his colleagues could let their imaginations run free. Well, they did. Yale, meet the Addams Family and The Munsters. Morticia and Lurch are more believable than the Skullsters in this thing. Nicely photographed movie though, especially the ersatz Ivy League interiors, somewhat reminiscent of older edifices at the real Harvard. Kudos for cinematography. Thumbs down on plot. Thumbs up for Craig T. Nelson as Mandrake, Sr., a cad you come to relish hating.
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