Cougar Club

By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 10/30/2007

OPEN SKY/VIVENDI VISUAL
Street: Nov. 13
Prebook: now
> A not-so-sexy and not-so-funny straight-to-DVD sex comedy.

American Pie gave a name to the allure of women of a certain age—MILFs—and Cougar Club continues to exploit the idea. The cougars of this movie are a group of older women who enjoy getting naked and naughty with younger men. This is all well and good for recent college grads Spence (Jason Jurman) and Hogan (Warren Kole), who want to ditch their law office jobs to create an exclusive club of young men devoted to showing ferocious felines a good time. Yes, the idea is silly, but, unfortunately, it's not all that titillating or funny, which isn't wise when you're declaring yourself a sex comedy. Of note though is the wide range of performers who appear on screen, a bizarre mix that includes Faye Dunaway, Carrie Fisher, Norm Crosby, Joe Montegna, Jon Polito and Joanie "Chyna" Laurier. They all pop up for a few minutes (or more, in some cases) and then go away—probably far, far away from this uninspired genre.

Shelf Talk: Sex comedies continue to click with a target audience of overly stimulated young men, and the box art of Cougar Club plays that up to the hilt with shots of female flesh and a dangling red bra. The front sleeve of the unrated version also boasts the disc's topless menu pages, which aren't all that novel—we saw them a few years back on National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Old School—but should still capture some attention. Press materials promise a national TV campaign, which probably means some spots on such guyish cable channels as Spike and G4.

Comedy, color, NR/R (sexual situations, nudity, language, drug use), 97 min./95 min., DVD $26.99
Extras: blooper reel, outtakes, deleted scenes, topless menus
Director: Christopher Duddy
First Run: DVD premiere