It took them two tries and more than four years to come up with another National Lampoon picture after the hugely successful Animal House. Result, National Lampoon’s Class Reunion gets sidetracked almost immediately thanks to a harebrained lunatic-on-the-loose plot in which the 1972 graduating class’ high school is turned into the semblance of a haunted house.
Motley crew here includes former wiseacre Gerrit Graham, who’s now become a snooty yacht salesman; Fred McCarren, a do-gooder with such a sparkling personality that no one can remember him; Miriam Flynn, a Little Miss Prim whose mind seems best suited to ordering refreshments for a sorority punch party; Stephen Furst, who gives the late John Belushi a run for his money in the girth department but not on the laugh meter.
Coming off a bit better are Marya Small as a blind nymphomaniac and Shelley Smith, who looks smashing in her silver evening gown and gets to do Diana Ross singing ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’. Even guest star Chuck Berry seems at less than his best performing a quick medley in the early going.
