Adam And Eve Movie
Storyline
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She's got it all... and he's not getting any.
Disheveled musician and college student Adam (Cameron Douglas, son of Michael Douglas) goes out of his way to meet the beautiful Eve (Emmanuelle Chriqui) on campus. In no time, the two are in love. Everything goes swimmingly except in the bedroom, where Eve asserts her right to remain a virgin until she's ready. Adam—though deferential—takes her requirement personally and demands to know what "ready" means. The pair go on like this for months, with Adam remaining true to his passion for Eve, despite howls of protest from his degenerate housemates (among them Jake Hoffman, son of Dustin Hoffman)...
| Cameron Douglas | Adam |
| Jed Bernard | Bartender |
| James DeBello | Coffee Shop Employee |
| George Dzundza | Eve's Dad |
| Mike Elling | Vaughn |
| Dan Gunther | Professor |
| Allan Havey | Adam's Dad |
| Jake Hoffman | Ferguson |
| Brian Klugman | Munch |
| Chad Lindberg | Freddie |
| Joshua Wade Miller | Collin |
| Branden Williams | Billy |
4.50 out of 10 (1082 votes)
Visitor Reviews
I just saw this horrid excuse for a National Lampoon movie................
posted on 16 May 2009I admit when it comes to watching straight to video National Lampoon movies nowadays, it's expected to be something zany for the average couch stoner to watch on a Saturday when there's nothing else to do. This was advertised as a "Hilarious comedy in the spirit of Animal House and Van Wilder", and anyone who has seen Adam & Eve knows that we've been duped. Duped to no end. There were no laugh out loud moments of hilarity. The editing was horrid, the dialogue was horrid, and the music montages were too often. We get it, she's a virgin and needs to ponder if she's ready, while thinking back to the moments she felt secure with him... But did they need 8 separate montages throughout the movie to say it? That part killed me worse than the fact that this "abstinance love story" was nothing more than a way for someone to tag the National Lampoon name to a bad flick that most likely needed to recoup as much of it's low budget as possible. I guarantee there will be a lot of horndogs hoping for boobies and hi-jinx to grab it from the shelves, only to be disappointed when nothing funny or exciting happens well into the film. I sat through it, cringing and bored, hoping for a possible "hilarious" catchphrase to use one day. All I got was lethargic, disappointed, and an ending to a movie that sucked as bad as the main character's blue balls.
sorry national lampoon fans, this is NOT worth watching
posted on 27 Feb 2009With great hopes of hearing that this movie was funny my roommates and i rented it. i would have rather watched grass grow, hung myself, or stab myself in the eye with a knife then watch this movie. the plot was weak at best, the acting was horrible. the big scene you wait the entire movie for was worthless. the only thing that held this movie together was the character of eve (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and the character munch (Brian Klugman). munch did some funny things, not laugh out loud funny but things that you wish you did in college. the character of eve was very attractive however lacked in acting. if you really want to waste a hour and a haft of your life go head watch this movie, but it frankly sucks. i've seen some bad movies, and this is surly on my top 3 all time worst movies list, hands down.
since when does National Lampoon make love stories?
posted on 26 Jan 2009Very plainly and very simply this movie is BRILLIANT!!! THis movie is not a comedy. IT is a love story, a true love story in disguise. The college dorm room setting... disguise. The maker, National Lampoon, a disguise. Here is the equation. Life is about love and life is also about pain. This movie is about both of them. This movie illustrates the feelings of love and the pain that goes along with it that we experience in life. The viewer must watch this movie for what it is... not for what it is not. The viewer must watch this movie with an open mind and not expect a comedy. This movie is much, much more than that. This movie couldn't be more about real life if it tried.
A B grade B movie
posted on 16 Sep 2008No one expects a movie with National Lampoon in the title to be high theater, but most National Lampoon movies are funny in a low brow way. "Adam and Eve" couldn't cut the mustard. Emmanuelle Chriqui is GORGEOUS, but that alone couldn't save the movie. The love story is sweet, and the chaste Eve is treated in a respectful way, but the script wasn't funny, the supporting characters were not funny. George Dzundza, who I remember fondly from his Law and Order days, was wasted in this film. The male lead seemed too stoned and apathetic to care about anyone. Thank God this movie was on Starz and I didn't have to pay for a ticket.
One part of story was excellent...
posted on 17 Apr 2008The moral of the story, and the main plot point between the two main leads, playing Adam & Eve - told very well, and acted out well. The rest of it? I don't know. Guess it is National Lampoon drivel.So watch the movie for the interplay going on and the well written story about waiting for the right one to have sex with first, and when you hold off, the complications that arise in the male partner. I have been there before myself. And I know what he is feeling. Except now I can handle it with more of a level of maturity. So that is why you should watch this. It is a realistic portrayal of that kind of happening, in many relationships today. Albeit less than a few decades ago, but it is still happening around us...I connected and cared for these two main characters, Adam & Eve, but the rest? Who cares.
Don't waste your money or time
posted on 05 Feb 2008My girlfriend and I picked this movie up at the video store thinking to ourselves "This should be funny, National Lampoon is genuinely funny for those boring afternoons". We were sorely disappointed.From the get-go, this movie looks like it could have potential. No. Stop thinking that. The acting is horrid, the jokes are not funny (I can't even think of a moment where I laughed, nor my girlfriend). We sat in disbelief as we waited for a joke to come, or possibly this movie to even get better - but no. The "National Lampoon" name was obviously tagged on so someone would actually watch this. Well that worked.To sum this up, I watched the rest of this movie hoping for something funny (my girlfriend walked off and did something more constructive), something to justify the $5 I wasted on this. In the end, this one found its way back to the video store and I insisted that the movie was scratched so I could get another movie that would redeem that $5. Don't watch this movie, unless you're looking at how "not" to make a movie.
Chriqui is the bright spot in this frat boy comedy
posted on 18 Jan 2008I am only giving this one a 5 out of 10 because of all the disgusting frat boy humor. I can take frat boy humor, but in moderate amounts. I don't think many women want to know what a guy's balls smell like after at least a week of no bathing, anymore than a guy wants to know what a tampon left in for a week might smell like. Ugh! The one bright spot in this flawed comedy is Emmanuelle Chriqui. I don't know what draws her to so many frat boy comedies, but she is a very lovely, talented and charming actress who probably gets less respect that she deserves. She nails the realistic emotions of virgins everywhere. We were all virgins at one time, and it's true: For some reason, we just don't want to do it until that right, perfect (or as perfect as can be) moment comes. There are issues with intimacy, fear of being naked (figuratively, not physically) and the terror that once you open up and reveal your entire body and soul, that person will only betray you.I don't know what attracted Eve to Adam at all. He was just another damaged-goods frat boy with so many tattoos that it only made him look trashy. His haggard face also suggest a really rough lifestyle that included too much booze and probably some drugs too. He and his roommates are a bunch of slobs who lay around all day drinking, eating junk and watching porn.SPOILER AHEAD! It's just an opinion, but she was way too good for him and should not have even given him the time of day. Or maybe his tattoos and "rode hard and put away wet" appearance is what attracted her. As a character, Adam does seem sweet and sincere at times, but there just didn't seem to be anything that made him a standout. I didn't see anything special to fall for. He even cheats on Eve (or at least he thinks he did) with a gal that looks more to be his type, which is cheap and trashy.If Chriqui hadn't been in this film, I probably wouldn't have bothered, as I have never heard of any of the other cast members, save Chad Lindberg, who I enjoy in most of his other stuff. I might have even liked the movie better if Lindberg had been the lead male role. At least he isn't an illustrated man.
Oh my God, I can't believe I'm watching this
posted on 12 Jan 2008The movie is playing as I type this. How I netflixed this I have no idea, I think it was the National Lampoon tag. This is the worst move I've seen...ever. This is worse than Demolition Man, worse than Sleepless in Seattle, worse than The Replacements. I can't believe how bad this movie is. I thought the beginning was a lead in, and she was going to have a penis or something, but I'm slowly realizing that this movie is serious.The acting has got to be some sort of b-league intro to acting class rejects. I can't believe Michael Douglas's son is this bad. I might get really hammered to see if I find this more amusing, but I doubt it. Maybe they're going for the college stoner crowd. But are you kidding me?!?I hate myself for having sat through it this long.Charlie
Douglas is horrid
posted on 23 Dec 2007You would think that acting would be in Cameron Douglas' genetic code with his Dad and especially grandfather being talented actors. That is what I thought going into this movie. With the past successes of National Lampoons with Chevy Chase, Animal House, Van Wilder and coupled in this movie with the lovely Emmanuelle Chriqui and my expectations were high. So disappointed. Douglas is absolutely horrid. Quite obviously he received this job based solely on his last name. You will sit there hoping the movie gets better, but it does not. Don't waste your time with this one. "Pathetic" really doesn't do this film justice.
Romantic Comedy
posted on 07 Dec 2007I liked Adam and Eve because it is a nice romantic comedy which contains college humor as romance ass-well. It maybe just gets a little boring, and the relation between Adam and eve does not really develops true the movie, but maybe that was the whole point? I thought the acting was nice but don't know much about it, why does this review has to be 10 lines?To all who are saying this isn't National Lampoon enough: Does it has to be? What's wrong with a nice Romantic Comedy? For all those who just want 2 C something fun new movies Sex Drive and The Hangover are very nice, also Yes-Man is a good one if you want to have a good laugh.Conclusion: NICE movie, watch it. I enjoyed watching it and I give it a 7/10.
Derived Plot - But Great Realism
posted on 19 Nov 2007Plot & Pacing are typical of your straight-to-video flick.What's great with this movie is how it often takes typically-cliché college-movie scenes and executes with some modern-realism. Anybody who's been to college and partied their ass off will agree. Notice the trashed house, random convo's about pubic trimming and wiping, and even the party scene is realistically filmed without the normal clichés (spare the band). The career fair scene especially struck home...can't tell you how many friends visited after graduating telling me to "enjoy it while it lasts, the real world sucks." Too bad the plot sucks, but the guy who wrote this clearly has been to college, and tranferred his experiences well to the film. Worth catching if you & some friends have a "hazy" movie night.
Give it a shot
posted on 17 Nov 2007Okay, so this wasn't like all the other National Lampoon movies, like it was hardly funny...at all. However if you go into it knowing that, then it's actually a great movie. And it's also a slow movie, just a warning, but I loved it. It's a movie I will always remember this movie and certain parts from it, there are many fabulous words of advice (probably more of a chick flick, I don't think most guys would wait this out) But honestly, don't just ride it off. I'm a teenager, I love the funny movies out like all the other National Lampoon movies, this one is just a bit more...real? Than the others? I would give it a shot for sure, when you think you're in the mood for it of course (:
OK film but it is not National Lampoon Material
posted on 15 Nov 2007When I think of National Lampoon I think of school-boy jokes, smut, innuendo, gross-out scenes and heaps of gratuitous flesh, beer and stupidity. It's the kind of thing I found outrageously funny at 13 (and still do 40 years later). There is scarcely any need for acting because the "actors" are playing themselves. But Adam and Eve is not like that. It has a plot, it has some character development, it even has some real acting in it. I enjoyed the basic premise of the story even if it has been done a hundred times before. It's an old theme, and it can do with re-examining on a regular basis as society changes (or doesn't). It had a few (relatively tame) gross-out scenes and some funnyish scenes but mostly it had what no National Lampoon should ever have: subtlety. Not great cinema, but a bit of good fun.
very funny romantic comedy
posted on 04 Oct 2007I was lucky enough to screen this movie a while back. The raw cut was very impressive. I thought it would be worthy of a future theater release. Comparable to the great Adam Sandler romantic comedies, but with more of an Animal House feel. This movie has many actors that you would recognize from other movies (like the dude driving the Jetta in fast and furious) or TV (like the hot chick in Entourage) and obviously Michael Douglas' son - Cameron. This is definitely not a talentless production, rather one of those rare occasions where a few young talented actors come together and show some signs of what will make them future movie stars. I cannot wait to see the final release. There are scenes in this movie that will bring a lot of us guys back to our college days. Also great for women who would like insight into the dumb things guys do and talk about when they get together with nothing but time on their hands; great times and lots of laughs. This movie catches this environment like few movies I have seen. Highly recommended.
Unconventional romantic (sexual) comedy.
posted on 09 Aug 2007First of all, I couldn't "find" or dig the "National Lampoon's" trademark through all the way. I didn't find some jokes at the level of a NL movie; still, I think this is a clever and funny romantic comedy that has the occasional and effective sex jokes that surround the main couple of the movie.The principal plot deals with Adam insisting on taking Eve's virginity while she thinks she's "Not ready" and prefers cuddling after making out. Yes, it sounds she's a c*** teaser but she has her very personal reasons. Anyways, Adam totally wasted cheats on Eve and gets a viral infection (TSD) but has a hard time telling it to Eve.One thing leads to another and in the end they make up and have sex. Wow, I surely want a girlfriend like Eve! Emmanuelle Chriqui is extremely hot, sexy, cute, and delivers a believable performance. Cameron Douglas does what he can. The direction is plastic and does not offer anything new, nor the soundtrack or sub-plots.Watch it only if you don't have anything else to do or if you have the hots for Mrs. Chriqui. God, she's so PERFECT.
Do not waste your money on this one
posted on 04 Jun 2007This was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I obviously wasn't expecting this National Lampoon film to be anywhere near as good as Van Wilder (really funny movie--a must see) or even Dorm Daze (which was okay, not extremely great), but this one was just pathetic. The storyline (girl chooses to stay a virgin but her boyfriend isn't keen on that idea) seems like it would be interesting, but without some comedy it was made out to be just plain awful and perhaps too realistic. The characters were the typical college kids; nothing too extravagant. I must say that my favourite thing about the whole movie was the choice of music played-that's all! Boring, pointless and not at all comical pretty much sums up this lackluster film. Honestly, unless it is the only movie you can get your hands on to watch, don't waste your time or money on this!
This is not the comedy that it was labeled to be.
posted on 17 May 2007This is not the "wildly hilarious" comedy that was promised on the DVD cover. This is a relationship movie that has very few funny moments. I was expecting something along the lines of Van Wilder, but this movie is pretty serious.However, the acting isn't bad, and I found myself actually caring about what happened to the characters, though I think I would have enjoyed the story more if they had left out Adam's disgusting house mates. But the gross factor goes along with the National Lampoon tag, I guess.Overall, not bad if you have nothing better to watch. But if you're looking for something funny, you get more laughs out of RV. Seriously.
this movie sucked
posted on 03 Apr 2007I loved National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Animal House so I thought "Oh, this must be an awesome movie!!" When me and my friend started it, we thought the beginning must be a lead in and the plot would start taking off soon. Unfortunately, this bullshit made up the entire movie. The acting in this movie was horrible-the guy couldn't act to save his life and is using his father's name to actually get parts in Hollywood. The girl's performance was okay, but she has basically screwed over her entire reputation because she chose to be in this movie. If you know what's right for you and don't want to waste $5 at Blockbusters, never ever rent and watch this movie.
Shame on you, National Lampoon!
posted on 14 Nov 2006I rented this movie thinking it was going to be a typical National Lampoon's movie (lots of laughs, college humor, the same means of Animal House). Instead, I got a movie that sounded like a sex ed documentary, because it was too melodramatic to be considered a romantic comedy. Adam (Cameron Douglas) didn't seem to be the "sex crazy guy" described in the movie summary in the back of the box. Eve (Emanuelle Chriqui) character was okay because of the message she wanted to bring up to the audience. Adam's buddies weren't present in the movie that much, so we don't get enough feedback of Adam's life BEFORE meeting Eve.I'll give this movie a 1 out of 10, because I cant give it a 0. I'm still upset about the name "National Lampoon" in the box.
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Definitely not National Lampoon
posted on 05 Jun 2009If you check the other comments, you'll hear about this being a great romantic comedy. It's not. As a romantic comedy, it barely passes muster. The laughs are few and far between, the plot is completely formulaic, and the only thing "National Lampoon" about this film is the title. Douglas is wooden as Adam, although Chriqui is very convincing as Eve. The frat-house shenanigans are tame beyond belief when compared to other Lampoon college movies, and the girl waiting for the perfect time to toss in her V-card is an old theme that isn't freshened in any way by this film. After great National Lampoon titles like "Van Wilder", "Animal House", and the "Vacation" movies, this one feels like the first attempt of someone straight out of film school.