DVD Review: Cougar Club

A couple of recent high school graduates’ plans fall through and they decide to form an exclusive club where older women are available for the shagging. A throwback to 1980s sex comedies that might should’ve stayed there as there very few laughs.

Spencer (Jason Jurman) and Hogan (Warren Kole) are best buddies who have just graduated from high school. Their future has been preordained in that Spencer is going to work for a prestigious law firm.

However, at Spencer’s graduation Hogan, who has an affinity for the older ladies, takes the attorney’s wife (Faye Dunaway, who should’ve known better than to appear in this dreck) into Spencer’s old tree house and bangs her until the wall falls off of the tree house at a most inopportune time. So now the duo finds themselves being referred to as “shit turds” and working for another group of sleazy attorneys (Joe Mantegna and Joe Polito) and doing grunt work. One of their duties is to deliver divorce papers to one of the lawyer’s soon to be ex-wives (Izabella Scorupco) and Spencer falls head over heels. Hogan gets the bright idea that they’ll gather up these attorneys ignored wives and other older lonely women and form an exclusive club where younger men will pay membership to get schooled in the ways of sex. Cougar Club is supposed to provide laughs as it titillates. The problem is that is really doesn’t provide much of either. Sure there are some topless shots (not counting the topless “guides” on the menus), but they seem too few and far between when compared to how the box art plays them up. This seems like a concept that would’ve fit better in the 80s when T&A films were all the rage. This one seems to be trying to harken back to those days, but the lack of anything sexy is what sinks the film. You may get more shots of boobs in the menus than you get in the entire film. I guess the filmmakers are a bit ageist since considering the premise of the film we’d be more apt to see someone the age of Faye Dunaway topless, but they only offer young, perky boobs (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

The cover art also uses pictures of women who wouldn’t be considered a cougar the way the film defines it. In fact it seems the filmmakers take great pains to make sure that no Cougar is nude. But I digress. The comedy is so painfully unfunny that you’ll be wondering whey you’re even watching the film since the titillation is pretty tame compared to other films of like mind. The Cougar Club is presented in anamorphic widescreen and is enhanced for 16x9 televisions. This unrated version features a menu that allows you to “choose your cougar (again a lot younger than the movie suggests)” and they appear topless in the menus. I think that this unrated moniker applies to the menus only and not the film. Special features include a 5-minute blooper reel, 3 minutes of outtakes, 3 minutes of deleted scenes, and the 2-minute theatrical trailer. Cougar Club is not one you want to join if you’re looking for laughs. If you’re looking for funny with some T&A you might want to consider American Pie (the first two, it’s being sequeled to death) instead.