Delta Pi

The stand out best acting in the film was completely due to Ruth Gordon. The rest of the cast seemed, at best, amateurish in their delivery.

The story concerns a group of sorority sisters who are in debt to a loan shark. They contrive a plan to enter a mud wrestling contest, to pay off the loan shark. Ruth Gordon plays the ever "under the influence' housemother to these young women.

I do have to give the film credit in one area. It does show vintage 1980's styles to the 'max'. Enjoy it for some kitsch. But don't expect too much depth.

Although the movie was childish in parts, overall it was a great non-thinking movie.

You don't always have to have something that is an award winner for it to be good. Everything Ruth Gordon does is a winner, and Rex Meredith was wonderful in his part.

Will never be in the TOP 100 of all times, but a must see.

Try watching it and just have a good time. Ask a few friends over, have a drink, sit back, and expect to be entertained.

If you plan to be hyper-critical, this movie is not for you.

Watch how each actor molds their character into something that actors in the future will want to emulate. The script needed some work, but the actors saved it with their performances.

This movie was indeed "bad" when it was released back in 1985. Now, nineteen years later, it's just good IL camp. This movie is like a poster-child for "Cheesey 80's Movie". It is funny, sometimes unintentionally, and is an absolute perfect movie to watch with some friends for a good laugh. Some of the movie's highlights are; seeing pop-singer, Laura Branigan, smoke a joint. Watch Ruth Gordon eat pot brownies, smoke weed, cuss like a sailor and mud wrestle. And see how styles and fashions have changed and not changed over the last two decades. I recommend it "highly".

This film is poorly acted and has a real "home made" feel..it's about 5 steps below a "B" movie. Laura Branigan must have been convinced that this would be a good opportunity to break into films after spending 2 years in an acting school...her character is boring and her acting is quite hollow. To top it all off, she doesn't even sing in this film. Ruth Gordon shines, as always, even though there isn't much for her to do. The casting was questionable also - any film portraying college girls obviously much older than that who run to Las Vegas to save their sorority house by mud wrestling isn't worth your time. Laura Branigan even used a body double for her wrestling scenes...other antics include getting a rabbit high on marijuana, a man taping a cucumber to his leg to look like a big penis, and a party at the Sorority House where people dive into a baby pool filled with mud. Fun, fun, fun, people...

I usually enjoy camp/comedy films but I must say this 1984 release was not done very well. Ruth Gordon plays the Delta Phi house mom and her many talents were wasted in this low budget camp/comedy. The girls of Delta Phi are behind on their rent so they partner with a slick male entrepreneur (James Wilder) and head to Vegas as a team of inexperienced mud wrestlers to battle a team of pro female mud wrestlers who are managed by a veteran promoter who has ties with the mob, which means he always gets his way. I won't provide any spoilers but I will say that the grand finale was a bust (no pun intended).

I give it a disappointing 3 out of 10 IMDb rating.