It is understandable that many potential viewers of "Preppies" may think they will witness an exercise in extreme raunchiness. For one thing, the movie was a co-production with The Playboy Channel. Also, the movie was directed by Chuck Vincent, a prominent director of pornographic movies. Unfortunately, the movie is anything but erotic. Oh yes, there are several scenes of nudity, but the nudity only goes as far as toplessness, and none of the toplessness is erotic in any way. Also, there is only once scene of (onscreen) sex, and the participants in the scene are almost completely covered with blankets. But the biggest sin the movie makes is that it simply isn't funny. The actors are likable, but they say and do humor that is absolutely feeble. It doesn't help that the plot pretty much comes to a halt after the first ten minutes or so, and doesn't start up until near the last five minutes - the bad guy behind the scheme only shows up in both of those brief lengths of running time! Aside from the cast, the only other point of merit about the movie is that unlike other '80 sex comedies, this one hasn't dated as badly. Hope that doesn't make you want to watch this movie. If you still do, be warned - the DVD release of this movie doesn't appear to be an authorized release. (It looks like they simply copied a VHS rental tape of the movie.)
