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"Stitches" fails on just about every level that a film can fail on. It is not clever in the least, it is visually drab, and it has literally no plot for the first 80% of the movie. Over an hour has passed before anything resembling a story structure begins to appear. The preceding hour is filled with tired 80's cliches: spying on naked girls, a sidekick whose name references a body function, and even the evil dean. There truly isn't one original concept in this movie; the main character's name is Bobby Stevens for crying out loud! (SPOILER)Suddenly, 7/8ths of the way through the film, Bobby is kicked out of school; he apparently pulled one too many not-quite-funny pranks. Obviously, he must find a way to get back into medical school (how exactly did he get into medical school in the first place?) Now I am no dimwit, but I have no idea why the events that then take place should result in him getting back into school. He participates in an abruptly introduced pageant that inturrupts the dean's big presentation. Also, of no less importance is the fact that a man literally rises from the dead with no explanation given. The fact that he does this serves to humiliates the dean, but apparently doesn't arouse the interests of medical experts at the school. Lastly, it must be said that the boom mic operator who worked on "Stitches" needs to be removed from his respective union if he hasn't been already. There were so many egregious examples of the mic poking it's way into the frame that it became the biggest laugh of the film.

I should conclude my comments by saying that while "Stitches" is a terrible, terrible film, I actually enjoyed myself quite a bit while watching it. If you're looking for a deliberately lousy, campy film littered with foolish cliches and clumsy innuendo, I'd heartily recommend checking this one out. But just so that you don't get confused, the dean DOESN'T like pranks, and Bobby Stevens DOES like to party.

Rod Holcomb mostly has worked as a TV director. For this film, he declined to use his name, instead going by Alan Smithee. Is it really that embarrassing? As bad as making the movie Chains of Gold, the only thing that John Travolta ever wrote?

Parker Stevenson, Geoffrey Lewis and Brian Tochi (yes, he of Takashi from Revenge of the Nerds, Leonardo the Ninja Turtle and Nagata from Police Academy 3 and 4 fame) are medical students running afoul of the administration, which would be Eddie Albert.

Robin Dearden, who would one day by Bryan Cranston's wife, is in this. So there's that. You learned something, even if these medical students didn't. It does, however, have a great open where the three medical madcaps dress up as cadavers and freak out an entire class.

I can accept cops being against the rules. For some reason, I can't do the same with doctors. I don't know what that says about me.