Product Details

• Actors: Corey Feldman, Bronson Pinchot, Brian O'Halloran
• Directors: Vincent Scordia
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MTI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LB8TPE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,738 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hooking Up" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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HOOKING UP - DVD Movie

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you are looking for another American Pie forget it, July 24, 2010

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NathanBrazil "nathanbrazil" (Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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This is far worse than the American Pie movies. It's not funny, has very poor acting (which I expected). Don't waste you money. I'm not sure why this is unrated, as there is almost no nudity in the film. Where did the makers of H.O.T.S. and Bikini Carwash go?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Moo, August 31, 2010

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I bought 400 DVD's for 50 cents each when our local rental store went out of business. In that group there were some truly awful movies, but "Hooking Up" and "Confess" (2005) were by far the worst of the bunch (no contest). In fairness "Hooking Up" is slightly better than "Confess"; but only because it looks like the cast and crew are having fun.

It occurred to me during the painful viewing process that the whole project must be one huge inside joke. The three featured actresses (a term I use loosely in this case) have minimal physical appeal. Given the target audience, it seems inconceivable that such casting choices were unintentional. Perhaps the producers just wanted to get a laugh thinking about the disappointment of anyone who rented this thing for its promised exploitation potential, only to end up with a long episode of "The Animal Planet".

The main reservation I have about this theory is that the DVD has a bunch of features: behind-the-scenes, interviews, deleted scenes, outtakes, etc. In all of this stuff I did not detect the remotest sign of the presence of any intelligent life forms associated with the project. I've worked with more professional crews doing stuff for local 48-hour film festivals. So the staggering lameness of the whole production could have been quite by accident.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rated two for the cast and supplements, December 9, 2009

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Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Boulder Creek, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hooking Up (DVD)

But without hesitation one of the most tasteless attempts at meaningful teen/twentysomething entertainment this year. The casting and extras add a bit of glimmer to this comedy and as a whole this can give prospective filmmakers an idea of how to make a low-budget hormone flick.

The story follows a group of teens as they navigate their libidos through varying degrees of fulfillment (solo, couples and multiples). The big three cover art names include Corey Feldman, O'Halloran (Dante from the Clerks films) and Pinchot (I remember him most as Serge from Beverly Hills Cop I & III); The latter two playing subdued roles of their older selves, while Feldman gets significant screen time berating, beating and nailing every girl in the movie. Some of the dialogue will give the younger audiences a laugh or two, especially with the depth of honesty these guys indulge with each other - but overall the sequences are long and tedious.

The special features are extensive and include:
* 30 minute making-of that covers a solid amount of background material as told through an unnarrated series of clips and takes/second person cuts. Also has an anatomy of a scene - For as much as this film centers on a certain task bestowed upon men by one girl in this film, they actually show a decent clip on how they got it made.
* Approx. 30 minutes of deleted scenes, extended scenes, outtakes, bloopers and "pranks" (the main prank was lame, guess was a had-to-be-there moment).
* Large Pepperoni Pizza, a clip on the actual footage and background on the porn-within-a-film material.

Not sure (even after watching the supplements) if this was meant to be a help in making teens rethink certain decisions regarding the themes here, or if this was just a shallow attempt at enacting all the soft core scenes.