I have finally seen the worst movie ever.

People love movies that are so bad they're good. Two of my faves are The Van featuring Danny DeVito and nobody else and Stallone's Cobra, which has dialogue you can quote for years. I'll also throw in Vanilla Ice's abysmal Cool As Ice and From Justin to Kelly. These are the the kinds of bad flicks you can laugh at and enjoy.

But over the course of yesterday and today, I finally watched what I consider to be the worst movie I believe I will ever see, and it wasn't funny at all in a bad/good way. That it was supposed to be funny makes it even more painful. Ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking about the crap pile known as National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (a.k.a. National Lampoon's Movie Madness).

The culprit.

Now I haven't had faith in anything National Lampoon in ages. Would it be fair to say that European Vacation was the last truly funny film cranked out by said factory? At least I can say I grew up in a time when you could rely on the magazine still being amusing and getting to enjoy such flicks as Animal House and the first couple of Vacation movies. But this one was actually released in 1981 - straight to video - because the reviews were so terrible that MGM/UA didn't see any point in torturing the country with it.

Not good in anything.

So let me just list some of the things that are in this movie. Basically, the flick is made up of three short films, each parodying a certain genre. None of them are good or work. See if any of these items strike you as even mildly entertaining:

A guy makes his wife leave so they can both "grow." She becomes successful while he becomes a plant doctor and loses some of his kids along the way.

Gang rape by old dudes with sticks of butter.

A serial killer who leaves copies of his driver's license on all his victims' bodies.

Joint smoking, liquor swigging cops.

Robby Benson.

Henny Youngman doing his "Take my wife, please" routine yet again.

Rhea Pearlman in a cameo as a prostitute.

Peter Riegert having an affair with a 14-year-old Diane Lane.

Ann Dusenberry once again looking like a lost Gyllenhaal and wasting time in another "racy" flick.

Christopher Lloyd and Robby Benson singing "Feelings."

Richard Widmark cashing in with no payoff.

Oh, Robby.

I tell you, this movie is plain shit. I got to abuse myself with it thanks to it being OnDemand (TM). It was so bad I had to break it up over two days, and it's not even 90 minutes long. I literally fell asleep during the last 15 minutes or so. I thought I had seen bad National Lampoon flicks before, like any number of the one's they're still churning out these days, or even stuff from back in the '80s like O.C. and Stiggs, but this outdoes them all.

Not even Teresa "Goin' my way?" Ganzel's bare tits can save the day. And if anything, this movie solidified my belief that Ann Dunsenberry is one of the worst actresses of all-time. If you've never seen Basic Training, consider yourself lucky. That was another OnDemand disaster she was in. It also had Rhonda Shear. Ugh.