A HAYSEED’S QUEST IN ‘PARTY ANIMAL’

For the record, the “The Party Animal” (citywide, MPAA-rated: R) has to do with an obnoxious hayseed college freshman’s desperate attempts to lose his virginity. After a series of smutty sketches, illustrating his efforts, he succeeds only too well.

The hard-eyed co-eds look more like hookers and go-go dancers than sorority girls. The hayseed is played by Matthew Causey, who, we are told (in all apparent seriousness), “studied film and cassettes of classic comedic actors, such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, to lend a farcical yet sympathetic dimension to his role as ‘Pondo.’ ”