Pledge This! (2007) poster

2007 · comedy

Pledge This!

Directed by William Heins1h 31m2007

At popular South Beach University, filthy rich super-snob Victoria English is the absolute queen of leading Greek student club, Sigma Sigma. In order to achieve her crowning ambition, winning FHM Magazine's annual best sorority, she must recruit atypical 'Sigmies' to fulfill the diversity criteria. Ambitious sycophant pledge Kristen Haas helps her attract 'losers' (too poor, ugly, unfashionable), who are cruelly put through excruciating hazing, without intent to actually enroll them. Gloria, the brightest and most assertive pledge, wins the heart of Derek 'baby Dick', Victoria's ideal, yet constantly abused boyfriend, whose bitch-addiction is cured by this alternative lover. Together they lead the revolt of the not-even-nerds.

Our read: Pledge This! (2007) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Cast

Paris Hilton Paula Garcés Kerri Kenney Sarah Carter Simon Rex

Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.

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DNA · twelve axes

How Pledge This! feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy

PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic

IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme

WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal

HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive

StakesIntimate ↔ Epic

HumourNone ↔ Broad

RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical

DensitySparse ↔ Twisty

WarmthCold ↔ Tender

AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want trashy 2000s sorority revenge comedy as ironic background noise.”

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Heads-upcringe humiliationnudityexplicit sexdrug use

Skip it tonight — Mean-spirited sex jokes and Paris Hilton cringe will feel grim, not fun.

If Pledge This! is your film

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(Eighties attitudes haven't aged for you)

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(You want raunch over sharp writing)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Blonde queen bee learns humility through rivalry

(You need actual jokes that land)

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