Yeh, it's low-brow, cheaply made and often incredibly dumb, but at least Screen Test doesn't make any pretensions about being a low-brow, cheaply made, dumb teenage sex farce. And, actually, as these things go, it's pretty good.

Made in Chicago, the film tells the oft-told story of a bunch of horny teens who want to score with the chicks. They devise an interesting way to do it this time, though, by staging a casting call for a porno video they have no intention of making. What they get at the casting call is a real stew: some gorgeous chicks, a surgeon who wears leather and is into S&M, an old lady, a troop of Brownies and other assorted oddities.

One of the girls who gets a role happens to have a father who's a mob leader. When he discovers his daughter's involved in seedy proceedings, he gives our libido-driven lads an ultimatum: produce the footage of his daughter performing naughty things or suffer the consequences. Because of the trouble they're in the guys are put on the spot, and have to actually produce a porno flick.

There ain't  nothing special there—it's certainly the stuff that's comprised R-rated follies before, and probably will in the future. What Screen Test has going for it, however, is a sense of naughty humor that works at least some of the time. It's obvious director Sam Auster has his inspirations-Mel Brooks, Porky's, Hardcore—and he salutes them in rowdy, down-n-dirty fashion. He also takes the Airplane route, continually throwing dumb joke after dumb sight gag into the proceedings like the kitchen sink. In the realm of "Teenage sex comedy," one laugh for every ten jokes is good; here we have 3-for-10—not a bad batting average.

The women in the film are different than the typical Southern California bon-bons populating this genre these days. There's a blonde, 30-ish woman who comes off like a zaftig Teri Garr. There's a good-looking brunette who takes an existential slant on her acting, a sly tribute to a scene in Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam. And other unique lookers are also on hand.

Fans of softcore will probably laugh and lust at Screen Test. It seems that there's nudity in every third scene or so. Yeah, it's low-brow, chintzy and dumb, but you were expecting satire, not Sartre, right? You'll laugh.