Review – Krippendorf’s Tribe

This is the farthest anyone’s gone to make a situation comedy about academic misconduct since Animal House. This time, however, it’s the professor rather than the students who is breaking the rules. Richard Dreyfus plays an anthropologist who is compelled by circumstances beyond his control to invent a lost New Guinea tribe and then document its existence. The resulting high jinks are left to carry the bulk of the film without much support from either the acting or the script. It’s sort of cute, but not much more. If dinner theater has a celluloid equivalent, here it is. Mildly amusing