“Sorority Boys” is a terrible film. Not a single scene in it sheds any optimistic light on anyone involved. It plays with gender roles before it points a middle finger at the audience, expecting us to laugh.

First off, Harland Williams is not funny. After seeing this picture, I’m sure that he never will be funny. He most certainly doesn’t deserve another chance at proving his abilities in a starring role. Unless it’s a Farrelly Brothers bit part, I hope I never have to sit through one of his performances again.

In “Sorority Boys”(Touchstone Pictures), Williams plays Doofer. Doofer and two of his frat buddies are kicked out of their frat house after being accused of stealing cash from their other housemates. They then realize the best way to get back into the house is by cross-dressing. This way, they can get into their frat house’s hot-ladies-only party. Of course, their housemates will not recognize them. This would require logic, and according to “Sorority Boys,” logic never is a characteristic associated with a frat house.

It’s especially troubling to believe that Doofer, who’s been living in the house for nine years, is not recognized by anyone. The three cross-dressers look absolutely nothing like women.

Just when it looks like this film couldn’t get any worse, a new character is introduced – a feminist sorority girl named Leah (Melissa Sagemiller). She immediately appears as a villain because of her feminist beliefs. On top of that, she turns out to be bisexual.

Well, of course she’s bisexual. According to “Sorority Boys,” the only reason women are on this planet is to be sex objects to males and females alike. This is only one of the heartwarming messages this film conveys.

Leah’s lesbian relationship doesn’t work for overly obvious and ridiculous reasons. Perhaps it’s because her female companion is blatantly male. Once her experimental relationship begins its downward spiral, she begins to dump her feminist ideals. She goes as far as saying, “I thought dating a girl would be easier than dating a guy.” At last, the truth revealed! The only reason Leah is a feminist is because she’s scared of men and is too fragile to deal with their complexity.

Since the guys must learn to accept women and treat them like humans, Leah must dump her feminist ideals and throw herself into the arms of a man who has done nothing but lie to her and exploit her weaknesses for his own sexual pleasure. I guess this sorry display of compromise is supposed to act as a happy ending. It made me want to vomit.

The film’s director, Wallace Wolodarsky previously was a head writer on the very funny sitcom, “The Simpsons.” You may remember him from such episodes as “Last Exit to Springfield” and “Like Father, Like Clown.” Unfortunately, he didn’t bring any of his previous humor to this film because there’s not one funny moment in this two-hour waste of time.

A typical Hollywood producer has the ability to green-light about 12 films every year. It’s so sad to think “Sorority Boys” can become a movie while David Lynch has to travel to France to get support for “Mulholland Drive.”

Another thought: What happens when “Sorority Boys” is released overseas? To think France sends us “Amelie” and “Brotherhood of the Wolf,” and in return we give them “Sorority Boys” and “Slackers.” What a giant leap for American culture.

Overall, this film is an embarrassment to everybody involved in its creation. I’m not sure what’s worse – the fact that Hollywood keeps making this trash or that the public keeps taking it.