Wasn't Saved By the Bell: The College Years pulled from network television after a year? What makes Paramount and MTV Productions think they can make it successful on the big screen?

Zack Morris -oops- Mark-Paul Gosselaar is up to his usual antics again as Cooper in Dead Man on Campus. The only thing this story is missing is Screech, Mr. Belding and a plot.

The story begins on move-in day at Daleman College. We first meet Josh (played by That Thing You Do's Tom Everett Scott), a naive and innocent college freshman. Josh, a pre-med major, who must have a B+ average to keep a scholarship.

Like many freshman during the first week, Josh is determined, he studies every night and stays away from beer, bongs and beer bongs. His roommate, Zack - oops - Cooper becomes a bad influence, however, with his non-stop partying, womanizing and lack of academic desire.

Josh soon joins Cooper's lifestyle and flunks his midterms. The plot finally thickens when Cooper realizes that if he flunks out of school he will have to join his father's septic cleaning business; and Josh realizes he will soon lose his scholarship and end up back at home.

While drowning their sorrows in a bar, they learn of an old college rule that states if a roommate commits suicide, the other roommates get straight A's for the quarter. Just like a Saved By the Bell moment, Cooper's eyes widen and his grin takes over his pretty face.

The boys spend the rest of the movie searching the campus for the person most likely to commit suicide. The extra room in their dorm becomes the home to many strange setups and plots.

The movie is, in one word, stupid. The plot takes many unnecessary turns and eventually runs out of gas. Although the setting on a college campus makes the movie tolerable, it has too many stereotypical characters, like Cliff (played by newcomer Lochlyn Munro), an out-of-control, alcoholic sex-driven frat boy.

Let's face the reality, folks. Saved By the Bell is gone, finished, dead. It only survives in reruns, and that is where it should stay. Zack - oops - Gosselaar should just stick to the Monday night TV movies; learn from A.C. Slater.