`Skulls' Is Empty-headed And Embarrassing  March 31, 2000|By
Michael Wilmington, Tribune Movie Critic.  Have you ever wanted
to join an elite Ivy League college secret society? Hobnob with
the young, rich and soon-to-be-mighty? Bond with bluebloods and
go through humiliating initiations with future U.S. senators,
corporate CEOs and Supreme Court justices?  "The Skulls," a
campus thriller for overambitious teens and gullible moviegoers,
may quickly cure you.  It's a nightmare shocker about the perils
of covert university groups, and it's nightmarishly bad. "The
Skulls" is a fast, slick, outlandish fiasco that starts out well
and then seems to drop right off a cliff, spewing out a barrage
of cliches long after its last feeble secret has been coughed
up.Starring "Dawson Creek's" likable Joshua Jackson as an
underprivileged, overachieving Harvard pre-law student drawn
into the world of elite campus secret societies, it's a
nonsensical modern noir that tries to be a "Parallax View" for
Y2K teens. In the first half