National Lampoon's Animal House R
John Landis and a cast of excellent actors, including the late John Belushi (Saturday Night Live), make fun of fraternities in the ultimate comedy of 1978 and maybe the best frat movie ever. Animal House is just nuts, a complete blowout of sense and taste, and a parody of all things establishment. (Teacher's boards, politics, food fights, adultery with older women, war movies, insane parades, and even underage relations are shockingly riffed). This is just a great movie, but not for everyone. Some stuffier gents will find it tasteless and not funny, but they're just stodgy. Having spent over a decade in college, this movie was just awesome! Not real life, but who goes to see real life in their comedy? Ha. "I'm a zit! (Pops food out of his mouth). Get it?" Ha. Crude humor is always cool.
Review by Adam Browne
Review by Adam Browne
Agreed: Animal House is dated though, and at times the pop references don't make sense, especially the politicians, but at leas those are archetypes of people that still act that way today. The idea of it being an unsettling farce more than laugh a minute comedy may bother some, but really it is an early 'gross out humor' comedy. Most current comedy involved body functions and the like. It was ahead of it's time. :)
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