Kinda gross, but kinda funny...coulda been better tho.
Added 6/20/2009
I agree with the reviewer who said that the comeuppance against the frat came a bit too late, so it was a bit rushed at the end...and some parts were downright gross (the cleaning up the house, the pig crap, the hazing stuff "Bearcat" puts them through...he gives new meaning to the word "bodyshot", ewwww, the scene of a drunken Chicken Little, which was just as low and sad as it was gross)...some of this movie was downright mean...even of Chicken Little getting slapped by his overweight friend...who would keep putting up with that crap??
But some of it was funny, and the girls were hot (I liked the 3 focus girls)...even an appearance by Verne Troyer (Mini-Me) was fun...this movie raises the stakes for college party debauchery to a high (or low??) level...so much so that it makes "Revenge Of The Nerds" (it's obvious precursor) look G-rated, and the "American Pie" flicks look downright tame!!
I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't so gross or mean, but it had some fun bits and the comeuppance was satisfying. Drake Bell was cool and his girlfriend deserved to be dumped.
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COMPLETE GARBAGE
Added 3/10/2009
I'm not going to go in detail on this movie like most reviews, cause this movie is so terrible that it doesn't need to take anymore time from my life. Quite plain and simple, pass on this movie. It sucked BAD! I can't explain how awful it was. It seemed like a k-mart version Super Bad. No wait, more like a Dollar Store version. Just plain crap. I gave it one star, because I couldn't give it 0 stars. It's so bad, it's not even pirate worthy.
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These Animals Need A New House & Should Have To Go Back To School...
Added 3/3/2009
Honestly, I'm surprised the current direct-to-video headliner "National Lampoon's..." wasn't above the title. Take three typical high school seniors, the fat wisecrack kid (think Jack Black & Chris Farley had a son), the nerdy kid (played by Kevin Covais, American Idol 5th Season finalist who no one really took seriously), and the "normal" kid (Nickelodeon escapee Drake Bell), and place them in the same old story of spending their first weekend ever in the future college they wish to attend and all the equally stereotypical hot drunk girls and mean as Hell frat guys they encounter. If you've seen Animal House, Revenge Of The Nerds, or any film that had some member counting on getting that scholarship and drunkenly blowing it badly, you've already seen this film. However due to the changing times, the extremely high levels of nudity and sexual situations, surprisingly high in let's say "alternative lifestyles", will remind you why films like this today need that little over-the-top extra to even get mentioned in the same paragraph as those real college classics. But when it boils down to it, it does have a couple of laughs, groans, and guffaws, but nothing to make you really want to see it a second time. It's disc has both the Unrated (that really, really pushes it) and a Rated (will anybody choose/see this version?) plus a gag reel, half of which is already in the end credits ala a Burt Reynolds film. For a rent it's not too bad, but the filmmakers here should go back a grade to see why college films succeeded so much in the first place without trying so hard to blow us away with gross-out jokes than actually well-written ones.
(RedSabbath Rating:6.0/10)
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This comedy is about three high school teenager's wild adventure at Fieldmont University, where they run into trouble and cause mayhem. Meeting cute girls and partying wasn't there only obstacle at this weekend trip...
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No Lampoons in this national. Or even a national!
Added 2/12/2009
I saw this on iTunes and thought it may be funny. I haven't liked any of the national lampoons movies that have come out lately. Actually I didn't even like Animal House. That was before my time though. I'm only 23. Ok enough talking about random things. Here is my review of the movie.
Firstly let me say that I have never heard of any of the actors in this movie. I think that really helped. Sometimes is good to know the actors in movies. Other times though, I think it's good to have nothing to compare them to. The main actors in this movie are Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, Andree Moss, Carolyn Moss, Wendy Talley and Kevin Covais. One of the guys in this movie looks just like Johnny noxville some of the time and looks and acts like Robert Downey Jr. other times. Ok, though I have never seen any of these actors in anything. I think they do a pretty good job on this movie. They seem a little rough around the edges. This makes the movie even better. Rather than taking an actor that does a certin type of comedy that we all know and are used to. They bring these guys. Nice job!
The movie is about 3 friends. Two are going to check out a college together. One of them has set everything up and he needs to go so his parents leave him alone. The other is looking forward to seeing the college also. They have a third friend who tells them there losers and that he isn't going. That is until another guy comes and tells them about the great things that have happened to him when he went to a college. The third boy now wants to go. So off they are. They were all ready to stay in this dorm. Thanks to the one friend who set it all up. When they get there and go into the room though.... The guy there is doing something. I won't say what. But they choose not to stay there. So one of them has a brother that used to go to this frat. They go there and ask if they can say. Eventually they get to sleep there. There stay does not come easy. The frat guy all haze them and try to make there life as hard as possible. The stuff that they do is pretty funny. The main boy in the frat takes getting used to though. He does lines from various movies and even a cartoon. I didn't know what I was supposed to see him as. Eventually they think of a way to get back at the frat house for everything that have been through.
So, why the 3 out of 5? I'll tell you why. First of all the movie played for like 1:30:55. At about 1:17 they realize that they can get back at the frat. I thought that's what the movie was about. But they try to fit so much in, in such a short amount of time, that it just feels rushed. It kind of goes through some of the parts very fast. Like showing them doing stuff while playing music. Second, a couple of the actors have so many personalities. I didn't know what kind of person they were supposed to be. They did leave it open for another movie though. So let's hope they make another, that fixes the few small problems that this one had.
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