Harry here, the immature West Coast branch of AICN endorses this juvenile sex humor flick... However, here in Austin, the hub of cinematic intellecturismals, we are holding our... judgements right up close to the shorthairs, because we are not sex funny folks, we serious brain contemplators. Here be humor film funny shit for sure I hear. Read on...
Hey Harry, first time/long time…
I just got back from a screening of Dreamworks' "Old School" in New York's Loews Lincoln Center. You'll likely be flooded with reviews, but here's mine complete with a spoiler-free version.
Spoiler Free: The film is funny! Will Ferrell is one funny mo-fo and he achieves near Belushi-esque silliness here. If you want originality, try Emo Phillips. If you want a good story, impressive cinematography or 'good clean fun,' look elsewhere. If you're looking for a solid, gross-out, sex joke filled frat flick, this is IT!
Here come the spoilers:
Old School seems to set out in search of the good old days of Porky's, Animal House and even Revenge of the Nerds. Here and there, the gags really hit their marks, but mostly it feels like you've seen them all before. Still, they are pretty funny.
The story starts off with Mitch (Luke Wilson) finding out that his girl (Juliet Lewis) enjoys a good gang-bang while he's away. So he moves out and scores a big house on the outskirts of a college campus. Horny married friends (Will Ferrell and Vince Vahn) convince him to turn the place into a party pad. Soon, they are sort of forced to decide between starting a frat house or leaving the premises. With a bunch of misfit recruits (similar to Fight Club's space monkeys) they get crazy and silliness ensues.
There's plenty of nudity here. Much of it, you may not like considering that it comes from mostly men, unless that's your bag. We get the odd breast flash as well. Something that was fairly clever was first being given a hot ass to drool over then being informed in the following scene that it belongs to a high school chick who's also the boss's daughter.
Cameos from Snoop Dogg and Andy Dick make for some memorable moments. There's a bunch of defy-the-odds type hijinx and the assholes get killed in the end. All, as it should be.
Anyway, as I said, the story is crap and they don't reinvent the wheel either. But the gags are silly enough to be funny and frequent enough to be worthy of a pay-per-view at the very least. Maybe even a rental.
If you use this…call me…um,…I don't know…just don't call me late for dinner… or something.
K0NY
