Old School
Cast
Luke Wilson as Mitch Martin
Will Ferrell as Frank
Vince Vaughn as Beanie
Ellen Pompeo as Nicole
Sara Bryan as Amanda
Sydney Bryan as Amanda
Craig Kilborn as Boyfriend
Juliette Lewis as Heidi
Leah Remini as Lara
Directed by Todd Phillips
Rater #2 has description and Review
Rater #1
7/10. I found this movie hilarious. I read Rater #2's review, and obviously he didn't like it, but he is one of the few. The whole entire theather was cracking up at the stupid jokes, but hey they were funny!
I agree with Ratet #2 on one thing: There was no depth to the characters. They were all thrown in there, and never explained. Luke Wilson was good. He seemed like the perfect person to get stuck in a mess like this. Will Ferell was funny as Frank "the tank". He got drunk one to many times, and did some streaking. The rest of the characters, I really didn't know much about them. I thought Wilson's character sleeping with a high schooler whom he thought was in college, was funny. On top of that, it was his boss' daughter.
There were many jokes randomly thrown in like the cement block being tied to the men's genitals. Everyone dropped them, fat guy's dropped in manhole, Kerplunk! Something that I noticed was that everyone seemed to be cheating on everyone. I felt that the movie was to short, yet too long. It seemed to drag, and other times it didn't.
All in all, this was a funny movie, and if don't mind wasting an hour and a half of your life, go see it.
Rater #2
3/10. Haven't we seen this all before? Old School, from the director of
Road Trip, is basically Animal House for the new generation. Except
for the fact that Old School is very rarely funny, and is basically
just stupid, with idiotic sex jokes thrown in.
The plot is nothing, there's no reason to throw it in. Mitch (Luke
Wilson) just broke up with his girlfriend, so he starts an off-campus
fraternity. It's a throwaway plot, just like the rest of the movie.
There is not one redeeming quality of this picture. If it was a
mindless comedy that was FUNNY, I might be able to give it some
slack. But a mindless motion picture comedy that isn't funny, I just
feel sorry for. The whole theater was cracking up. I was about the
only one with a stone face.
This type of broad comedy I can usually handle, but I couldn't when
watching Old School. It has basically zero laughs and minor
characters that we don't know about! It's a mean-spirited fest that
is just horrible. The supporting characters, such as the people in
the fraternity, have zero depth and nothing that makes us care about
them. Plus, there were some fat jokes I didn't think were funny. If
you think that people with a cinder block tied around their genetalia
is funny, you should see Old School. Everyone else, if you are
dragged, at least you can witness a humorous (not funny, humorous)
parody of The Graduate.
Wilson, who, along with his brother Owen, I like a lot, was OK, but
it isn't his fault that he got stuck with such a stupid movie. I'm
not really sure how many times I can reiterate that this movie was
horrible. I think I've said enough, but I'll leave you with one last
thought: IT'S HORRIBLE!
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie
Rater #5
Has Not Seen Movie
Rated R for some strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Running time: 90 minutes
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