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Everything a 17 year old guy would want to watch

Daniel G. Lebryk | 01/29/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Any guy over the age of 21 has seen this film 500 times, well I hope you haven't used your time that unwisely. The point, this story has been told over and over again, especially by National Lampoon.

This is at best a 2 star movie if you put a teenagers hat on (as an adult it's probably -10 stars). It's got the whole thing, drinking, fights, parties, jiggle, urination, and seriously fake college campus equiped with awesomely bad fraternities and sororites.

The back story, three high school seniors visit a campus and pretend to be college students. They fake pledge to a fraternity, and they get three girls. In the end they get found out and the three girls fall in love with these kids. In the meantime, the fun happens.

It is just stupid enough for guy humor. There is absolutely no relationship between this and what really happens in college.

On a positive note, the shots are all in focus, the sound is reasonably well recorded, and the lighting is good (that can't be said for many many films, including huge budge films). In it's genre, it's mid to bottom of the pack.

The comparison to American Pie is really wrong. It's probably just barely as good at the 4th Amerian Pie movie (they got progressively worse)."

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Eric Ericson | Venice, Florida USA | 03/03/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"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)"