Truly Dreadful Film

Redundant and unnecessary.

best movie i've ever seen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson are not, and never have been, funny. Decent dramatic actors. But not funny. Stiffler, or whatever his name is, is not funny. Does he even have a career anymore?Smarmy Craig Kilborn has never been funny. Is he behind the counter at a Quik- E-Mart these days? King of Queen's wife is not funny. Fat. But not funny. Ellen Pompeo from Grey's Anatomy is cute. But not funny. Old School rips off far better movies: Animal House. Fight Club. Stripes. The Graduate.But just when I thought this cr#pfest was in danger of sinking to a 3- or 4-star movie, Andy Dyck shows up to ''totally redeem this movie'' to paraphrase a line from Dumb and Dumber. I would rank Andy Dyck alongside Gallagher and Carrot Top as the most obnoxiously unfunny humans on Earth.Credit where it's due: he drove this right down to 1 star. Writer/director/producer Todd Phillips must hate comedy, audiences or both.

Old School (2003): Dir: Todd Phillips / Cast: Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Juliette Lewis, Jeremy Piven: Plays like a followup to the superior National Lampoon's Animal House celebrating the decay of human decency. It is a comedy about carefree memories of generations gone by. Luke Wilson arrives home from a business trip and discovers his girlfriend engaged in an orgy. He moves out and finds a place near university campus. Vince Vaughn runs a stereo store and believes that he has the answers to their problems. They will start a fraternity and relive years gone by. Will Ferrell is their recently married friend who streaks naked through the neighbourhood after a drunken celebration at the frat house. Directed by Todd Phillips in the same vein as his Road Trip. Wilson plays off the doormat disposition while Vaughn throws out one-liners. Ferrell steals the film with a hilarious performance but we sympathize as he gradually wrecks his marriage. Juliette Lewis plays Wilson's ex girlfriend in a role that is hardly broad. Jeremy Piven plays the young snotty Dean but he has none of the comic conviction of a Dean Wormer. The humour drains when the climax involves settling down and studying. In National Lampoon's Animal House the fraternity is kicked off campus and they wreck the home coming parade. Recalling past events deserves more than a hopeless outlook on life. Score: 7 ½ / 10

I can't believe that people that are older than the age of 18 actually liked this movie. It is moronic, childish, and immature. Will Ferrell does his usual SNL acting, which wasn't to good in the first place. Everyone else seemed to be in this movie because they wanted the paycheck. Therefore, didn't take this job seriously and did not do the best job they could have. I think that everyone in this movie was trying to pretend that they were actually younger and more immature than they actually where. Adding to the actual negativitity of this movie. I don't know how to explain how terrible this movie is without actually using bad language and added swear words. The best way to describe it is that this movie is for the very immature and self centered losers who peaked in high school and couldn't climb out of being a kid and actually become a REAL Adult who is successful personally as parents and REAL Adults. I am very disappointed. Unless you are a 15 year old male kid then I suggest that you keep away from this movie.

The most distressing thing that happens when you're watching a comedy with a talented cast is to arrive midway through the movie and find yourself asking: 'Why am I not laughing?' That was the point I reached while watching "Old School", a raunchy comedy, with a wonderful cast that works hard but just can't seem to get the material off the ground."Old School" is a college frat house comedy, a far descendant of National Lampoon's Animal House, but focusing on a group of guys who are pushing 40 and can't seem to let go of the thrill of their college fraternity days. They are likable guys. There is Beanie (Vince Vaughn), a family man who feels trapped. There is Mitch (Luke Wilson), whose life changes after he catches his nymphomaniac girlfriend (Juliette Lewis) hosting an orgy in their bedroom. And there's Frank (Will Ferrell) once known as "Frank the Tank", a once-legendary party animal who is about get married and settle into a life of hanging curtains and picking through carpet samples.What lies at the heart of these guys is that they can't (or won't) let go of their glory years of wild parties, beer bongs and easy women. They refuse to grow up and move on. Mitch, who owns and appliance store with Beanie, buys a house near Harrison College, his old alma mater. However, after a particularly successful party, he is informed by the college's Dean Gordon Prichard (Jeremy Piven) that the house is zoned specifically for college social functions. He also reminds Mitch how he and his buddies use to pick on him back in college and with that, he happily presents an eviction notice.What to do? The guys come up with a plan to keep the house and rekindle their campus lifestyle. Through an administrative loophole they find that they are able to form a fraternity, which they do out of misfit student, middle-aged co-workers, and an elderly retiree who is somewhere north of 90. Many of these guys (including Mitch, Beanie and Frank) are not even students at Harrison, but that's part of the loophole, you see.What follows is suppose to be a raucous college campus comedy but the movie is so erratic that it never finds its center. Director Todd Phillips, who has made better films than this like "The Hangover" and "Starkey and Hutch", missteps here because his scenes don't come together out of characters or situations. They are a series of gags built out of raunchiness and bad taste. That's not a bad thing, but when the scenes don't come together, it just feels like a series of sketches.The lack of drive keeps the movie from building any kind of momentum. Plus, the characters, especially Mitch played by Luke Wilson, is so laid back that we never really understand how he got his reputation as a legendary party animal. Vince Vaughn's Beanie is believable as a party animal but he is so angry that you wonder how he ever has time to have fun. And Frank is such a genial good guy that we want him to break away from this pack and live his own life, or his own movie. He's the butt of embarrassments, especially when he gets drunk at a party and streaks down the middle of the highway. He has a scene late in the film when he is hit with a tranquilizer dart and ruins a kid's birthday party that is so labored and so mean that I found myself feeling sorry for the kid.I know I sound like a grump. I realize that I'm suppose to just sit back and enjoy these guys, but the movie never really goes anywhere. For me, I just didn't laugh very much. Wait! I did laugh at one gag involving the pledges who are required to tie cinder blocks to a certain portion of their anatomy and then drop them off a ledge. The payoff was so unexpected that I laughed. It was the one genuine laugh in the whole movie. If the screenwriter could have built on that, they might have had something.