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Directed by: Todd Phillips Starring: Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Elisha Cuthbert I've seen this twice, and although I'd heard it improves on repeated viewings, I didn't enjoy it anymore than I did the first time around. Old School's humor comes in waves, and there are a few good laughs, but there's also plenty of time in between them. It spends far too much time trying to weave a plot together, and when you've got someone like Will Ferrell at your disposal, that seems like a waste. They would've been better to establish a basic premise and bare plot and then let it be. Vince Vaughn's all right, once again doing the same character that we've seen elsewhere (see: Dodgeball). Though I know it's rated R I found it to be pretty soft -- it's even tamer than something like Revenge of the Nerds. I didn't find a lot of the stuff very funny at all (Blue) and when the movie's only trying to be funny 50% of the time, missed jokes really hurt. It's definitely a rental, and if your buddies have built it up to be OMGTHEBESTCOMEDYEVER then expect to be disappointed. If you fast forward through the unfunny tacked on crap you might get a good 30 minute movie out of it. Sadly, 30 minutes of comedy is probably deemed acceptable by most movie-goers, and this movie gets labelled a "classic!!" alongside other films which manage to keep you laughing in every scene. Here's to hoping Anchorman doesn't suffer from the same affliction. RATING: 3.0 PROS: A lot of scenes are funny CONS: A lot of scenes aren't funny ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302886/ Bloated Pussy fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jul 8, 2004 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 14:24 |
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I didn't like it the first time I saw it, but I watched it again because of my sick crush on Luke Wilson and loved it. There are a couple of bad scenes but as a whole I'd say it's a pretty decent comedy, though Will Ferrell really was wasted here. They could have done a lot more with him and they didn't. 3.5/5
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# ? Jul 8, 2004 05:21 |
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Good comedy, kept me laughing for a majority of the time...which is what it set out to do. Premise is funny to begin with and the jokes could've been hit or miss; for the most part they hit right on and worked well. It was what it was, I wasn't going in expecting to see a masterpiece but I got everything I expected of it as a comedy. Very good rental. 4/5
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# ? Jul 8, 2004 08:36 |
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Friends and I saw this when it first came to DVD, not knowing what to expect, except that it looked good in previews. We were blown out of our chairs. It spawned the kind of hysterical-can't-breathe-bulging-eyed-coughing-headache-inducing laughter that you really hope for watching a comedy for the first time. Specifically we just went crazy when Seann William Scott popped in out of no-where and just his getup was incredibly funny, and then every loving word out of his mouth. And the absolute jackpot and easily the funniest piece of physical comedy I can recall is in this scene with Scott. It involves a firing dartgun, and Frank the Tank's swollen neck. We watched that instant over and over again. And that whole scene, over and over and over again. It is the reason I own Old School. Besides the knock-out jokes there are about a million little tiny jokes that come from the way an actor says or does something. Like Vince Vaughn high fiving the bride way too hard. His comments to the groom right before his vows. The way he acts in his commercial. "Earmuffs." Frank the Tank, drunk. Craig Kilborne. The dude from PCU, in an excellent and very very funny twist, as the Dean of the University. 4/5
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