National Lampoon's Animal House

Pros: Belushi at his best with tons of quotable lines and just downright hilarious
Cons: Loose plot (who really cares though?)

Sometimes movies are just meant to be fun. They aren’t supposed to educate, commentate or inform. You’re just supposed to sit back and enjoy the flick. Many times, these films are considered to be of lesser quality than their deeper counterparts. ...

Pros: brilliance in all its raunchy glory
Cons: I didn't go to Faber

Looking back, it seems doubtful that the writers and creators of National Lampoon's Animal House knew what they had. This was a low budget film with few known stars. Simply getting a contract to make the film was a daunting task. Many (now ...

Pros: Humor, Fun, John Belushi and other unknowns
Cons: Gross

Animal House (1978) "Toga! Toga! Toga!" group chant This is a comedy that seems to be a big hit with one and all because the frat house boys that we like to laugh at so much just never grow old. The frat house boys of Animal House ...

Pros: hilarious and poignant, with the genius of John Belushi, Landis's direction, Harold Ramis's script
Cons: scavenged so much, it's harder to enjoy for itself

This 1978 frat-house flick is the icon of the genre. It introduced Kevin Bacon, resurrected the career of Donald Sutherland, put John Belushi on the map as a film star (and not just a wannabe from SNL). It even helped ensure that Milos Forman, in ...

Pros: Soundtrack. College life. Belushi..
Cons: Donald Sutherland’s @ss. (I really, really could live my life without seeing that.)

Who dumped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet?

Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the Alumni dinner?

Who else? The Deltas.

Contrary to the belief of Dean Wormer (John Vernon), the...

Pros: Belushi, college and fraternity hijinks, hilarious
Cons: no others like it!

There are a few movies out there that can be watched over and over without losing any of their luster. Those are the classics that you see shown on cable over and over again, but you still find yourself sitting down to watch a few minutes…only to end up...

Pros: Performances. Characters. Non-shocking humor.
Cons: Some of the "shocking" humor isn't all that.

In my review of Bringing Up Baby, I noted that film's pure, non-shock-valuing humor. Here, with Animal House, we have a movie that very much relies on shock value -- but some of it works so well, and balances so humorously with the ...

Pros: script, direction, cast, situations
Cons: second half of film is inconsistent

American Graffiti (1973) used the tagline "Where were you in '62?". If you were in high school then, apparently, you cruised the streets of your hometown hoping to pick up chicks. But if you happened to be in college at the time,...

Pros: belushi's famous cafeteria scene
Cons: none

I loved this movie! I don't quite think that all college kids are like, but it is more common for earlier college students to party like that. After about the third year of college you realize that you have to get serious about college. I was serious...

Pros: laughs never stop
Cons: not suitable for younger audiences

National Lampoon's Animal House enters the world of the college frat. Though it isn't entirely true that all college kids are drunk party sharks and flunking classes... I know a few that fit right in.

I'm not anything like the people in...

Pros: One of the greatest comedies of all time
Cons: WE NEED MORE BELUSHI!

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Pros: John Belushi was a riot!
Cons: None.

The first time I watched this movie was when it was out in the theatres. The year was 1978. Movies were starting to become more wilder and crazier, but I like some movies that are like that. As long as the movie has a script, no problem. What I...

Pros: One of the absolute funniest movies ever made
Cons: No way!

Bawdy, irreverent, totally non-PC, "Animal House" has well earned its reputation as one of the great movie comedies. I first saw this in 1981 as an impressionable 14-year-old (in fact, it was the first movie I ever saw on VHS!), and have since watched...

Pros: Funny movie
Cons: Minimal nudity

I saw this video in college just about every month or so. It also plays on network and cable TV all the time, but some of my favorite parts are taken out in the edited version, so it is best to go out and rent this sucker.

Like most of my...

Pros: Hilarious, heart-warming
Cons: None

I saw this movie in high school for the purpose of finding out what college life is all about. My college life was not like this, but who cares, this movie is non-stop laughs! Everything in this movie works, to the good guy Matheson to the over the...