The tagline of the movie, `All the fun of college, none of the education,' is surprisingly more descriptive than the usual movie tagline. The movie does manage to eek by at a higher level than it's idiotic colleagues, the American Pies and Road Trip and The New Guy, Not Another Teen Movie, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. These are kinds of movies that we are flogged with more in the last five years or so than we ever have in the history of the movies, and they seem to be going downhill, as though filmmakers are conducting morbid experiments on the moral and intellectual depths of their viewing audience. While Old School certainly contains all of the ingredients of one of these experimental films, it manages to escape being yet another vicious insult to the general intelligence of moviegoers as a whole, although just barely.
Vince Vaughn single-handedly saves this movie from a fate that it was almost sure to suffer. This is a tremendously talented actor who is distantly above doing movies like this (although other actors in the movie, like Farrell (and probably no one else) are hugely talented as well but are famous for this type of comedy), but who takes on the role with a smile and with the right frame of mind and who, mostly with a straight face, delivers all of the funniest lines in the movie.
If you go to the home page for Old School on the IMDb, there is a message at the bottom where someone asks people what their favorite line from Old School is, and if you click on that there is a huge page of people's quotes, which just shows how packed this movie is with hilarious scenes and bits of dialogue. I'll be the first to admit that there is plenty of cheesy crap in the movie (since I tend to look for stuff like that when I watch a movie like this), but there is also a huge amount of great comedy that more than makes up for it. There are tons and tons of scenes and pieces of dialogue that are unexpected and hilarious but not unexpected in that they were just thrown in for a laugh or for shock value.
And besides that, Master of Puppets was on the soundtrack! How can you POSSIBLY go wrong?? When was the last time you saw a movie that was brave enough to use a Metallica song on the soundtrack? BRAVO!!
Vince Vaughn single-handedly saves this movie from a fate that it was almost sure to suffer. This is a tremendously talented actor who is distantly above doing movies like this (although other actors in the movie, like Farrell (and probably no one else) are hugely talented as well but are famous for this type of comedy), but who takes on the role with a smile and with the right frame of mind and who, mostly with a straight face, delivers all of the funniest lines in the movie.
If you go to the home page for Old School on the IMDb, there is a message at the bottom where someone asks people what their favorite line from Old School is, and if you click on that there is a huge page of people's quotes, which just shows how packed this movie is with hilarious scenes and bits of dialogue. I'll be the first to admit that there is plenty of cheesy crap in the movie (since I tend to look for stuff like that when I watch a movie like this), but there is also a huge amount of great comedy that more than makes up for it. There are tons and tons of scenes and pieces of dialogue that are unexpected and hilarious but not unexpected in that they were just thrown in for a laugh or for shock value.
And besides that, Master of Puppets was on the soundtrack! How can you POSSIBLY go wrong?? When was the last time you saw a movie that was brave enough to use a Metallica song on the soundtrack? BRAVO!!