Review of Old School

Old School (2003)
1/10
Old School- Same Nonsense *
3 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I would expect this film being created by lower functioning junior high school students.

The premise of three guys opening up a fraternity home near the school where they graduated from is absolutely ridiculous to begin with.

The only good thing here is Jeremy Piven, who has personal reasons for wanting to break up this nonsense. As the dean of the school, he tries but the writing is so bad and inane that his reasoning soon falls off the charts.

The film also follows the love lives of these 3 jerks-Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and Luke Wilson. Each story is more absurd than the other. Well, Wilson falls for the boss's daughter. That could have been played up more as far as the reaction of the boss finding out. The boss doesn't even find out that his daughter has been sleeping with the Wilson character.

The picture defies logic. Having an 89 year old frat member dropping dead in the middle of exercise is just too stupid to discuss. At his funeral, Vaughn's comments that all old people die, said in front of an elderly woman is heartless and in poor taste.

How much longer must we be subjected to Hollywood's goal of trying to satisfy the youth by coming up with films that lack sanity?
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