Movies on DVD: Old School

One of my favorite lowbrow comedies of the recent years, Old School is the height of hilarity, even if you haven’t even gone to college. The premise is thus, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell play the types of characters that they often do: a fast-talking, selfish man and a hilarious yet thick manchild respectively. Oh yeah, Luke Wilson is in this movie too, mostly just to react to the other two and move along that pesky plot thing. The basic plot turns out to be along these lines: faced with the revelation that his girlfriend is a bit more sexually risky than he, Mitch (Wilson) moves into a new pad on the outskirts of Harrison University. After a kickoff party thrown by Bernard (Vaughn) is a hit, university Dean and old nemesis of our heroes, Gordon Pritchard (Jeremy Piven) swings by to inform the boys that Mitch’s new house is now zoned for campus use only, and so begins Bernard’s brilliant plan to start a fraternity for anybody and everybody. Personally, I see this as one of the movies that sparked the sparked the Starsky & Hutch, Dodgeball, Anchorman, etc. trend of comedies (they all have a lot of actors and crew members in common), and I see this one as by far one of the funniest. It is bursting with both auditory and visual gags of a wide range; some may gross you out, some may seem distasteful, but most will make you laugh. Old School is worth watching to see top-notch comedy game from both Ferrell and Vaughn before they started cranking out yearly to bi-yearly mediocre comedies.

My IMDB Rating: 6 Stars