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 National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD)
 National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD) ... released 14 October, 1998 at Universal Studios / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen / A groundbreaking screwball caper, 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House was in its own way a rite of passage for Hollywood. Set in 1962 at Faber College, it follows the riotous carryings-on of the Delta Fraternity, into which are initiated freshmen Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst. Among the established house members are Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert and the late John Belushi as Bluto, a belching, lecherous, Jack Daniels guzzling maniac. A debauched house of pranksters (culminating in the famous Deathmobile sequence), Delta stands as a fun alternative to the more strait-laced, crew-cut, unpleasantly repressive norm personified by Omega House. As cowriter the late Doug Kenney puts it, "better to be an animal than a vegetable". Animal House is deliberately set in the pre-JFK assassination, pre-Vietnam era, something not made much of here, but which would have been implicitly understood by its American audience. The film was an enormous success, a rude, liberating catharsis for the latter-day frathousers who watched it. However, decades on, a lot of the humour seems broad, predictable, boorish, oafishly sexist and less witty than Airplane!, made two years later in the same anarchic spirit. Indeed, although it launched the Hollywood careers of several of its players and makers, including Kevin Bacon, director John Landis, Harold Ramis and Tom Hulce, who went on to do fine things, it might well have been inadvertently responsible for the infantilisation of much subsequent Hollywood comedy. Still, there's an undeniable energy that gusts throughout the film and Belushi, whether eating garbage or trying to reinvoke the spirit of America "After the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour" is a joy. On the DVD: Animal House comes to disc in a good transfer, presented in 1.85:1. The main extra is a featurette in which director John Landis, writer Chris Miller and some of the actors talk about the making of the movie. Interestingly, 23 years on, most of those interviewed look better than they did back in 1978, especially Stephen "Flounder" Furst. --David StubbsNewest Review: ... Delta house go from one idiotic and crazy prank to another. However the college Dean, Vernon Wormer, enlists the assistance ... more ... of Omega president Greg Marmalard, to help rid the college of the embarrassing Delta house from his campus.
I was eager to watch this popular film and was glad I gave it a chance. It is a hilarious film with some great performances from the cast below.
Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
John Belushi - John Blutarsky
James Daughton - Greg Marmalard
Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
Stephen Furst - Kent Dorfman
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National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD): My sort of school (223 words)
by - written on 07/02/08 (Useful, 60 readings)
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This is a very funny film and starred the late great John Belushi. It is set in a 1950's American University and focuses on the antice os a fraternity house which has a really bad reputation for holding wid booze filled parties, poor academic grades and for taking advantage of young female students. Dean Wormer who runs the University is determined to get the fraternity kicked off campus and he uses the the members of an ultra snobish fraternity to try and set up the lads to get them kicked out. This is a very funny film whch essentially plays out as series of small setches that are linked togeher into a loosely based story. There is a ... Read the complete review
That was Eric Stratton and he was damn glad to meet you... (467 words)
by - written on 30/06/01 (Very useful, 116 readings)
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Americans often seem to worry about not having a culture. Sure they do, and this film proves it. Imagine the worst collection of chauvanistic, brain-dead morons attending the same college as neo-nazi, upper-class-up-their-backsides, superhuman specimens and you have the film that is Animal House. The battle of the frat houses is the setting of this once-anarchic film, pitching the immortal good guys versus the bad guys scenarios, except that the bad guys are the good guys, and the good guys are the bad guys in this anti-version of American pie-ness. Set further back in the sixties, this film carried on the tradition of slightly off the wall ... Read the complete review
National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD): Wild parties at Animal House (378 words)
by - written on 01/11/09 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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Animal House is an iconic comedy film directed by the talented, John Landis. The film is a riotous film about the antics of two rival fraternity houses at a college in the sixties. When Larry and Kent are looking for a fraternity to join, at Faber College, they have a choice of either Omega Theta Pi House or Delta Tau Chi House. They are shunned by Omega house, which is full of self-righteous, rich young men, so join Delta house, after being accepted by Delta president, Eric Stratton. They are soon caught up in the rivalry between the two fraternities, as the rambunctious Delta house go from one idiotic and crazy prank to another. However the college Dean, ... Read the complete review
Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga! (330 words)
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National Lampoon’s Animal House is a tale of like at an American college in the early 1960’s. Brought to the screen by people such as John Landis and Harold Ramis, this couldn’t be a bad movie, could it? **Plot** Kroger and Dorfman (Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst) have just entered college, and to their initial dismay, can only get into the worst fraternity on campus, the Delta frat. Dean Wormer (a fantastic John Vernon) enlists the help of the ultra posh, and ultra hated fraternity Omega to make sure that the Delta’s are tricked into getting themselves kicked off campus. What happens? Do they succeed? The movie basically ... Read the complete review
National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD): Screwball Campus Comedy (448 words)
by - written on 19/01/04 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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Universal Pictures Video will release groundbreaking screwball campus comedy NATIONAL LAMPOON?S ANIMAL HOUSE as a Collector?s Edition DVD on 26th January 2004 ... and I've got a preview copy ;-) The inspiration for PORKY?S, FERRIS BUELLER?S DAY OFF, AMERICAN PIE, WAYNE?S WORLD, WEIRD SCIENCE, VAN WILDER and every other college movie since, this DVD which comes packed with extras has cross generation appeal! Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, et al. Director: John Landis John Landis (THE BLUES BROTHERS/AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON/TRADING PLACES) and written by Harold Ramis (CADDYSHACK/GROUNDHOG DAY/ANAYLYZE THIS), NATIONAL ... Read the complete review
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