National Lampoon's Animal House (DVD)

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

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 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

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

Set in a 1960's American University this comedy features the late great John Belushi. It is based around the fraternity system with Belushi and his colleagues members of the worst male fraternity on the campus. Life for them is a series of booze fuelled parties and attempts to avoid being kicked out of the university by Dean Wermer. The quality of the humour is pretty basic to say the least and the storyline is weak. It has the feel that it is actually a series of sketches thrown together into a loose story of sorts. There is a fair amount of slapstick humour with Belushi providing most of the more extreme antics. It is not for the ...  Read the complete review