Old School (2003)

Instant Favorite.

hyped garbage

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerFirst off, this comedy is hilarious. The story is easy to follow, simple, and full of funny jokes and hilarious gags. I thought this film was genuinely funny and I truly enjoyed it. The characters are all funny and are all likeable.The acting is very good. Luke Wilson is by far the best. He is a likeable, funny, and good-hearted man looking for a fresh start. Vince Vaughn is also hilarious. His one-liners are always well timed. Will Ferrell plays a weird and sometime socially awkward man who at times can be very funny. I found his character to be the weakest and at times he was really annoying. Jeremy Piven's character is not well developed and very, very annoying.The pacing is a little slow and the runtime is overlong.Pros: Hilarious story, good jokes, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn are both hilarious, and most the characters are likeableCons: Some slow pacing, an overlong runtime, Jeremy Piven and his bad performance, and Will Ferrell's character is a little annoyingOverall Rating: 7.0

Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson are not, and never have been, funny. Decent dramatic actors. But not funny. Stiffler, or whatever his name is, is not funny. Does he even have a career anymore?Smarmy Craig Kilborn has never been funny. Is he behind the counter at a Quik- E-Mart these days? King of Queen's wife is not funny. Fat. But not funny. Ellen Pompeo from Grey's Anatomy is cute. But not funny. Old School rips off far better movies: Animal House. Fight Club. Stripes. The Graduate.But just when I thought this cr#pfest was in danger of sinking to a 3- or 4-star movie, Andy Dyck shows up to ''totally redeem this movie'' to paraphrase a line from Dumb and Dumber. I would rank Andy Dyck alongside Gallagher and Carrot Top as the most obnoxiously unfunny humans on Earth.Credit where it's due: he drove this right down to 1 star. Writer/director/producer Todd Phillips must hate comedy, audiences or both.

Old School is a very funny movie with a great and different story line and a fantastic cast.Will Ferrell is great in this movie like he always is.Todd Phillips made this movie,long before The Hangover,and fans should really enjoy it,and pretty much everyone in their twenties loves the Hangover.I didn't like how they killed off Blue,I thought it was a dark turn that wasn't need,but other than that,Old School is a fun and light hearted comedy.Fans of both Will Ferrell and Todd Phillips should enjoy Old School,but not as much as some of their better known work.Three men sick of their adult life and all its challenges decide to relive their college days with students that are currently attending.

Old School is a comedy that stars stars Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell as three thirty-somethings who seek to re-live their college days by starting a fraternity, and the tribulations they encounter in doing so in order to avoid the problems of the present.The story was written by Court Crandall and directed by Todd Phillips.Old School has a premise wherein three men relive their carefree college years by killing off as many brain cells as possible in this movie. Mitch returns home from a less-than-pleasant business trip one evening to discover his wife, Heidi is involved in a threesome with two blindfolded strangers. Feeling less than welcome at home after this, Mitch rents a house near the campus of a nearby college.Two of his old college buddies,Beanie and Frank, stop by to cheer him up. They soon become regular guests at Mitch's place, despite the fact that Frank only recently wed Marissa,while Beanie and his wife, Lara, are busy with two kids. Beanie decides to throw a housewarming party for Mitch, and since Beanie sells audio equipment for a living, he's able to trick out the big bash with a massive PA system and an appearance by Snoop Dogg. Mitch soon finds he's the not-entirely-willing proprietor of the school's leading party spot, which raises the ire of Mr.Pritchard, a dean at the college who was the target of Mitch, Frank, and Beanie's abuse when they were all students.Mr.Pritchard arranges to have Mitch's neighborhood zoned into a student housing district, but Beanie and Frank respond by forming a fraternity and making Mitch's home their headquarters. Mitch, however, is not enthusiastic about the idea, especially as he's trying to impress Nicole, a beautiful divorcée who is less than enchanted with Frank and Beanie's "care-free" lifestyle. Old School is an definitely an over-the-top comedy that is not totally hilarious although it had some funny moments.The theme about escapism was somewhat not really that impressed me about the movie since the premise about the trio of buds who yearn to go back to the past in order to avoid the present only brings them to more problems.Aside from that,most of the humor involved is that's somewhere below the belt.And most of all,it became an exercise of laughs,whether funny or not,in the course of the film.Overall,Old School is a comedy that tries to help you escape from the present troubles of life but it nevertheless fails to deliver.