PCU (1994)

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Upon first hearing of this movie my initial thoughts were "not another sex-romp comedy in the vein of Animal House." Well, I guess once again I was wrong. My friend said that this movie is very close to what campus life is like in the 1990's. Having sat through numerous 1980's sex romp comedies, such as Revenge of the Nerds and Fraternity Vacation, I was not to keen on seeing it again. Upon seeing this movie I realised that the sex romp comedy has gone out of fashion now and college comedies are not going to be as stereotypical as they previously were.My friend's comment about PCU Pit Party being an accurate rendition of 90's campus life is pretty correct. One of the major differences between Australian Universities and American Universities is that in Australia our students do not live on campus (or they at least don't in Adelaide University, and I believe that is the same across Australia). This is probably because Australia is a very urbanised nation and those who go to university generally live in the city surrounding it, though this is not always the case. My friend who recommended this movie to me lived for a year in a college and his parents lived in the city as well.A pre-fresh comes to Port Chester University (PCU) just before the year ends so that he may see what campus life is like. He has been assigned to the pit, a very run down boarding house were all of the politically incorrect live. While he is there he manages to anger the protesters, the militant Negroes, and all of the students who are frantically typing out their thesis's to meet the Monday deadline, but this isn't the plot of the movie. The Pit, being where all of the people who snub political correctness live, are offending a lot of people and the president of the University wants them out so that some preps might move in. Thus they must first raise $7000 to pay their damage bill and then get rid of the president so that they might remain where they live.The main thrust of this movie is an attack at political correctness. The title, PCU, seems to even bring out this theme. This movie is said to be a 90's version of Animal House, and the big thing in the 90's is political correctness. I guess the thrust of this movie is that political correctness can be very bad when taken to the extreme. Here we are not looking at insulting Negroes or removing gay rights, but rather making a mockery of how far some of the rabid feminists take it. The movie seems to use the word person in a way where it goes from being politically correct to being stupid.There are two main antagonists in this movie, the preppies (bascially rich kids), and the womanists. There are also the protesters who basically protest about anything and really do not have any true cause, but they are more comical than anything else. In fact I guess the womanists are comical in a way, but they are rabidly anti-male, and this is taken to the extreme as there is no real reason behind their cause. It is interesting when one of them discovers that males are not all that bad because if you actually be friendly to them then they will give things to you. The other thing is their protest at the "penis party", claiming that it is a symbol of male oppression. The advertisement that they did not like was "everybody gets laid at the Pit". The ironic thing is that not only is the band called "Everybody gets Laid", but the name was thought up by a woman.The final thing we see is the stupidity of all of this protesting. The speech at the end, which is typical of such movies, has the main character plead to the students to put their differences behind them and to protest against the establishment. In the end this movie is an attack against the establishment and it points towards the establishment for creating the whole idea of political correctness to create dissension among the masses. While the masses are fighting over their own individual rights, the establishment - as portrayed by the preppies and the president, are able to work their wicked schemes. I guess in the end the theme of this movie is that political correctness has its place, but one can go overboard in applying it.

The movie features an incredible cast with Jeremy Piven anchoring the lead role, and featuring David Spade in a usual tie-wearing, brown nosing politician egocentric.The movie from beginning to the end was fun and funny, yet doing their part to point out the vast political correctness and sensitivity society is in these days. The only thing was it felt like a ripoff of Animal House (only a PG13 version). The fraternity on campus that causes problems for the university...the dean trying to run them out of the school...the alcohol...the parties and the dean's personal student monkey.But for those that could care less about originality...this movie is a must-see.

A lot of my favorite, lesser known, actors are in this production. Jeremy Piven, Jon Favreau, Jake Busey, Alex Désert ( I loved this guy in the sitcom "Becker") and David Spade ( ditto for "Just Shoot Me") Boy, this was a huge disappointment. But still, I'm left behind with the feeling that this movie could have been something. Good college and high school movies are rare. You can't really refer to the Porky's series to be classics and all other lesser known clones to it suck as well. Actually, Fast Times At Ridgemont High is the only film worth mentioning in this field. American Pie started a whole new generation of "collage-films" because they only handled about sex and fart jokes. I'm not at all saying that makes a movie better, but maybe a bit more memorable. The main message in P.C.U ( telling young people they should enjoy their youth more instead of protesting for everything ) was worth a try but not good enough to build a whole movie on. There are a few funny moments present in this film, but they are not worth sitting the whole movie through. It might be good for killing time if you have absolutely nothing better to do. In other words, rainy sunday afternoon stuff...NEXT !!

A MOVIE TO WATCH IF YOU WANT TO LAUGHGutter and Droz will make you laugh and it doesn't need raunchy scenes to do it. It is just in your face funny. There are a very good number of positive postings about this movie so I know the DVD release is because this is a cult classic, and it will become a much bigger one if more people actually knew about the movie. I only believe that there has been one college movie released before or after PCU that compares to it and that is Old School.As far as Animal House goes don't get me wrong, awesome movie. But it is overrated because it was the trend setter in this kind of movie which in my opinion doesn't make a movie great.I have little faith in the DVD having great behind the scenes or deleted scenes but if it has one cool thing on it i think it is worth it.F- this 5.8 rank. I find it funny that according to the poll's description men over 45 give the movie an average of a 3.8 vote which is by far the worst. WTF, I don't watch movies in the 70's that i don't understand and give them a rank of 1/10. So, F- these people that bash what they don't and can't understand. So if you have seen it and love it vote and help up the rank so more people have more of an incentive to watch this great movie.-ding ding ding, Gutter tell her what she's won :)