College
Product Type: DVD
Product Price: $14.98
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Ur
College tells the same threadbare story as a dozen other movies about wide-eyed newcomers arriving at a college campus and finding an institution of higher learning to be a focal point of debauchery. Drake Bell (of TV's Drake & Josh) stars as Kevin, a cautious high school senior who gets dumped by his girlfriend for being boring. Determined to be a free spirit, Kevin pays a pre-enrollment weekend visit to a university with his best friends, the uptight Morris (Kevin Covais) and licentious Carter (Andrew Caldwell). The trio are soon absorbed into the black hole of an obnoxious fraternity and subjected to ritual hazing of a nauseating order. Things go from bad to worse when Kevin becomes attracted to a sorority girl (Haley Bennett) targeted by a frat leader for seduction. A kind of war breaks out between the newbies and their frat tormentors, forcing Kevin, Morris, and Carter to face up to their internal conflicts and fight back against a common enemy. College might have the semblance of a narrative, but it's really the same old grab-bag of youthful depravity, with the bar raised pretty high in a couple of sordid scenes. There's a strong influence here of Superbad (Bell, Covais, and Caldwell's characters are essentially the latter film's Evan, Seth, and McLovin in personality and style). But unlike Superbad's persuasive humanity, College is merely trying to temper outrageousness with faux sensitivity. It doesn't work, and the film feels like it goes on forever. --Tom Keogh
Reviews
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-07-05
Summary: "College DVD"
The movie is funny in parts...the title and cover pictures really does resemble the theme of the movie.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-04
Summary: "the new animal house????"
a critic said that this movie was the new animal house! hardly! animal house was about a fun fraternity and showed the evil fraternity for contrast. this movie is about some high school kids getting messed with in disgusting and humiliating ways by the evil fraternity. there is no good fraternity in the film. they are treated horribly and humiliated for the entire movie. they are forced to drink alcohol from a hairy man's *ahem* "backside", to put it lightly. they are covered in pig feces. the evil frat guys spend thousands of dollars on the kids parent's credit cards. and more.
basically it's a movie about a miserable trip some kids had at a college. in the last five or ten minutes they get a little revenge on the bad guys and the movie is over.
a couple of parts are a chuckle but for the most part you just feel really sorry for them and hate the bad guys. also you keep wondering why they don't just find other people to hang out with!!!
also a hilarious amount of female nudity. more than likely the writers realized that this movie was terrible and added that to try to make guys watch it despite it's poor quality. it does not help, the movie is still just awful.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-03
Summary: "Welcome To Hell: Alpha Sigma Style"
For all the hassle Drake has been given to Josh in their own TV show, after it completed its run, who really got the last laugh? Let's check their filmography:
Josh Peck - "Mean Creek", "The Wackness", and the "Ice Age" series
Drake Bell - "Superhero Movie", "The Nutty Professor" animated movie, and..."College"
The Bell has been cracked, and boy what a large gap it made. This is one movie that really made me angry, and had to down a couple of beers to drown the misery. It's primary goal is to be as disgusting, mean-spirited, and heartless as possible, nothing else. But at least the movie's advertisements didn't sell it as something else, because if the poster art of a guy throwing up in a toilet tells me anything, this movie has warning signs. If you can look at the film's poster and find it amusing, and the thought of a bunch of teens pressured into drinking scotch drenching below a guy's hairy bum made you laugh, then you're going to like "College"...and you're Andy Milonakis. Anyone else with even a hint of decency should just turn away and never look back.
What I'm suppose to believe is a plot has three high school buddies going on a college weekend trip to see if they can be accepted. Because Drake Bell got dumped by his girlfriend, all because he wasn't cool enough, he's using this trip as a chance to prove his worth. When they got there, they soon became pledges in a frat house of anarchy, and thus they pretend to be college freshmen to get laid. And nothing else significant happens, it's basically a series of gross-out situations leading up predictably to the kids getting back at the frat house in the most outlandish, impractical ways. Situations regarding kegs, jugs, 'questionable' toys, drugs, a clogged-up toilet, used condoms, sodomy, farm animals, vomit, bodily fluids, and Verne Troyer; it's one crap after another, there's more crap here than Mr. Hankey's family reunion.
Jeez, this movie manages to make the Farrelly Bros. movies look safe for children. I don't see the point in it taking the "Underground Comedy Movie" route, being gross for its own sake. They're never funny at all, just unnecessary shock and awe. At least in other lowbrow comedies, it has likable characters to justify its vulgar behavior, but "College" doesn't have that. The main characters are of the "Superbad" preset: Drake Bell is the Evan type, fat dude is the Seth type, and the nerd is the Fogell type, but neither of them have memorable or redeeming qualities as such. The fat dude deserves special mention because he's the most repugnant human being I laid my eyes on: always making provocative sex jokes, making blatant g-a-y comments, insults his best friend, and belittles the nerd whether he knocks his stuff or push him around. But unlike Seth who basically does the same things, this guy doesn't grow to acknowledge just how sensitive he really is or how special his relationship with his friends are, he stays that way for the whole movie. He's a disgusting, sexist, aggressive, shameless monster...and I'm suppose to believe they're friends? They have no chemistry with each other, I don't understand why the nerd is even friends with that monster; he's like a wife to an abusive spouse. In fact, I'm pretty sure the college frats in this movie act like heartless beasts just so fatty can look less like a jerk...which doesn't work.
What's worse, the movie can be offensive. The frat house had a handicapped fellow in a wheelchair, covering in bandages due to the frats' tomfoolery, and he was used as target practice, people threw cups of beer at him, and was physically tortured. And no one seems to be bothered by this, no one tries to rescue him? Where were the authorities? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? MANNERS DON'T SEEM TO EXIST IN THIS WORLD, THERE'S NO LOGIC OR DECENCY TO BE FOUND! WHAT'S THE MESSAGE IN ALL THIS? THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE BANNED FOR SUCH UNUSUAL CRUELTY!
...stay calm.
If anything, "College" does marks an achievement in film history. Director Deb Hagan made a stand against the male-dominated film industry. She successfully proved that girls can make a film just as vulgar and tasteless as those made by egotistic neanderthals of the National Lampoon variety. Congratulations, Debby, you deserve a special trophy. I can tell you where you can to shove it, but I won't say it here.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-26
Summary: "Good movie, funny stuff"
This was a lot better than I thought it would be. I got it in a lot of movies I bought and figured it was going to be like those new National Lampoon movies, which are stupid. But it was really funny and had a good story to it. I'll watch it again soon.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-06-20
Summary: "Kinda gross, but kinda funny...coulda been better tho."
I agree with the reviewer who said that the comeuppance against the frat came a bit too late, so it was a bit rushed at the end...and some parts were downright gross (the cleaning up the house, the pig crap, the hazing stuff "Bearcat" puts them through...he gives new meaning to the word "bodyshot", ewwww, the scene of a drunken Chicken Little, which was just as low and sad as it was gross)...some of this movie was downright mean...even of Chicken Little getting slapped by his overweight friend...who would keep putting up with that crap??
But some of it was funny, and the girls were hot (I liked the 3 focus girls)...even an appearance by Verne Troyer (Mini-Me) was fun...this movie raises the stakes for college party debauchery to a high (or low??) level...so much so that it makes "Revenge Of The Nerds" (it's obvious precursor) look G-rated, and the "American Pie" flicks look downright tame!!
I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't so gross or mean, but it had some fun bits and the comeuppance was satisfying. Drake Bell was cool and his girlfriend deserved to be dumped.