Oh joy, another Animal House knockoff, and one that makes The House Bunny look like The Importance of Being Earnest.
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College (2008)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 2 Rotten:22 Average Rating: 2.5/10
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A pale imitation of the raunchy college frat comedies of old, College aims low and misses.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: Drake Bell of Nickelodeon's DRAKE AND JOSH grows up with this raunchy comedy about a trio of high school seniors on a college visit. When they arrive on campus, the three teens are recruited by a party-loving frat with hilarious results. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Hayley Bennett, Ryan Pinkston
Director: Deb Hagan
Screenwriter: Dan Callahan, Adam Ellison
Producer: Julie Dangel, Malcolm Petal, Kimberly C. Anderson, Adam Rosenfelt, Marc Schaberg
Screenwriter: Dan Callahan, Adam Ellison
Producer: Julie Dangel, Malcolm Petal, Kimberly C. Anderson, Adam Rosenfelt, Marc Schaberg
Reviews
With sloppy direction, a half-baked script and no reason to care, College is far from being the Animal House of this generation.
09/03/08
Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is covering something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity.
09/02/08
Insulting audiences with College and Disaster Movie on the same weekend threatens to split the lucrative, undiscriminating dumb-ass demographic.
09/02/08
College tries to be a throwback to the teens-gone-wild films of the '80s, but now that teens can find far racier and far funnier fare than this on the Internet, these brainless movies have become obsolete.
09/02/08
Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.
09/02/08
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The film contains plenty of cliche sight gags, gross-out jokes, sex, beer and college pranks that rarely cause a laugh or chuckle.
09/02/08
In the battle for the hearts, minds and fat wallets of North American teens, College fights dirtier and sinks lower than most gross-out screen comedies.
09/02/08
Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.
09/02/08
Things never get better than the movie's poster, which features a kid with his head in a toilet. Incidentally, that image doubles, concisely, as apt film criticism.
09/02/08
You can do alot worse, but two of the lead actors ruin it for the rest of the class. COLLEGE gets an A for effort, but doesn't quite pass.
09/02/08
Crass, ugly and mean-spirited, 'College' is so lowbrow that it makes 'Porky's' look like 'Casablanca.'
08/31/08
Anybody in the market for a rip-off of Superbad? All it's missing are the likable characters and the good performances! Oh, and the comedy.
08/30/08
The sort of crass, witless, Porky's-style exercise that makes even the worst product of the Judd Apatow factory look like a comic masterpiece.
08/30/08
Zippy, lightweight, raucously silly, and embracing of its well-earned R rating, College doesn't pretend to be deep or anything more than it is: a you-are-there portrayal of three high schoolers let loose on a hard-partying university campus.
08/29/08
As a boring exercise in youthful debauchery, this "College" is no place you'd ever want to go.
08/29/08
No one expects a frat-house comedy to be clean, but there's an obnoxious crudity to this terrible misfire whole thing that leaves you feeling splattered and dirty by the time the inevitable over-the-credits blooper reel rolls.
08/29/08
This low-rent frat house comedy is at once far more vulgar and decidedly less anarchic than its obvious inspiration and should flunk out of theaters before this year's crop of freshman students even finish unpacking their bags.
08/29/08
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