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College (2008)

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Average Rating: 2.5/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 39

A pale imitation of the raunchy college frat of old, College aims low and misses.

8

Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 11

A pale imitation of the raunchy college frat of old, College aims low and misses.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
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Movie Info

Deb Hagan directs this comedy set in the world of higher education and starring Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, and Andrew Caldwell as three high-school friends who take a weekend trip to nearby Fieldmont University as prospective college freshman in order to find out just how wild things can truly get on campus. Initially taken in as pledges at the most notorious fraternity on campus, Kevin, Morris, and Carter are subjected to humiliating series of pranks cooked up by womanizing frat president Teague

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Comedy

Dan Callahan, Adam Ellison

Jan 27, 2009

$4.6M

MGM

Cast

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (41) | DVD (5)

I thought it was dreadful from start to finish.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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Not only would I not see this movie, I wouldn't see any movie playing in the same multiplex.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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A raunchy comedy that plays like a Superbad without the smarts, the heart, the originality or the laughs.

September 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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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.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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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.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Newsday
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We've done the whole classless college comedy thing before, many times.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune | Comment
Times-Picayune

A laugh-free, thoroughly unpleasant comedy...

July 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

So full of nastiness and cruelty that it's hard to believe anyone would find joy in it.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

a male fantasy of what sorority life is really like with a depth of story that would be more at home in a porn film than a major motion picture

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

The worst gags in "Old School" and "Revenge of the Nerds" are still superior to anything you'll see in College

January 25, 2009 Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | Comment
What Would Toto Watch?

Given the movie's disastrous box office non-performance, it should come as no surprise that the extras on this disc are limited.

January 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

If you hear someone deriding Superbad for being unoriginal or derivative, sit them in front of College. If they can't tell the difference, they're a lost cause.

January 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

In actuality, College blows like a loose sorority.

January 22, 2009 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Excruciatingly unfunny.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

Personally, I wouldn't waste a $5 drink on this one, but I do understand that teen's irritation.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

...makes The House Bunny look like The Importance of Being Earnest.

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

A movie that glorifies binge drinking flunks as a movie

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | Comment

Sadistic with no laughs to be had.

September 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Illinois Times | Comment
Illinois Times

With sloppy direction, a half-baked script and no reason to care, College is far from being the Animal House of this generation.

September 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine
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Audience Reviews for College

Came across this last night on TMC [The Movie Channel]. I forogt this movie even existed, but, I was bored so I decided to watch it. ISure, the movie has a couple laughs but this is the kind of movie you can compare to "Superbad". Welll....I really hated "Superbad" and I feel as if "College" has a little more to offer.

August 12, 2010
Screeny
Corey Wood

Super Reviewer

Just saw this a couple of days ago at my cousin's house. This is apparently one of his favorite comedies, which now makes me question weather or not we are actually related! This is the lamest, dumbest, most obnoxiously poor excuse for a comedy I've seen since DATE MOVIE. What an insulting pile of dreck. I expected it

May 7, 2009
YLOWBSTARDreturns

Super Reviewer

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