Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.
College (2008)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:2
Rotten:37
Average Rating:2.5/10
Consensus: A pale imitation of the raunchy college frat of old, College aims low and misses.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug and alcohol abuse.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Aug 29, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $4,600,628
Synopsis: First-time director Deb Hagan teams up with first-time screenwriters Dan Callahan and Adam Ellison in the gross-out comedy COLLEGE. Kevin (Drake Bell), Carter (Andrew Caldwell), and Morris (Kevin... First-time director Deb Hagan teams up with first-time screenwriters Dan Callahan and Adam Ellison in the gross-out comedy COLLEGE. Kevin (Drake Bell), Carter (Andrew Caldwell), and Morris (Kevin Covais) are three nerdy high school seniors who need some adventure in their life. After Gina (Alona Tal) breaks up with Kevin, the trio decides to have a wild weekend at Fieldmont University, where Kevin and Morris are planning on going to college in the fall--Morris on an academic scholarship. When their preassigned dorm room is not ready for them for reasons best left unsaid, they turn instead to one of the fraternities, where a cousin of Carter's was a member, hoping to be treated as legacies. But the frat, which is on probation and cannot have a new pledge class, takes advantage of the situation by turning Kevin, Carter, and Morris into pre-frosh pledges for the weekend, torturing them in numerous and disgusting ways, some involving pigs, nitrous oxide, bathrooms, and lots of alcohol. The three nerds try to find solace--and possible sex--with Heather (Camille Mana), Kendall (Haley Bennett), and Amy (Nathalie Walker), but the frat brothers have other plans. COLLEGE follows in the footsteps of such higher-learning comedies as HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, REVENGE OF THE NERDS, and AMERICAN PIE, where no joke is too lewd, crude, or rude. And then there's Bearcat (Gary Owen), who just about steals the show as the craziest of all the fraternity brothers. The soundtrack features songs by Ben Kweller, Oklahomos, the Transcenders, and Supagroup, who also appear in the movie, playing a wild fraternity party. [More]
Starring: Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett
Starring: Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett, Ryan Pinkston, Nick Zano, Zach Cregger, Gary Owen, Alona Tal
Director: Deb Hagan
Director: Deb Hagan
Screenwriter: Dan Callahan, Adam Ellison
Producer: Julie Dangel, Malcolm Petal, Kimberly C. Anderson, Adam Rosenfelt, Marc Schaberg
Studio: Lions Gate Films
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Jun 16, 2009
Reviews for College
The film contains plenty of cliche sight gags, gross-out jokes, sex, beer and college pranks that rarely cause a laugh or chuckle.
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.
Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.
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.
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.
Crass, ugly and mean-spirited, 'College' is so lowbrow that it makes 'Porky's' look like 'Casablanca.'
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.
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.
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.
As a boring exercise in youthful debauchery, this "College" is no place you'd ever want to go.
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.
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.
Like a fraternity hazing, the film is sexist, gross, and simultaneously homophobic and homoerotic; like a freshman dying of alcohol poisoning, it's not funny in the slightest.
Scenes with the boys doing body shots off a furry frat brother in extreme close-up, cleaning overflowing toilets in extreme close-up, and getting nailed with urine-filled balloons might seem like an awesome night at the movies. For me, it was agony.
College is exactly like every other film you have seen in the genre. You definitely shouldn't waste your money to see it theatres but it is worth a cable viewing.
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