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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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  • Three high school friends (Drake Bell, Kevin Covais and Andrew Caldwell) visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen anticipating the best weekend of their lives. Once there, the rowdiest fraternity on campus, headed by a womanizing jock (Nick Zano), decides to recruit the boys as "pledges," subjecting them to endless humiliations in return for granting them access to the no-holds-barred college party scene.
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    Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.

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    09/02/08
    Laura Kern
    Laura Kern
    New York Times

    The film contains plenty of cliche sight gags, gross-out jokes, sex, beer and college pranks that rarely cause a laugh or chuckle.

    Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
    09/02/08
    Jason MacNeil
    Jason MacNeil
    Jam! Movies

    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.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    09/02/08
    Kamal Al-Solaylee
    Kamal Al-Solaylee
    Globe and Mail

    Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    09/02/08
    Owen Gleiberman
    Owen Gleiberman
    Entertainment Weekly
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    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.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    09/02/08
    Wesley Morris
    Wesley Morris
    Boston Globe
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    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.

    Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
    09/02/08
    Austin Kennedy
    Austin Kennedy
    Sin Magazine

    Crass, ugly and mean-spirited, 'College' is so lowbrow that it makes 'Porky's' look like 'Casablanca.'

    Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
    08/31/08
    Linda Cook
    Linda Cook
    Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

    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.

    Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
    08/30/08
    Eric D. Snider
    Eric D. Snider
    EricDSnider.com

    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.

    Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment 2 Comments
    08/30/08
    Frank Swietek
    Frank Swietek
    One Guy's Opinion

    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.

    Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Dustin Putman
    Dustin Putman
    DustinPutman.com

    As a boring exercise in youthful debauchery, this "College" is no place you'd ever want to go.

    Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Cole Smithey
    Cole Smithey
    ColeSmithey.com

    The nadir of homophobic frat-boy humor.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment 3 Comments
    08/29/08
    Nick Schager
    Nick Schager
    Slant Magazine

    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.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Ken Fox
    Ken Fox
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    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.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Frank Scheck
    Frank Scheck
    Hollywood Reporter

    Hardly superbad, but sorta OK.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment 9 Comments
    08/29/08
    Rob Nelson
    Rob Nelson
    Variety
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    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.

    Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Alonso Duralde
    Alonso Duralde
    MSNBC

    It's difficult to laugh when you're choking back vomit.

    Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment 3 Comments
    08/29/08
    Geoff Berkshire
    Geoff Berkshire
    Metromix.com

    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.

    Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Brian Orndorf
    Brian Orndorf
    BrianOrndorf.com

    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.

    Full Review Source: WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) | comment Comment
    08/29/08
    Kevin McCarthy
    Kevin McCarthy
    WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
     
     
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