Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 166
Fresh: 100 | Rotten: 66
While not consistently funny, the movie does have its moments.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 15
While not consistently funny, the movie does have its moments.
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Three men relive their carefree college years by killing off as many brain cells as possible in this over-the-top comedy. Mitch (Luke Wilson) returns home from a less-than-pleasant business trip one evening to discover his wife, Heidi (Juliette Lewis), involved in a ménage à trois with two blindfolded strangers. Feeling less than welcome at home after this, Mitch rents a house near the campus of a nearby college; two of Mitch's old college buddies, Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and Frank (Will Ferrell),
Feb 21, 2003 Wide
Jun 10, 2003
$74.6M
DreamWorks SKG
All Critics (169) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (103) | Rotten (70) | DVD (28)
Only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen -- then you won't stop laughing.
A flatland of lowest-common- denominated retro-collegiate wackiness.
This is a raucous frat-school comedy that's dopey, degrading and disgusting -- and consistently hilarious.
An extremely funny and, of course, socially unredeemable comedy.
This movie's enough to give you a big fat Greek dreading.
This year's kinder, gentler Animal House.
Very politically incorrect; funny for many adults.
Mitch (Luke Wilson) has just been cheated on and moved into a nice new bachelor pad right near the local college. But when threatened with eviction by the dean of the college, Mitch's buddies Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and Frank (Will Ferrell) suggest that the
...some clever repartee and a couple of cute gags. It's not much to hang a picture on, but it suffices for a pleasant-enough experience. (Blu-ray Edition)
When an Oster Breadmaker gets some of the film's biggest laughs, you know the thing's in trouble.
The lead males give impressively modulated performances that keep the laughs flowing as all hell breaks loose.
Not exactly a time-travel fantasy, but definitely inhabited by spaced-out, anachronistic characters, Old School is about a trio of 30-something buds who yearn to go back to the past in order to avoid the present.
Director Phillips confesses to frat membership in his youth, and even made a documentary on the subject. So why is this not funnier or more outrageous?
Will Ferrell is a fearless comedian, and he commits completely to his insanity in the film, and that makes it work.
Une bonne location pour un party entre amis et pour ceux qui ne sont pas fatigués de la recette des films d'ados.
The recess bell should have rung immediately into the first period of this frothy yet flat and insufferable scholastic satire.
If you like humor that's somewhere below the belt, then Old School is for you.
Enroll at your own risk.
Will Ferrell ... makes about ten minutes of this movie side-splittingly hilarious. That's like finding a few pieces of crunchy cereal in a bowl of sour milk.
Old School is a movie of moments and it's the good ones that raise this a little above your average comedy flick. The ensemble cast is decent apart from Luke Wilson who isn't even remotely funny and the characters are just cardboard and forgettable. Will Ferrel is hilarious and Vince Vaugn is also pretty funny too.
March 10, 2012
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