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Summary: Not perfect, but Piven is great
Review: I saw this in theaters, and although I felt at the time that it didn't measure up to similar films (Animal House), it grew on me. It does an excellent job of poking fun at the whole PC craze that was sweeping college campuses in the early to mid 90's...it was so bad, anything you said could be misconstrued, and any attempt to have fun was frowned upon. This movie made me a huge fan of Jeremy Piven (although, after this movie, I can't believe he's the DEAN in _Old School_!) My favorite moment was when the group wonders what happened to Gutter (Jon Favreau)...one character says he's probably in a parking lot picking his nose somewhere. Cut to Gutter in a long shot, under a parking lot street lamp. He looks down at his finger, then makes a flicking motion... his nose-picking is only implied, never seen.Incidentally, the director is an actor, Hart Bochner. You may know him better as Ellis, the slimy, coke-using co-worker of John McClane's wife who tells the terrorists/robbers John's real name.
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Summary: Poor man's Animal House...
Review: This movie is a classic. While not a triumph of american filmmaking, screenwriting, or directing, it certainly rings true with many modern-day college students. It's low-budget and the ending is a little cheesy, but all in all, this movie is a true cult classic. Jeremy Piven leads a cast of semi-normal college students in a sea of caricatures in this movie. He does all the stuff we wish we could do against all the people we wish we could do it to--the overly sensitive, "cravenly PC" crowd. Normally, his cookie-cutter adversaries would make for boring subject matter, but after spending my time at college, I've seen that there really are people out there that are this bizarre. Piven really carries this movie, and Jon Favreau is also pretty good as Gutter. The potheads are hilarious, as are the Womynists. David Spade's character and his organization are also pretty good. The one thing that you'll begin to notice if you've been on a college campus lately, is that you'll see a character in this movie, and realize that you know someone like that or have seen something similar. Who wouldn't want George Clinton to play their party?
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Summary: Good addition to your movie library
Review: This movie pokes fun at all of the politically correct thinkers. Its good mindless fun, but those who expect seriousness should avoid this one!
The movie centers around a basic idea: Too many people are uptight, and just don't know how to have a good time. This movie is good for laughs and shouldn't offend anyone (unless they want to be offended)
I had the tape version, and nabbed the DVD as soon as it came out.
Heartily recommend it.
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Summary: Pack your bags and visit PCU
Review: This movie is so funny I seriously watch it about once a week. The members of 'the pit' are the anti-fraternity on campus, who don't care about be being politically correct (like everyone else on campus is obsessed with). When they are in danger of being kicked out of their house, they decide to have a fundraiser in the form of a party. It succeeds in bringing all the students together (with some help from George Clinton), but the president of the university still shuts them down. They decide to get rid of her by wrecking the school's bicentennial celebration. There are a few other storylines going on at the same time - Droz and his old girlfriend hooking up again; the pre-frosh making enemies with everyone on campus and the stoners. There are lots of great pranks and physical comedy. Jeremy Piven is great as the college-student-for-life James 'Droz' Andrews and David Spade as the elitist leader of underground frat Balls and Shaft provides some of the funniest moments.
Where's the DVD?!
Rating:
Summary: A cult classic
Review: I caught this movie on video not long after it took a dive in theatres in 1994 and had no expectations for it. I was surprised how much I loved it and after half-a-dozen viewings it still holds up as one of the top "kollege skool daze" films of all-time. A sort of 1990s take on "Animal House" but adjusted to reflect the smothering, neutering, pandering effect that political correctness has had on society, and college society in particular, "PCU" is the story of a hapless perspective freshman ("prefresh") who visits the fictional Port Charles University, once a happening party school that has been spayed by its obsessively PC dean. The prefresh finds himself in the middle of a war being waged between the Order of Balls & Shaft (a button-down clan of elitist snobs led by super-smarmy David Spade) and a group of renegade misfits led by Droz (Jeremy Piven at his very best) over ownership of "the Pit" -- the decaying fraternity house occupied by Droz's band but which once housed Spade's Hitler Youth troop. The real battle on campus, however, is between those who just want to party and have a good time and various sterotypical groups (militant blacks, feminazis, potheads, vegans, gays, etc) who have made any behavior that doesn't involve protesting basically impossible. The president of the university, Garcia-Thomas (note the hyphen), so hates the "offensive" Pit-persons that she sides with Spade's group to drive them off campus even though Spade is the antithesis of all of her beliefs. What follows is general chaos, with a hilarious performance by John Favereau (fat and wearing dreadlocks) as Gutter, a moron who fails every task given to him yet somehow gets George Clinton and his P-Funk All Stars to jam at a "Save the Pit" fundraiser. "PCU" is hardly a perfect movie, but having had an extremely crazy college career I could definetly relate to what happens in the film, and I most definetly give a "big up" (as they say in Jamaica) to the brutally anti-PC message. Simply put, I laughed my butt off at this film. It's worth at least a rental and I can't wait for the DVD so I can watch the Pit crew bombard the vegans with meat again and again.
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Summary: "EVERYONE GETS LAID" - Great name for a rock band!
Review: "PCU" is a gem among ensemble college-caper films. And you didn't have to go to college in the '90s to appreciate the humor. The Bonus material is great, especially the commentary from the film's "really groovy director," Hart Bochner.
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Summary: can you blow me where the pampers is???
Review: i never get sick of that scene!! this is a hilarious film you can watch over and over and over, by yourself or in huge groups, and quote later with your friends. david spade is classic in this, and i think anyone who went to college in the 90s will relate.
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Summary: It's Funny Because It's True
Review: There was time, back when PCU was first released, that I thought replacing a major academic area with a "Bisexual Asian Studies" department (one among many witty 'PC-isms' presented in the movie) was a very funny, if slightly over-the-top joke at the expense of the liberal juggernaught that is political correctness. Then, during my own occasionally bizarre collegiate experience, I found one such *real* department at a (to remain unnamed) school in California. I @#$% you not, folks. PCU is a very, very funny movie, and in the years since its release it is proving to have been movie that was, astonishingly, well ahead of its time. If you went to college in or after the late '90s, you will recognize every caricature the movie presents, and even if you didn't you can see them all, increasingly, at large in society today. Don't get carried away, it's not an especially deep or insightful comedy, but it presents the obvious in a way impossible to not find hilarious and it may even surprise you occasionally when you look around and see how little they really had to exaggerate to make it happen. Plus, it has George Clinton in it...how much more does a movie really need before you can call it a latter-day classic?
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Summary: "shower scene"
Review: pure fun from beginning to end. this ones a comic gem. hilarious moments include the hippie olympics, the meat tossing, Jon Favreau's testimony to the senate with his stoner friends. Piven and the 2 hippies higjack the peppy rich kids bar. Piven slaps the rich kids, plays Starland Local Band music and locks with a carsterringwheel lock and of course Piven's speech at the end. George Clinton brings some funk to the movie. The womanists sing "This Penis party's gotta go" with a little bit of "Kumbyya" blended in. favorite lines
Matt Ross(stoner band member)- "play Metallica and they will come"(then the members get electrocuted as the equipment is plugged in) Dude watching tv- "shower scene"
Dude watching tv- "A Bridge To Far, Gene Hackman and Michael Caine in the same movie, I have my thesis(stands up) I can stop watching TV!!!"
Rating:
Summary: Funny
Review: This movie is among the best movies in the realm of college life I have ever seen, many people think of Animal House and similar movies, but for my money PCU tops them all. If you hate Political Correctness this is your movie!
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