PCU

Rating:
Summary: This, My Friends, Is A Very Good Movie
Review: Goodness me, just got the movie today, enjoyed it thouroughly. It's sort of unknown though, to a lot of people. I found out aboutit because it was on daytime HBO. Anywho, this is a great college film that seperates itself from the rest in its genre (except a few such as Animal House or Road Trip). It has a descent cast, including Jeremy Piven and David Spade. It is quite funny and has many memorable parts, while keeping in mind the important topic of political correctness. I'm not saying the movie is politically correct, it's far from it, but it makes you think twice about it. Funny parts involve meat, stoners playing frisbee, certain Freshman year memories and many more. I personally enjoyed this movie, as should most people.

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Summary: Animal House For the 90's
Review: PCU is a 90's version of Animal House. Set at the fictional Port Chester University in Connecticut, the film centers around a fun loving fraternity who faces eviction from their frat house unless they come up with $7,500. for damages. Much like Animal House, a smarmy, white-bred priss teams with the dean to help aid in their ousting. The campus is overrun with political correctness from Womanysts, Afrocentrics, gay groups, stoners and others. The plotlines are predictable, but the cast lead by the extremely underrated Jeremy Piven, rise above the clichés to create an extremely enjoyable film. Mr. Piven stars as Droz, the leader of the group and he plans a blow out party at the house's main room, The Pit. His cohorts include Alex Desert as Muls, his smooth talking best friend, a young Jon Favreau (with a bizarre dreadlock hairdo) as the stoner Gutter, Megan Ward as the freshman Katy and Chris Young as a pre-freshman up for weekend to see if he wants to attend the school and who ends up ticking off almost the entire campus. They are pitted against the Dean Garcia-Thompson played with icy bluster by Jessica Walter and Rand McPherson played with unctuous smarm by David Spade. Through a series of mishaps, it looks like the party is going to be a bust. Then through a minor set of miracles, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic show up and play the party and they gather enough cash to pay the damages. It is still not enough to save them. In another Animal House parallel, the frat disrupts the school's Bicentennial celebration and ends up saving the house by getting the dean fired. PCU has TV movie like running time of barely one hour and twenty minutes, but its brevity helps keep the frantic pace up and it doesn't get bogged down in extraneous plotlines.

Rating:
Summary: Good Rainy Day Fun
Review: This film is another one of those great 90's comedy classics. It has something in it, maybe the memorable cast and the eccentric storyline, that just has everyone wanting to watch it again and again and again. It's like 'Dazed and Confused', just no Richard Linklater. But anyway, this film is a classic and a much better college classic than say, Van Wilder...although I do enjoy that, as well.

Pivitz and Favreu are a great working team. It's only a surprise Favreu doesn't use him a lot in his films, because here, they work. Although Favreu isn't the main character, he still takes the scene always. Need I mention David Spade, in his ego driven, highly right wing, conservative college student role? The characters are memorable to say the least.

The story is simple. Lame kid come to college. College crazy. Kid see crazy. Kid conquer crazy. Lame kid equal cool kid. It's simple, but the side stories, the soundtrack(funk and rock), and the time period where politically correct was bound for a long road...all just flow well.

PCU isn't a classic comedy. It's a classic cult comedy and because of that, it receives special treatment. I just wonder why most cult comedies receivesuch minimal DVD treatment, although this fairs better than Wayne's World, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison.

I'd buy it and for that price, you can't beat it. It's usually 10 bucks too.

Rating:
Summary: Animal House For the 90's
Review: PCU is a 90's version of Animal House. Set at the fictional Port Chester University in Connecticut, the film centers around a fun loving fraternity who faces eviction from their frat house unless they come up with $7,500. for damages. Much like Animal House, a smarmy, white-bred priss teams with the dean to help aid in their ousting. The campus is overrun with political correctness from Womanysts, Afrocentrics, gay groups, stoners and others. The plotlines are predictable, but the cast lead by the extremely underrated Jeremy Piven, rise above the clichés to create an extremely enjoyable film. Mr. Piven stars as Droz, the leader of the group and he plans a blow out party at the house's main room, The Pit. His cohorts include Alex Desert as Muls, his smooth talking best friend, a young Jon Favreau (with a bizarre dreadlock hairdo) as the stoner Gutter, Megan Ward as the freshman Katy and Chris Young as a pre-freshman up for weekend to see if he wants to attend the school and who ends up ticking off almost the entire campus. They are pitted against the Dean Garcia-Thompson played with icy bluster by Jessica Walter and Rand McPherson played with unctuous smarm by David Spade. Through a series of mishaps, it looks like the party is going to be a bust. Then through a minor set of miracles, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic show up and play the party and they gather enough cash to pay the damages. It is still not enough to save them. In another Animal House parallel, the frat disrupts the school's Bicentennial celebration and ends up saving the house by getting the dean fired. PCU has TV movie like running time of barely one hour and twenty minutes, but its brevity helps keep the frantic pace up and it doesn't get bogged down in extraneous plotlines.

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Summary: Heretics on Fire!
Review: I love this movie. It's not wonderful acting and it does not possess a great plot. It was a movie that reflected its time and for that, I for one, am quite thankful. "Stop Protesting" should be the mantra for this new century. PC, unfortunately, will never die but this movie went a long way to delegitimizing it. I had a laugh when I saw that this was rated #12 for Michigan universities--it would have to be based on my memories of visiting my friend's at Michigan. The universities are infested with wacko Foucaultian post-modernists and, even if we can't get rid of them, we should make fun of them relentlessly--which is exactly what this film does.

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Summary: Classic---Animal House<PCU<Old School
Review: Funny 80's college movie a classic must have hard to find anywhere...ebay doesn't have...

Rating:
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: "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.