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Summary: A Fantastic Anamorphic Transfer Makes up for the Previews!!
Review: I can't believe all these people who are pi**ed off because they have to watch a couple of movie previews which only lasts a couple of minutes. Now if they were commercials for products like food, cars, etc then I would have been pi**ed off but at least it's just a couple of previews for other movies and you can watch a hilarious movie like Animal House in a fantastic anamorphic widescreen transfer and being a major John Belushi fan this was a must buy DVD for my collection and I'm not sorry I bought it one bit! The only thing that I wish this DVD had was deleted scenes and other such outtakes but oh well, maybe someday they will put out a more extensive DVD release but this DVD hits the spot until then!
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Summary: Great Movie, Horrible DVD
Review: I refuse to sit through advertising which can not be skipped on a DVD. And while I love this movie, I guess I will have to stick to my VHS tape. Too bad that Universal thinks they can force us to watch advertising. The worst part is, if I get a phone call half way through the movie and leave, and want to start the movie later, I have to watch the same annoying advertising again. Anytime the DVD player is turned off, it forces the advertising to be watched again. How about having those ad's as a special feature for those who want to watch them? Why force everyone to watch them?? I will boycott anything from Universal because of this.
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Summary: This movie is a funfest!
Review: Title of film: National Lampoon's Animal House
Year Released: 1978
Running time: 109 minutes
Director/studio: John Landis/Universal Studios
Actors/Actresses: John Belushi......"Bluto"
Tim Matheson......"Otter"
John Vernon......."Dean Wormer"
Verna Bloom......."Marion Wormer"
Tom Hulce........."Pinto"
Cesare Danova....."The Mayor"
Peter Riegert....."Boon"
Mary Louise Weller...."Mandy Pepperidge
Stephen Furst........."Flounder" Dorfman
James Daughton........"Greg Marmalard"
Bruce McGill.........."D-Day"
Mark Metcalf.........."Douglas Neidermeyer"
Karen Allen..........."Katy Fuller"
James Widdoes........."Robert Hoover"
Martha Smith.........."Babs"
Lisa Baur............."Shelly Dubinsky"
Sarah Holcomb........."Clorette De Pasto"
Kevin Bacon..........."Chip Diller"
Donald Sutherland....."Professor Jennings"
Douglas Kenney........"Stork"
Chris Miller.........."Hardbar"
Bruce Bonnheim........"B.B."
Joshua Daniel........."Mothball"
Sunny Johnson........."Otters Co-ed"
Stacy Grooman........."Sissy"
Stephen Bishop........"Guy with guitar"
Eliza Roberts........."Brunella"
Aseneth Jurgenson....."Beth"
Katherine Denning....."Noreen"
Raymone Robinson......"Mean Dude"
Robert Elliott........"Meaner Dude"
Reginald Farmer......."Meanest Dude"
Jebidiah R. Dumas....."Gigantic Dude"
Priscilla Lauris......"Wormer's Secretary"
Rick Eby.............."Omega"
Nominations/Awards:
1979 Won People's Choice Award for Favorite Non-Musical Motion Picture
1979 Nominated WGS Screen Award Category/Recipients--Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller (III), Harold Ramis Faber College during fall fraternity pledge season is the place all young men want to be regardless of societal ranking. The disparity between two of the fraternities is quickly evident when we see the wealthy white young men recruiting look-a-likes to join their fraternity and snubbing wannabe's who don't quite measure up. The wealthy frat house has the approval of the school's Dean Wormer and he despises with a passion the characters who choose Delta House fraternity. Dean Wormer wants Delta House off of his campus and he asks Omega House (the rich boys) to help him accomplish this task. This is where the fun begins. It doesn't take long for the viewer to realize that fun-loving, sloppy, middle-class guys inhabit Delta house and they live for pulling pranks on the Omega House fraternity and Dean Wormer. This movie truly portrays college life on campuses during the 1970's. The underdog Delta House is only looking for acceptance and they won't stop at anything to achieve it! The pledge class consists of all the rejects from Omega House not only from this year but year's past. Together this group works together to undo Dean Wormer's wish to rid their house from his campus. Flounder's experience with the horse is hysterical. The lunchroom scene with Bluto is classic. Otter's "happy-go-lucky" love interests including Dean Wormer's life are characteristic of a young man's college sexual escapades of the 70's. The closing of the Delta House and the road trip are comical. And finally the parade of all parades allows Delta House to get their revenge. Scenes from this movie stay with you forever! Keep smiling as you relive quotes and replay scenes in your mind years after viewing this very funny film!
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Summary: Classic College Movie
Review: This is one hilarous movie! My dad always used to tell me how good it was and how he watched it when he was in college, but I never believed him. When I got a DVD player as a gift from my boyfriend my freshman year of college, it was one of the first movies that I purchased. It is so funny and it's a great movie to watch with your friends while you're relaxing and having a few beers! I think that everyone who has ever experienced college parties should be buying this movie because you probably never experienced a party like the guys on Animal House throw! Enjoy!!
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Summary: comical and wicked
Review: I watched this 2 times on tv .and laughed so hard
Belushi and the rest of the cast are histerical
then my aunt and I rented it on vhs. she didn't laugh as much as I did
I have this on dvd and love it more and more every time I see the whole cast on screen
who can forget timeless scenes where Belushi sees a guy playing a guitar. snaps and busts the heck out of it
it's funny there because you wouldn't expect someone to do that
the movie is not always predictable because not everyone always acts the same on a situation. it's true. see this movie if you're a Belushi fan. it's gross, wicked, funny, touching and just a smart comedy that goes to show you what college life is hopefully not like now a days. hehe :)
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Summary: 3 Stooges with Snappier Dialoge
Review: Animal House was a changing of the Hollywood comedy guard in 1978. Serious films like The Godfather directed by Coppola or Taxi Driver by Scorcese, which both appeared in the 70's brought the French New Wave and Post-War Italian techniques to America and hence, film became edgier and realistic.
Bob Hope, Doris Day, and Sandra Dee dominated the 60's with light comedy, breezy shtick, and virginated sex comedy. Looking back to the early 60's, the Kennedy years, America was not going to deal with those crazy college kids and their first attempts at capturing what was left of the Beatnik Era. With a simmering middle class producing college bound kids in baby boom numbers, the youth culture looked for their own laugh statement.
2nd City, National Lampoon, and Saturday Night Live writers and performers finally got the Hollywood green light, so naturally, with pent up baby boomer instinct, they produced the most influential comedy of the last twenty-five years.
The boys of Delta are essentially The Three Stooges with snappier dialogue. That's the similarity, but the difference is about rebellion and sex. The nubile young girls truly show their stuff. Dean Wormer's wife is a middle-aged Victoria's Secret. The Sandra Dee look-a-likes are daffy and weirdly sexual, almost perverted, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Does it hold up 25 years later? This is tricky. My generation will always love a spirited laugher about the old days when we did some pretty risky stuff. Today, a college student, living a moderately Charlotte Simmons's lifestyle might yawn with studied angst. I give it to you Dean Wormer!
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Summary: What a piece of garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2
Review: This movie blows, I don't understand how you people could like this crap. The original was way better.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Fraternity Movies of All Times.
Review: The late 1970s were a great time for movies. JAWS, STAR WARS, and a slew of other movies changed not only the way movies were made, but how movies were viewed as well. Though there are some whom cannot seem to admit it, ANIMAL HOUSE falls in that same category. Not only did the film father (REVENGE OF THE NERDS, PORKYS, and a host of others originate from ANIMAL HOUSE) a whole new type of movie (raunchy, but humorous college film), but because of the movie's success, "different" types of movies were made that never would have gotten passed the script stage. The film was original titled NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE and was the first of many movies to bear the National Lampoon name in its title.
ANIMAL HOUSE revolves around the hijinks of a fraternity at Fraber College somewhere in Pennsylvania. The fraternity, Delata House (whose offical name changes subtly in the movie from Delat Chi Tau to Deltat Tau Chi), is put on probabation and Dean Wormer wants to shut the place down. Delta House is a frat that accepts everyone that the other frats won't accept. Therefore, the movie ends up becoming a crazy story about a bunch of mismatched underdogs who band together to, well, just keep their fraternity.
Directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney, the movie was loosely based on their own personal college experiences. The movie has an ensemble cast, but it is John Belushi as Bluto who steals the show. His role in movie is the one that fixed his place as a Hollywood star. The movie started the career of several other actors (e.g. Tim Matheson) and revived the careers of other (Donald Sutherland). It also features Kevin Bacon in his first movie appearance.
ANIMAL HOUSE is the college movie. Despite the low laughs, nudity, and sophomoric pranks, every college movie made since ANIMAL HOUSE lives in its shadow. Though there times the movie becomes somewhat tasteless, it tempers those moments with wit and quick dialogue. Personally, there are several scenes in the movie that I could have done without and which really didn't add anything to the plot. However, I can appreciate the film for what it is and take something away, despite my misgivings. Now, may I have ten thousand marbles, please?
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Summary: Animal House
Review: What can I say about this film? This film is a truly laugh out loud sensation that'll leave you begging for more. The film is starts out with these young college freshman that are trying to get sworn in at a local fraternity, but they end up in all kinds of misadventures along the way together. Although the film is a bit ridiculous at times, it never stops being funny. With great scenes like the Toga party, the infamous trial scene, or even the famous revenge scheme at the end, you'll never stop laughing. When I first saw this movie, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen and laughed the whole night away. Overall, this is one of the greatest comedies I've ever seen.
As for the DVD, you can fast forward through the advertisements at the beginning of the disc.
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Summary: Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son
Review: It was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost!
Animal House is one of the top 5 funniest movie of all time. Period. It does not matter how many times you have seen this movie, every time it is on you watch it, and every time you watch it, you almost die laughing. This is one of the feel good movies of all time, which you wish Landis, released the original 175-minute version, or eventually would.
Animal House is directed by John Landis (Beverly Hills Cop III, Three Amigos, Spies Like Us, Coming to America, and Trading Places), who indeed, has a very impressive resume. You should watch his movie based on that alone. However, he does have a pretty impressive cast he worked with. Notice Landis may have directed two of the funniest movies ever made in Animal House and Coming to America, and maybe three of the top ten comedies of all time when you throw in Trading Places.
John Belushi (January 24, 1949-March 5, 1982) was in his prime, and looked to be a budding star because of this movie. Belushi was the highest paid actor in this movie, making $40,000. His wife was quoted as saying Belushi looked at this movie as his launching pad. Belushi put everything he had into this movie, in every scene, and his performance is marvelous.
Tim Matheson (famous voice of Johnny Quest (original), Fletch, Drop Dead Fred, She's All That) plays Otter, the smooth womanizer. Otter is a quick thinker, who has a soft spot in his heart for pledges who wouldn't make it into other fraternities. He is a leader, a good friend, and a troublemaker, all at the same time.
Peter Riegert (Traffic, The Mask) plays Boone, who discovers his girlfriend (Karen Allen) is having an affair with his teacher (Donald Sutherland). Boone is also a trouble maker, is best friends with Otter, and though doesn't have that soft spot in his heart that Otter has, makes up for it by being hard headed, and stubborn (his scene with the cops is classic).
Animal House should be one of the first five DVD's you ever purchase. It belongs front and center in your DVD collection, and did I mention no DVD collection could be complete without it. The special features are nice, and seeing Landis call out facial expressions and watching Belushi act them out is a can't miss feature.
Grade: A+
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