I soiled myself laughing. See it Feb. 21st!
Beats the s**t out of Tupperware parties
Funniest Movie Line in Years: "Hi, I’m here for the gang bang?"
Story by Court Crandall, Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong
Screenplay by Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong
Directed by Todd Phillips
Luke Wilson Mitch Martin
Will Ferrell Frank
Vince Vaughn Beanie
Ellen Pompeo Nicole
Craig Kilborn Boyfriend
Juliette Lewis Heidi (Mitch’s girlfriend)
Leah Remini Lara (Beanie’s wife)
Andy Dick Teacher
Elisha Cuthbert The girl Mitch wakes up next to
Craig Kilborn Mark
Rick Gonzalez Spanish (the Latino kid with the big hair)
Artie Lange Booker
Jeremy Piven Dean Pritchen
Seann William Scott Party horse wrangler
Terry O’Quinn Mitch’s boss
Snoop Dogg Himself
Old School is a comedy from writer/director team of Road Trip. This in itself would not have gotten me in the theater, since I thought that movie was unoriginal and overrated. The fact that it had Will Ferrell wouldn’t have done the trick, not because I don’t like him (I’m probably not the only one to think he was the star of his cast of Saturday Night Live), it’s just that I’m not a huge fan of movies starrring SNL alumni, and most comedies today seem to be about based entirely about bodily fluids. But when my supervisor told me about it, he was uncharacteristically enthusiastic about it, and said that the audience actually applauded at the end of a screening we did for it a while back.
So I went.
It was good. The movie is billed as a comedy about three men in their 30’s (Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, and Vince Vaughn) who become disenchanted with life, and try to recapture the glory of their college days. In fact, the college connection merely becomes a means to an end. After the large house that milquetoast Mitch (Luke Wilson) moves into is rezoned so that it may only be used for school purposes, Mitch’s two friends, disillusioned by marriage, decide to turn the house into a fraternity as a way to get away from their families.
Comedies centered around schools are about as old as God, and there are some curious aspects of this one’s plot that make little sense. So what sells it?
Will Ferrell. The guy’s just a loon, and the movie is filled with hilarious moments that are all his. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but suffice to say that if the movie is marketed and advertised right, Will’s star will soar when it comes out. I should also say that Vince Vaughn is dead-on in the movie, there’s plenty of funny lines, and I was so pleased that there wasn’t a SINGLE gag having anything to do with urine, fecal matter or semen.
Now why couldn’t Leah Remini have been present during that class that Andy Dick was teaching?
The way Beanie and Lara’s kids were shown just confused me. Lara has an infant at the wedding, and Beanie has him when Mitch first sees his new house, but then throughout the rest of the movie, we see them with a six year-old. Was there an time jump? Everything in the movie indicated there wasn’t. And then during the bits shown during the end credits, there’s the infant again! Why aren’t these two kids ever seen together during the film?
You can view the trailer at the official site at http://www.oldschool-themovie.com/. The movie comes out February 21st.
Just viewed the trailer... who IS that old guy that looks like he's a hundred years old? He pops up in everything, doesn't he?
That's Blue. Hide the K/Y jelly.
You're my boy, Blue!