When Mitch arrives from work and catches his wife preparing to have a gang bang with others, they break up and he moves to a house on the territory of a University campus. Mitch's friends Frank and Bernard decide to create a fraternity and party in the house with students. However, the Dean wants them banned and tricks student council president Megan into revoking their license. When Megan plays the tape of this conversation, which is practically a bribe, the Dean is replaced, while Mitch, Frank, Bernard and the others are allowed to keep their fraternity.
Another example of a populist comedy for low entertainment, "Old School" is a flat film with only a couple of really funny jokes, yet collapses along the way due to a mess of a story which looks more like a set of random episodes. The whole movie is a dumb comedy that works only and exclusively if there are good jokes at hand, yet not that many are that outstanding either, since just being zany or wacky or shouting isn't funny all by itself. In one of the best jokes, Frank and his team lined up a dozen candidates for their fraternity, placed them on a tall balcony, and tied all their penises to ropes attached to blocks of rock in order to test their trust. The test proceeds, all of the dozen heavy blocks are thrown down, and the ropes are all long enough to stop just on time—except that one block accidentally falls into a deep sewer, and thus the rope pulls one guy down, who falls on the floor. Another good one has the wives driving in a car, talking about a blow job seminar ("I am orally challenged"), until one of them spots her drunk husband Frank running naked on the street, and orders him to get inside the car to stop embarassing himself. The rest is weaker, since the chaos of these parties and insane characters becomes too much to be properly packaged into a movie. A small bright spot: the charming Sara Tanaka ("Rushmore") appears in three sequences as student council president Megan, and even though she was not given much to do in the movie, she enters her first scene like a boss, climbing up stairs in an empty stadium to meet the Dean and his assistant for a secret plan.
Grade:+
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