Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers R (Restricted)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN num: 9780783263564
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN number: 0783263562
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 8507
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1978
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The delta house is scheming to keep itself from being kicked off campus and led by belushis bluto they do so without much hope--but with many laughs. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: John Belushi Kevin Bacon Run time: 109 minutes Rated by buyers R Director: John Landis
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This is one of those movies that works for all the wrong reasons--disgusting, lowbrow, base humour that we are all far too sophisticated to find amusing. So, just don't tell anyone you still think it's a riot to watch John Belushi as the brutish Bluto slurp Jell-O or terrorize his less-aggressive fellow students. This crude parody of college life in the '60s spawned many imitations, but none could match the fresh-faced talent or bad taste of this huge box office success. (Remember all those toga parties in the '80s?) The very first of the National Lampoon movies, this was originally released as National Lampoon's Animal House. Keep an eye out for a very young Kevin Bacon in his very first credited screen appearance. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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I 1st saw this movie in 1980 and its hilarious john belushi gives a greatest performance, i liked it
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I was so excited when this special edition came out, I bought it right away. As I did with many other old faves. I might as well have been sitting in the theatre, wasting all of my popcorn and soda on the commercials and previews. By the time the main feature finally comes on, I am out of snacks and I have to pee. I will always love this movie, and the extra "where are they now" was cool. But you can find out where they are now by going online. Seriously, as another reviewer suggested, buy the original cut if you don't own this movie yet.
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I love this movie and so will you. All though my college life was nothing like this, it makes me long for toga parties, food fights and road trips. There are so many memorable scenes that you only have to watch the movie several times before you can qoute all the characters.
If you have any sort of sense of humour and enjoy older movies than I insist that you buy Animal House you will not regret it.
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...the forced previews and trailers before the movie are annoying. I couldn't believe that I couldn't skip through that crap... I also must note that there was no use of the pause button while the movie was playing. If I wanted to pause the film to go to the kitchen, I had to stop the DVD.
But seriously...
THIS IS ANIMAL HOUSE!
Who really cares about the five minutes of previews and the inconvenience of not being able to pause the movie?
It's Animal House!
It's a classic!
5 stars.
Sit through the previews. Take that time to run to the kitchen. Come back and enjoy one of the all time great American comedies.
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Part of what made NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE so beloved when it came out in 1978 was its spirit of anarchy, embodied by John Belushi as the frat house hero Bluto Blutarsky; people who have heard about the film who watch it for the very first time may be surprised how few lines he actually has in it (still, he seems to preside). The film's climax, which involves the title fraternity of Delta House wreaking utter havoc on a parade in their college's small town is nothing more than a celebration of the pleasures of pure chaos, and the film is at its funniest when it shows the rules of society utterly breaking down. The plot mechanism, which has been celebrated countless times since, is that the more the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon, having a grand old time with a scenery-chewing performance) imposes restrictions on Delta House, the more wild their counterresponse. The film's popularity centered upon the beer bashes, food fights, toga parties, and roadtrips that get completely out of hand.
Yet watching it again, it is amazing that despite the film's celebration of anarchy the two central figures are really the two smug frathouses smoothies, Otter and Boon (Tim Matheson and Peter Riegert) who smirk and ooze their way through the plot and are responsible for most of the story's machinations. They're not very funny, and are the direct ancestors of such similarly insufferable entitled rich boys from film comedy as Ferris Bueller and Van Wilder. Certainly Otter and Boon are better than their despicable counterparts in the Omega fraternity (who enjoy mocking fat pledges and scheming with the Dean); the film constantly sets it up spatially (particularly in the student court's hearing scene) as if these are the only two possible choices in life: you're either a Delta, or you're an Omega. This seems to belie the spirit of social anarchy the film elsewhere so happily and rudely celebrates. The likable and funny two actors who begin the film, Tom Hulce and Steven Furst, as Pinto and Flounder, skate right past this uncomfortableness, as does the wonderful comic actress Martha Smith as a Southern-belle co-ed (she has some of the film's funniest moments).
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