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| Comedy 1 hr. 31 min. MPAA Rating: R for some strong sexual content, nudity and language. Release Date: February 21st, 2003. Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Ellen Pompeo Directed by: Todd Phillips |
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Mitch is a lawyer who is in his 30’s and one day he decides to catch and early flight home from a conference and gets home early to find his girlfriend in bed with two other people. Frank is about to just get married and finds himself not sure if he wants to be tied down. And beanie is a successful business owner who is married with children but wishes he wasn’t. So now that Mitch’s relationship has broken up Beanie gets him a house right on college campus. But after a party goes amiss and pisses off the College Dean Mitch is going to be evicted from his house. But Beanie comes up with an idea to start a fraternity of his own out of the house that will allow them to stay there as well as to help Mitch try and get over his broken relationship. But also to try and help himself see some hot young college women. So in fraternity spirit they gather a motley crew of misfits to be pledges and begin to haze them in college spirit. But Mitch’s life is falling around him, Frank is having marital trouble and Beanie is just out to have fun regardless of whom he hurts in the process
What a dry and boring movie. The trailers basically give away the best parts of the movie and the rest of the movie is trying to find something to be funny about as it moves from one boring scene to a somewhat funny scene and back to boring again and again. The movie did occasionally have a really funny moment but it was lost in the humorlessness of the rest of the movie. The movie mocks everything especially if it has to do with married life while mixing in foul language, nudity and pointlessness in a hodgepodge of a movie that wasn’t funny at all. There has been and still are much funnier movies about college fraternities and the havoc that ensues that this movie tries to impersonate but fails miserably. It’s like an Animal House meets boredom of the new century. Luke Wilson walks through most of the movie I am sure asking himself how he got involved in such a bad movie. While Will Ferrell plays it so over the top he becomes less and less funny as the movie progresses. There was only one truly funny scene that made me bust a gut laughing at and I don’t think they intended it to be as funny as it ended up being. Stay away the few laughs are not worth the rest of the movies tedium.
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