MOTD : Accepted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Picture: Ferris Bueller runs a University...lets just say, you know Animal House? Well this gentlemen, is Animal SCHOOL!
That's how this movie was probably pitched. Sadly, by having a 50% as charming Bueller wannabe and by not being set in the past or having anything to do with actual university, college, community college or life it manages to fail on every claim.
It's based on two very flawed ideas: One, that everyone's parents and the world thinks they should go immediately to post-secondary (ANY POST SECONDARY) after highshcool or they'll be a failure. Also, there's this vibe that it's incredibly hard to get into any college (and I stress ANY COLLEGE) if you are at all an outsider or cool or even smart or just not a toolish robot. In fact the rejection is so common it's basically akin to any other form of rejection so anyone who's ever been rejected should band together against colleges. In fact you should make YOUR OWN school.
To this movie every university, college, or existing post-secondary institution is ridiculous because they are just you paying for everyone to tell you that you are smart. Tests, schoolbooks and everything else is ridiculous. In fact every school is basically a frat...or is run like a frat...they complain about that a lot.The problem is that other schools don't cater to the individual student...they are just fucking robot factories man! Everyone knows what they want, just nobody bothered to ask them so, in effect, this movie is a kind of liberal arts college wet dream. Self directed learning (or not , you know whatever, is what is important).
Now I hear you saying : Jesus Cam , it's a fucking stupid comedy why dissect it so hard? Well, if you don't give me much to laugh at I just kind of have to actually examine the plot. Here you've got a main character I don't care much about and otherwise the film is chockablock with wacky characters aren't that funny. Stock whore, idiot, ADD kid (nicknamed ADD) , skater, crazy dude, nerd girl who the main guy should secretly like...The only character of interest is Lewis Black's burnt out college professor brought back to the fold but, again, it's warped sense of how the post-secondary system works really removes most of the punch his character has outside of Black's own enjoyable rhetoric.
Plot-wise of course they have the school but The MAN (Fratboy boyfriend of the guys high school crush AND an evil dean) wants to stop it. They don't want to be judged by what they look like. They apparently learned something...though it isn't very evident. I don't need to go into the rest.
It's brainless and not much fun.The highs aren't highs, the lows aren't low. Barely a laugh every 15 minutes. The only thing I got out of it was a slightly higher opinion of Johan Hill who usually I hate, even in Apatow stuff, but was passable here.
Um yeah. That's about that.
Tomorrow: It's friday. If I'm cool, nothing. If I'm lame maybe two movies?
Cam
Picture: Ferris Bueller runs a University...lets just say, you know Animal House? Well this gentlemen, is Animal SCHOOL!
That's how this movie was probably pitched. Sadly, by having a 50% as charming Bueller wannabe and by not being set in the past or having anything to do with actual university, college, community college or life it manages to fail on every claim.
It's based on two very flawed ideas: One, that everyone's parents and the world thinks they should go immediately to post-secondary (ANY POST SECONDARY) after highshcool or they'll be a failure. Also, there's this vibe that it's incredibly hard to get into any college (and I stress ANY COLLEGE) if you are at all an outsider or cool or even smart or just not a toolish robot. In fact the rejection is so common it's basically akin to any other form of rejection so anyone who's ever been rejected should band together against colleges. In fact you should make YOUR OWN school.
To this movie every university, college, or existing post-secondary institution is ridiculous because they are just you paying for everyone to tell you that you are smart. Tests, schoolbooks and everything else is ridiculous. In fact every school is basically a frat...or is run like a frat...they complain about that a lot.The problem is that other schools don't cater to the individual student...they are just fucking robot factories man! Everyone knows what they want, just nobody bothered to ask them so, in effect, this movie is a kind of liberal arts college wet dream. Self directed learning (or not , you know whatever, is what is important).
Now I hear you saying : Jesus Cam , it's a fucking stupid comedy why dissect it so hard? Well, if you don't give me much to laugh at I just kind of have to actually examine the plot. Here you've got a main character I don't care much about and otherwise the film is chockablock with wacky characters aren't that funny. Stock whore, idiot, ADD kid (nicknamed ADD) , skater, crazy dude, nerd girl who the main guy should secretly like...The only character of interest is Lewis Black's burnt out college professor brought back to the fold but, again, it's warped sense of how the post-secondary system works really removes most of the punch his character has outside of Black's own enjoyable rhetoric.
Plot-wise of course they have the school but The MAN (Fratboy boyfriend of the guys high school crush AND an evil dean) wants to stop it. They don't want to be judged by what they look like. They apparently learned something...though it isn't very evident. I don't need to go into the rest.
It's brainless and not much fun.The highs aren't highs, the lows aren't low. Barely a laugh every 15 minutes. The only thing I got out of it was a slightly higher opinion of Johan Hill who usually I hate, even in Apatow stuff, but was passable here.
Um yeah. That's about that.
Tomorrow: It's friday. If I'm cool, nothing. If I'm lame maybe two movies?
Cam
posted by Cam at 11:21 PM
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