The Story:
The Fraternity that everyone wanted to be a part of, Delta House. The students, and I use that term loosely, are bent on having a good time. As they initiate their newest pledges, Larry (Tom Hulce) and Kent (Stephen Furst) the Deltas, led by Boone, Eric and Bluto (Peter Riegert, Tim Matheson and John Belushi) are going to show them everything not to do in college, in comparison to the uptight fraternity nearby, including the likes of Neidermeyer (Mark Metcalf) and Greg (James Daughton). Little do the Deltas know they are on double-secret probation from Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and he is out to expel the whole lot of them.
The results ensure that people will attend college for generations, just in the hopes that any part of this movie is real.
: )
So where do you begin? Harold Ramis' first movie that he wrote. Check.
John Belushi's first big screen role? Check.
John Landis' first big-budget feature film? Check.
First or early appearances for most of the cast? Check.
The name National Lampoon actually meant something? Check.
Welcome to lightning in a bottle. It doesn't happen with every movie, but when it does, it's often magical.
Don't believe me?
Consider that this movie is now...drumroll.... 35 years old.
And it's still as awesome as when it first came out.
Perhaps it's that perfect synergy of all those new people working and not knowing what they could and couldn't do, so they threw it all out there and hoped it would find an audience.
It did.
And it continues to find a new audience with every passing generation.
It's crude. It's crass.
It's a classic.
Final Grade: A
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I do own a copy, and it doesn't see much replay in the house because much of it is not intended for the demographic in my household. ; ) I'll probably have to show it to the older kids someday to warn them how NOT to do college. : )
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