Word: frat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winter Carnival time again, and up at Dartmouth College nearly everything seems to be in place. Boys and girls together. Beer flowing like champagne in the frat houses. The temperature at 15° below and more than a foot of snow on the ground. The population of Hanover, N.H., swollen to nearly twice normal size for the long weekend, as 4,000 dates stream into town from as far off as Southern Methodist University...
Most Predictable TV Trend: in the wake of the National Lampoon's Animal House, all three networks have announced frat-house sitcoms to premiere in early...
...summer and you didn't see this movie? What's the matter with you? Anyway, this is what you might call a very funny movie, if you can manage to disengage your refinement and prepare yourself to laugh at some incredibly sophomoric humor. This is the ultimate college frat movie, complete with sex jokes, beer jokes, dope jokes, preppies jokes, and just plain dumb jokes. Nevertheless, this story of a renegade frat at an uptight early-'60s college is a good way to spend three bucks and a couple of hours. And, you know, it even reminds me of Dartmouth...
...film's plot has something to do with the efforts of a mean dean (John Vernon) to shut down the frat house, but it is really just an excuse for a series of bits that are far too hot for TV's Saturday Night Live. We watch the homoerotic rituals of a fraternity initiation and the orgiastic excesses of an all-night "toga" party. In one funny if discomforting scene, white students show up at a black nightspot and try, without notable success, to display some soul. Animal House ends with a where-are-they-now epilogue that...
...stoned expression. Karen Allen charms as Katy, the girlfriend of one of the Deltas who thinks the whole gang is incredibly childish, if funny. And Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst as, respectively, the nerdy and corpulent freshmen pledges who first gawk at, then engage in, the wildness of the frat effectively portray the change from immature awkwardness to full-fledged idiocy...