Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many years ago, the Harvard Lampoon had a bunch of writers who were really funny. Unlike the vast majority of their predecessors and successors in the dim reaches of that silly building on Mt. Auburn St., they were given to more than the occasional inspired burst of humor breaking through a floundering mass of sophomoric attempts at cleverness. And these folks had the good luck to be really funny during the late '60s, a period that called for an unusually strong and radically different sense of humor. Some of the writers probably had trust funds--certainly one of them majored...
...that its readers are older. The things that were funny when you were 15 frequently seem a little stupid when you're 20. The Ivy League jokesters, it seemed, needed a new challenge, and true to the traditions of American enterprise, they decided to pull together all their collegiate humor and stuck it in a movie...
...easily offended. It is easily the funniest movie of the year. Much of it merits praise, even lavish praise. But it is interesting to note how much they've stuck to their original gags, how they've maintained the edge of offensiveness tempered by outrageousness and good humor. And insipidly enough, Animal House is also quite the Ivy League film. For Animal House is the ultimate Dartmouth movie--or, at least the ultimate rendering of the characteristically snotty Harvard image of Dartmouth (which seems to be somewhat justified)--animalistic, incredibly horny, crude beer-swillers run amok in the tundra. Former...
From toga parties to road trips to the first fumbling attempts at sex, Animal House covers all the bases of collegiate lunacy. A few of the scenes miss, usually when, as in the magazine, sheer tastelessness outweighs the humor. One such scene has a bunch of Deltas and their dates stopping in at what turns out to be an all-black bar. All in fun, supposedly, but there really is nothing funny about perpetuating the stereotypes that lead to racism, even casual racism. And at times the noticeable tendency of the writers to repeat old gags becomes annoying--even some...
...deal, you think? Well, just try to remember that this is Victorian England, and the entire ambiance of constipation is no coincidence. This aptly illustrates the play's only shortcoming--the wan sense of humor in the early scenes. Innes McDade's Mrs. Manningham is believably portrayed throughout the production, but during that first scene, it is astounding how easily she is made to cry and wail and grovel and admit that she is crazy. A little temperance would have been as welcome as a sedative in the Fenway Park bleachers...