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2.5 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 11 critic reviews
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Based on 16 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Adam Ellison
Dan Callahan

Directed by: Deb Hagan

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 29, 2008
DVD: January 27, 2009

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug and alcohol abuse

Starring Gary Owens, Ryan Pinkston, Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett, Nick Zano, and Camille Mana

A new outrageous comedy, College is the story of three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshman anticipating the best weekend of their lives. Once there, the rowdiest fraternity on campus decides to recruit the boys as pledges, subjecting them to endless humiliations, in return for granting them access to the no-holds-barred college party scene. But once the boys catch the eye of some of the older sorority girls, the threatened Frat-boys increase the pre-frosh humiliation and blackmail them by threatening to expose their age. The boys decide to fight back, retaliating with a major revenge scheme that lands them on top. What began as the weekend-from-hell turns into the BEST. WEEKEND. EVER. (MGM)

What The Critics Said

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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.

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40

Variety Rob Nelson

Hardly superbad, but sorta OK.

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38

TV Guide Ken Fox

An ugly, unfunny frat comedy.

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30

The New York Times Laura Kern

Strains to sell itself as one crazy ride (raging parties! hot lesbian sex! bare breasts!), and chances are it won't disappoint those looking solely for unadulterated raunch.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

This low-rent frat house comedy is at once far more vulgar and decidedly less anarchic than its obvious inspiration and should flunk out of theaters before this year's crop of freshman students even finish unpacking their bags.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Kamal AL-Solaylee

In the battle for the hearts, minds and fat wallets of North American teens, College fights dirtier and sinks lower than most gross-out screen comedies.

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20

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can.

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16

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

God-awful.

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12

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The grime, filth, slop, vomit, and crotch-nibbling pigs double all too easily as a recipe for this movie's failure. It hasn't been made so much as excreted.

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0

LA Weekly Nick Pinkerton

Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is reviewing something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity.

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Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

College, a film so persistently loud and annoying that it single-handedly makes the case for drugging yourself with a roofie.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 2.5 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jonas H. gave it a3:
I giggled at moments, and the movie definitely has its moments, but oh my god it's bad. It is so obvious that it sticks to a structure it's awkwardly, embarrassingly obvious, as if the creators made no effort at all to make it seemless. It's definitely the worst college/high-school movie produced this decade.

Wayne N. gave it a0:
This is the filthiest put down of our youth and higher education that you could put on the screen and charge people to see. I walked out and I blame myself for not reviewing it better.

Gerron K gave it a5:
It has its good moments, but still a weak entry into the genre.

Anonymous gave it a0:
This movie was glaringly formulae. The acting was terrible but the directing was absolutely ridiculous. I mean, the dialogue and scene transitions were so banal and inane I was in utter disbelief. This is the worst attempt at film making I can remember seeing in a theater and possible anywhere for that matter. I feel remote and despondent after having witnessed such a painfully pathetic example of what the human mind can accomplish.

Chad S. gave it a0:
Morris(Kevin Covais) puts it out there; the notion about senior year being the last go-around for he and his high school buddies. But before "College" goes lowbrow in the most puerile ways imaginable, Morris tries to connect with Kevin(Drake Bell) and Carter(Andrew Caldwell) in the same intimate manner that Judd Apatow's characters do on a regular basis. It's a short-lived moment. Although films such as "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express" should've put an end to the neo-teen sex comedy, "College" gives it the old college try, but a film in the key of "American Pie"("Band Camp" & "The Naked Mile" went straight to DVD) is passe. The failure of "College" to entice moviegoers officially makes Apatow the John Hughes of this generation. By the time the third installment of "Porky's"("Porky's Revenge") rolled out into domestic theaters(and drive-ins!), Hughes' "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club" made moviegoers clamor for thoughtful teenagers who were a little horny, not the other way around. Like the creator of "Freaks and Geeks", Hughes humanized the young American on screen, and in the audience. Straight males in Apatow films are allowed to share their feelings with members of the same sex(Jonah Hill & Michael Cera in "Superbad"), but in "College", to be emotionally frank with a guy is "too gay". That's why Morris goes on a bender, frequently uses profanity, and screws a college girl. "College" is old school. Only girlfriends are allowed to convey their anxiety about losing each other after graduation is over. But Morris need not worry, because the best joke in "College" suggests that he'll be seeing a lot of Kevin and Carter in the future. The three principal leads, albeit not dead ringers, bear a physical resemblance, and have similar personas, to the record shop employees in Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity"(based on the novel by Nick Hornby).

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