TO-GA! TO-GA! TO-GA! Just about the most legendary college movie, what can be said about Animal House that isn’t better howled by drunk students nationwide? Can you think of a more indelible and quoted vision of higher education than this? Can anyone conjure a greater party animal in the history of cinema than Belushi’s Bluto Blutarsky? With a meme’d influence than can be measured in exponential trillions of obliterated brains cells, the National Lampoon team set the bar way too high for collegiate debauchery and we’ve been reaching for it ever since.
“The movie is vulgar, raunchy, ribald, and occasionally scatological. It is also the funniest comedy since Mel Brooks made The Producers (1968). Animal House is funny for some of the same reasons the National Lampoon is funny (and Second City and Saturday Night Live are funny): Because it finds some kind of precarious balance between insanity and accuracy, between cheerfully wretched excess and an ability to reproduce the most revealing nuances of human behavior. 4 Stars” – Roger Ebert
