National Lampoon's Animal House
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Animal House has just been released on DVD, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. If you haven’t seen it before, then you’ve been living under a rock behind the local Tibetan monastery. Believe me when I tell you that this movie is low-brow humor at its best. This is one of those movies that I’ve loved for years but have been afraid to review because I doubt I can do it justice.

It’s a movie about the rivalry between two fraternities at Faber College, the uptight-ultra-conservative Omegas and the drunken brothers of Delta house. The hi-jinks start from the very beginning of the movie but don’t kick off in full force until the head of the college, Dean Wormer, decides to shut down the Deltas. When he finally is able to close down the Delta fraternity, they do the only logical thing. The guys build a renegade float and run rampant at the homecoming parade. Along the way to being thrown off campus, the Delta brothers make a road trip to find dates, shoplift sweaters full of meat from the grocery store, try to pick up the Dean’s wife, and spend the evenings watching sorority girl pillow fights through second story windows.

Animal House is the movie that really brought low-brow mainstream. Thanks to this movie, the toga party became a fraternity institution. It was this movie that taught us that food fights were good, clean fun. For some of us, it became the model of what college life should be. Heck, I had a pledge brother that thought Bluto was a god among men and lived our freshman year trying to emulate him. For most people -- the ones with common sense -- it was a really funny movie that took spoofs to a new level. The movie launched more than one movie career and gave National Lampoon the impetus to get into the movie business in a big way.

The version that’s just been released is the “Double Secret Probation” edition. (That’s an inside joke, kids -- rent the movie and you’ll get it.) It doesn’t come with all of the extra features that a newer movie does when released on DVD. What it does have is a great featurette that updates viewers on what the characters have been up to since getting kicked out of Faber College. The only two characters from the movie who don’t appear in the update are John Belushi and Kevin Bacon. With Bacon, though, you do get him doing a voice-over in character.

Full of laughs and great one-liners -- this movie is indeed a classic of modern times. There are tons of sex jokes, an exposed breast or two or three, and a horse killing, so if those types of things offend you, find a way to get over it. You need to own this movie and watch it often. It’s just that simple.

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