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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1   "Will Ferrell is as funny as ever here, but this 'don't-act-your-age' comedy would be almost a total disaster without him."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 1.5/5 "As reviewers, this is likely our punishment for condemning so many of these films in the past."   NutzWorld   Blake French 10/10 "An invigorating reminder that comedies can just be comedies and still attain excellence."   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf C+ "It’s insipid, and Will Ferrell streaks through it naked. No, it’s not an SNL skit... it’s the latest college frat film, and it’s marginally ok at best."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "... the thrill of Old School is that its characters, no matter how minute or underdeveloped, are quite comically engaging."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 2.5/4 "Old School is that rare comedy that, although it's not tremendously funny, still manages to entertain due to some impressively strong performances and a brisk pace."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Neither funny nor likable nor charming nor particularly entertaining, Old School is a big-screen comedic bust that flunks out in every department."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "For its genre -- ridiculous, subversive films that young people like -- it's above-average, and a nice reminder that when you get right down to it, college is pretty silly."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "Old School is testament that even the greatest improvisers in the world should be avoiding directors such as Todd Phillips like the clap."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C+ "Old School is a frustrating movie, a comedy that seems to aim for vulgar, ludicrous heights and then hedges its bets."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C- "The recess bell should have rung immediately into the first period of this frothy yet flat and insufferable scholastic satire."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng F "It doesn't know the difference between being a comedy and being a failure, trying to accomplish one, but ending up succeeding at the other."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng 2/4 "Annoyingly familiar and empty in its hedonistic heavy-handedness, Old School is as shrewdly shocking and vibrant as spending time in detention with a throbbing headache."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng F "A dismally unfunny, crass and rambling farce that flunks out on every conceivable level."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "In an era when a viewer is lucky to find one or two humorous moments during the course of a 90-minute so-called 'comedy,' Old School delivers with surprising effectiveness."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "ultimately a conservative story, one in which hedonistic partying gives way to a dutiful return to the responsibilities of adult life"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "This college-set comedy has plenty of gas in the tank thanks to its lead actors, but it never arrives at true greatness."   Netflix   James Rocchi 7/10 "Ferrell ... goes the extra mile and becomes the life of the party."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3/10 "Certainly not as bad or painful to sit through as last year's Van Wilder, but still rather flat comedically and certainly dramatically."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 6/10 "As God is my witness, I really wanted to love this movie! Unfortunately, I liked it quite a bit, but didn't think it was as funny as it could have been."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 6/10 "When an Oster Breadmaker gets some of the film's biggest laughs, you know the thing's in trouble."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 4/5 "I can't believe it, but I want to see it again."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2/4 "Will Farrell can sometimes go so over the top he's just not funny any more. This isn't one of those times."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "The film makes any red-blooded American male long for everything that made college fun."   Film Threat   Kevin Carr 4/5 "Will Ferrell is a fearless comedian, and he commits completely to his insanity in the film, and that makes it work."   Film Threat   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Movies like 'Old School' are no masterpieces, but a guy like Will Ferrell is able to somehow lift them up beyond mediocrity into hilarity."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A "My throat was sore from laughing so hard"   Countingdown.com   Larry Carroll 1/4 "If someone isn't even going to bother to tell me a joke, don't expect me to laugh."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 2/4 "Except for a few highlights, Old School is not funny enough to make a movie"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Luke Wilson is a charmer, as always, but his doormat of a dork [can’t] carry even this slight tale."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Old School may not be a magna cum laude comedy, but it's at least as much fun as a good kegger."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Yes, it is morally bankrupt and completely politically incorrect. But what can I say, I laughed."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow "A raunchy and raucous, if decidedly inane, fantasy of college glory days revisited."   Nitrate Online   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "Fortunately, there is a level of genuine humour here that keeps us laughing between the stupid stuff."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "Blue, who is supposed to be about 90 years old, is one of the funnier characters in the movie, and that says a lot."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "Normally you go to a gross-out comedy to get some cheap laughs. You'll find them here, but Old School really does have something to say."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 1.5/5 "You could film the cast of this movie in a LIBRARY for 90 minutes and I guarantee it'd be funnier than what's on display here."   Movie Insider   Scott Weinberg C+ "To call the haphazard string of gags a story is to give it far too much credit, but it is funny in a blunt, profane frat boy way..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker B- "Combines the ferocious adolescence of “Animal House” with the unpredictable humor of early Adam Sandler comedies."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell 4/10 "Enroll at your own risk."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Susan Granger 1.5/4 "As diaries of arrested development go, It at least has the wit to tell a story of thirtysomethings seeking to recapture the halcyon days of binge-drinking and the joys of sexual objectification."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 51% Rotten Page   1