Variety
There's enough bite and bawdiness to provide lots of smiles and several broad guffaws.
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National Lampoon's Animal House
The comedy hit of 1978 and the big screen debut of Saturday Night Live comedian John Belushi. The raucous, beer swilling members of the Delta House university fraternity take on Dean Wormer (John Vernon), after he puts them all on probation and plots to expel them. A spinoff from magazine National Lampoon, Animal House is credited as launching the gross-out comedy genre.
1978Rating: M, Low level coarse language, low level sex scenes, drug use109 minsUSA
Comedy
- Director:
- John Landis ('The Blues Brothers', 'An American Werewolf in London', '¡Three Amigos!')
- Writer:
- Harold RamisDouglas KenneyChris Miller
- Cast:
- John BelushiTom HulceStephen FurstMark MetcalfMary Louise WellerMartha SmithJames DaughtonKevin BaconKaren AllenJohn VernonDonald SutherlandVerna Bloom
National Lampoon's Animal House / Reviews
Time Out
An unashamed sense of its own fantasy is coupled with classically mounted slapstick; nostalgia mixes with cynicism in seductive proportions.
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The New York Times
By no means one long howl, but it's often very funny, with gags that are effective in a dependable, all-purpose way.
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Roger Ebert
The movie is vulgar, raunchy, ribald, and occasionally scatological. It is also the funniest comedy since Mel Brooks made The Producers.
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