To be honest I am writing this for the (like minded) people who didn't find this movie entertaining. I sat thru this movie for a simple reason. I watched lots of films at that time. I was attending college and drank heavily, this film's key demographic. I found the whole timbre of this movie most disturbing. Most people, although yearning for their own youth, would not wish to play the naive part over again. The lead characters of this movie are strikingly unrealistic in their success despite almost no effort. They all live in nice homes, drive new cars (except for the smoking trans am, the films only good performance) and have stable lives many on this earth could only dream of. Yet we are to believe that this existence is some sort of torture for them because they can't act like drunken buffoons and belong to a fraternity? Have you ever met a women even remotely resembling this movie's stereotypes? It's as though they are trying to justify the poor treatment of them. Much comedy is based on people having the wrong reaction to normal situations. The (clearly misogynistic) writers seem to have purposely eschewed clever in favor of obnoxious. The personas portrayed are really nasty, vindictive sadists terrified of the implications of adulthood. In particular the divorce scene is beyond obtuse. The funeral scene was no picnic either. Best avoided.

The movie is not very original but it fulfills its purpose as a comedy, since one just can't stop laughing through it.It is based on the common fraternity comedies, but with a little twist that the main characters are now in their 30's. The movie doesn't go too much into detail, but it isn't supposed to be believable either.We get a bunch of different kinds of characters who all are funny in their own way. Besides the main characters I really liked to see well known actors playing small parts, such as Simon Helberg, Juliette Lewis and Jeremy Piven.I like how this movie mainly sticks to the comedy and keeps the dramatic, learning moments to a minimum. Just as I love that at the end not all of them decided to "grow up" but Will Ferrel's character keeps on having his fun. I was a bit worried they will make it look as if boring married life is for everybody.

I think it is impossible to not like this classic comedy, jam packed with action and funny jokes from the get go. Of course Will Ferell plays a huge roll in this movie being amazing, when paired with Luke Wilson, who is not cracking jokes and being funny all the time, makes up for a perfect comedy movie. Maybe it could have had more party scenes, since it was a movie about a high school fraternity made by 3 grown men after all, but nonetheless the movie is a great watch if you like Will Ferell and comedies in general. A major upset for me, however, was the fact that Luke Wilson's character didn't actually try to make a move on his bosses daughter, which he previously had hooked up with, that would be a cool part that could have been incorporated into the movie to make it even better.

There are comedies that rely on cleverly placed wit, comedies that rely on characters, raunchy comedies that try to construct a new set up with likable characters, or ones with a familiar set up with likable characters. Then there are ones that simply compile caricatures to aimlessly wander around their screenplay of odds and ends. This is the primary formula for Todd Phillips' Old School.Mitch Martin (Luke Wilson) is a successful attorney, who is perhaps too consumed in his work. This becomes evident to him when he returns home to discover his girlfriend takes part in wild sex orgies. They obviously break up, Mitch is upset, and then goes house-hunting before closing the deal on a house not too far away from Harrison University. His best friends, Frank (Will Ferrell) and Bernard (Vince Vaughn) get the ingenious idea to relive their college days, reelect themselves at the top of the social circuit, and drink, party, and have sex as much as possible. This, of course, becomes crucial to their already well-constructed home-lives, where Frank has just gotten married and Bernard runs a successful chain of electronic stores.While its main characters are adults, Phillips' gives the screenplay of Old School a "frat-boy comedy" injection with frat-boy comedy humor. There's a distinct lack of humanity within the characters, who talk mostly to service the vague plot and not at leisure, and for that matter, they are so dense and unsatisfying one questions whether or not they are the ideal kind you would like to see in a comedy in the first place.Old School is yet another modern-day clone of a more successful seventies comedy that doesn't need to be named. It's the kind of movie that was amazing in its heyday, still relatively holds up today, but has been done so many times by inferior works that some jokes may seems tired and worn. That film is a great work of comedic timing and characters. Old School is just a vague guide on the recipe for a good comedy.Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven, and Elisha Cuthbert. Directed by: Todd Phillips.