Critics considered National Lampoon's Animal House to be cheap, terribly plotted, and in bad taste upon its release in the summer of 1978. Nevertheless, the comedy struck a chord with its public and grossed more than $90 million in its first...

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of fraternity boys take on the system at their college. The movie was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Christopher Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller based on...

Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Animal house She's described as a younger, hipper version of Washington socialite Sally Quinn. Now, New York Times rising reporter - and avid partyer - Jennifer 8. Lee has been slapped with a $60,000...

'Animal House,' minus Bluto and, oh yeah, the laughs By SUE PIERMAN Special to the Journal Sentinel Friday, April 5, 2002 In recent months, Hollywood has taken pains to produce family- friendly movies, resulting in such successes as "Shrek," "Monsters, Inc."...

Sophomore humour appeals, if at all, simply because it is sophomoric; thus, there was no dickering with 'sophistication' in the John Landis team's Animal House. [In An American Werewolf in London], however, the material calls for a much lighter tread, so often has the ground been covered by film-makers in hobnail boots. Landis ends An American Werewolf in London with a title card congratulating the Prince and Princess of Wales on their marriage; and hovering above the preceding action i...

Fraternity-house pranks, which depend on humiliating your rivals and yourself at the same time, may be the lowest of all forms of humor, but they have a necessity that anyone can see: They are probably the only form of rebellion available to square college boys. (Hip kids tend not to join fraternities, i.e., they get laid off campus.) In a few years those boys will be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, but at nineteen they can make outrageously cruel and infantile jokes and no one will give them too hard a time...

[There are many laughs] in the National Lampoon's Animal House: the decor, the uniforms, and many of the attitudes come to us straight from early Presley campus idylls, or even from Rebel Without a Cause, and at least some of the chirpy delinquencies derive from Sergeant Bilko, but the film's animating spirit is blisteringly up to date. More than just a comic fantasy about going back to school to punch some loathed teacher in the mouth, it's essentially a mean-eyed dream of vengeance ag...