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National Lampoon's Animal House with John Belushi
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: National Lampoon's Animal House with John Belushi
One of the most popular movie comedies of all time is also the film that made food fights an art tortu and John Belushi a star This raunchy, screwball comedy directed with madcap zest by John Landis offers a relentless spoof of 1960"s college life by following hilarious adventures of the rowdy Delta fraternity. There's nothing this motley collection of students won't do to get the best of Dean Wormer (John Vernon) who secretly conspires to revoke the toga partying Delta% charter.
In addition to John Belushi as the guitar bashing, beer can smashing, garbage eating Bluto Blutarsky, the outstanding cast includes head skirt-chaser Tim Matheson, innocent eshmen Thomas Hulce and Stephen "Flounder" Fur* the comedy Karen Allen, Donald Sutherland as the hip pot-smoking English professor and Otis Day and the Knights with their show-stopping performance ot "Shout." Produced by the team of Matty Simmons and Ivan Reitman, National Lampoon's Animal House is one of the funniest and most outrageous comedies in movie history. Toga! Toga' Toga!
DVD Movie Rating for: National Lampoon's Animal House
Rating for National Lampoon's Animal House : 5 out of 5 stars
Movie Plot of: National Lampoon's Animal House
Unable to gain acceptance at the snootier fraternities they pledge, the Deltas, a a motley crew of misfits and sociopaths bent on disrupting the well-starched status quo, engage in various illegalities that land them in hot water with both the stern college dean and the neighboring jock fraternity. Their exploits eventually cause them to be placed on "double-secret probation," until finally, they are kicked out of school and, as the dean reminds them, newly eligible for the Vietnam draft
DVD Production Details of: National Lampoon's Animal House
Starring: John Belushi, Karen Allen
Director: John Landis
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Black & White
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: February 24, 1998
Run Time: 109
National Lampoon's Animal House Laserdisc Edition
Laserdisc information for National Lampoon's Animal House: MCA Home Video 16007, 1 Hour 49 Mins, Extended Play, CLV, CX Encoded; NTSC
Cast of the movie: National Lampoon's Animal House
- John Belushi .... John 'Bluto' Blutarsky
- Tim Matheson .... Eric 'Otter' Stratton
- John Vernon .... Dean Vernon Wormer
- Verna Bloom .... Marion Wormer
- Tom Hulce .... Larry 'Pinto' Kroger (as Thomas Hulce)
- Cesare Danova .... Mayor Carmine DePasto
- Peter Riegert .... Donald 'Boon' Schoenstein
- Mary Louise Weller .... Mandy Pepperidge
- Stephen Furst .... Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman
- James Daughton .... Greg Marmalard
- Bruce McGill .... Daniel Simpson 'D-Day' Day
- Mark Metcalf .... Doug Neidermeyer
- DeWayne Jessie .... Otis Day
- Karen Allen .... Katy
- James Widdoes .... Robert Hoover
- Martha Smith .... Barbara 'Babs' Jansen
- Sarah Holcomb .... Clorette DePasto
- Lisa Baur .... Shelly
- Kevin Bacon .... Chip Diller
- Donald Sutherland .... Prof. Dave Jennings
- Douglas Kenney .... Stork
- Chris Miller .... Hardbar (as Christian Miller)
- Bruce Bonnheim .... B.B.
- Joshua Daniel .... Mothball
- Sunny Johnson .... Otter's Co-Ed
- Stacy Grooman .... Sissy
- Stephen Bishop .... Charming guy with guitar
- Eliza Roberts .... Brunella (as Eliza Garrett)
- Aseneth Jurgenson .... Beth
- Katherine Denning .... Noreen
- Raymone Robinson .... Mean dude
- Robert Elliott .... Meaner dude
- Reginald Farmer .... Meanest dude (as Reginald H. Farmer)
- Jebidiah R. Dumas .... Gigantic dude
- Priscilla Lauris .... Dean's secretary
- Rick Eby .... Omega
- John Freeman .... Man on Street
- Sean McCartin .... Lucky Boy
- Helen Vick .... Sorority Girl
- Rick Greenough .... Mongol
- Judith Belushi-Pisano .... Bluto's Dance Partner at Toga Party
- Robert Cray .... Bandmember, Otis Day and the Knights
- Fred Simonds .... Grim, balding professor
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Reviews of the movie: National Lampoon's Animal House
A groundbreaking screwball caper, 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House was in its own way a rite of passage for Hollywood. Set in 1962 at Faber College, it follows the riotous carryings-on of the Delta Fraternity, into which are initiated freshmen Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst. Among the established house members are Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert and the late John Belushi as Bluto, a belching, lecherous, Jack Daniels guzzling maniac. A debauched house of pranksters (culminating in the famous Deathmobile sequence), Delta stands as a fun alternative to the more strait-laced, crew-cut, unpleasantly repressive norm personified by Omega House. As cowriter the late Doug Kenney puts it, "better to be an animal than a vegetable".
Animal House is deliberately set in the pre-JFK assassination, pre-Vietnam era, something not made much of here, but which would have been implicitly understood by its American audience. The film was an enormous success, a rude, liberating catharsis for the latter-day frathousers who watched it. However, decades on, a lot of the humour seems broad, predictable, boorish, oafishly sexist and less witty than Airplane!, made two years later in the same anarchic spirit. Indeed, although it launched the Hollywood careers of several of its players and makers, including Kevin Bacon, director John Landis, Harold Ramis and Tom Hulce, who went on to do fine things, it might well have been inadvertently responsible for the infantilisation of much subsequent Hollywood comedy. Still, there's an undeniable energy that gusts throughout the film and Belushi, whether eating garbage or trying to reinvoke the spirit of America "After the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour" is a joy.
On the DVD: Animal House comes to disc in a good transfer, presented in 1.85:1. The main extra is a featurette in which director John Landis, writer Chris Miller and some of the actors talk about the making of the movie. Interestingly, 23 years on, most of those interviewed look better than they did back in 1978, especially Stephen "Flounder" Furst. --David Stubbs
