College: Critic Reviews

Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.

Pity today's teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.

Things never get better than the movie's poster, which features a kid with his head in a toilet. Incidentally, that image doubles, concisely, as apt film criticism.

Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is covering something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity.

Hardly superbad, but sorta OK.

A raunchy comedy that plays like a Superbad without the smarts, the heart, the originality or the laughs.

In the battle for the hearts, minds and fat wallets of North American teens, College fights dirtier and sinks lower than most gross-out screen comedies.

This low-rent frat house comedy is at once far more vulgar and decidedly less anarchic than its obvious inspiration and should flunk out of theaters before this year's crop of freshman students even finish unpacking their bags.

A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can.

We've done the whole classless college comedy thing before, many times.

A laugh-free, thoroughly unpleasant comedy...

So full of nastiness and cruelty that it's hard to believe anyone would find joy in it.

a male fantasy of what sorority life is really like with a depth of story that would be more at home in a porn film than a major motion picture

The worst gags in "Old School" and "Revenge of the Nerds" are still superior to anything you'll see in College

If you hear someone deriding Superbad for being unoriginal or derivative, sit them in front of College. If they can't tell the difference, they're a lost cause.

I thought it was dreadful from start to finish.

Not only would I not see this movie, I wouldn't see any movie playing in the same multiplex.

Excruciatingly unfunny.

Personally, I wouldn't waste a $5 drink on this one, but I do understand that teen's irritation.

...makes The House Bunny look like The Importance of Being Earnest.

A movie that glorifies binge drinking flunks as a movie

Sadistic with no laughs to be had.

Crude, boorish comedy doesn't make the grade.

With sloppy direction, a half-baked script and no reason to care, College is far from being the Animal House of this generation.