Old School: Critic Reviews

83%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

60%

RottenTomatoes: 167 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Under Reitman's deanship, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

40

[School's] like a half-empty glass of Coke that's been sitting out for a couple of days; sure, it looks like cola, but one sip tells you exactly what's missing.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

It's pretty crass and broad, but there are bigger wastes of time around than this.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

Unlike most of the lowbrow comedies in theaters these days, this one isn't quite a carp.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

This movie's enough to give you a big fat Greek dreading.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

An extremely funny and, of course, socially unredeemable comedy.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Until it gives up on itself in the last 10 minutes, Old School, co-written by Scot Armstrong and director Todd Phillips, knows how to rock a party with naughtiness and intelligence.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ed Park Village Voice (Top Critic)

A flatland of lowest-common- denominated retro-collegiate wackiness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

34

Most mirth is as feeble and pointless as the plot, from the thin shock value of inappropriate cursing to a routine array of hedonistic hijinks.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

59

While not remotely original in content, Old School tries hard to have something for everyone and succeeds more often than not.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ricardo Baca Denver Post (Top Critic)

88

This School is cool.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

This is not a funny movie, although it has a few good scenes and some nice work by Ferrell as an apparently compulsive nudist.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

The movie is never more than the sum of its scattershot jokes.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

38

Old School has all the ingredients of an uproarious campus comedy, but it lacks a boisterous short-order cook who could whip up a food fight or three.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Sloppily made, frustratingly inconsistent, purposely lowbrow, blatantly derivative and never once enlightening in even the slightest way, Old School is also undeniably howl-out-loud funny at times.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

As funny as it is dumb, and that's saying something.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Dennis Harvey Variety (Top Critic)

This year's kinder, gentler Animal House.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Megan Lehmann New York Post (Top Critic)

63

Old School scores points for its refreshing lack of cheap gross-out humor.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

There's no school like this Old School, and this one earns high marks for hilarity.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Old hat.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

This frat romp might be dumb, but you'll wet your Dockers anyway.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

In an era when a viewer is lucky to find one or two humorous moments during the course of a 90-minute so-called 'comedy,' Old School delivers with surprising effectiveness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The cast's a kick.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

50

Only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen -- then you won't stop laughing.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

It's no Animal House, but Old School is helped by a curious pathos for its thirtysomething boys.
Full Review » 9 years ago