The best college comedy of all time is off

According to Robert Scucci
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Early kids brought us a flood of college party movies National Lampoon’s Van Wilder and Old schoolbut I’m here to tell you that you’re doing yourself an incredible disservice if you’ve never seen 1994 pcwhich is by a considerable margin the best film in the genre. It offers nothing more than a simple “we have to throw an epic party to save our house” storyline. pc it establishes its premise without condescending to its audience, and with a short 79-minute running time, it has no room for witty quips.

Like a movie pc that boasts such a simple premise, however, shouldn’t be dismissed as mindless entertainment, because sometimes we all just need a quick ATV romp while a bunch of vegan protesters try to run us out of town after being attacked by over 100 people. kilo of raw meat.

A politically correct university

PCU stands for Port Chester University but is fast becoming Politically Correct University according to James “Droz” Andrews Jeremy Piven. Droz is one of those guys you’d love to have a beer or 12 with, but he’s not the type of person you want to have any kind of meaningful relationship with because he’s an agent of chaos and a loose cannon who just wants to get his face off. In his seventh year of college, Droz has an ax to grind against all the “hotheads” who prey on whatever social issue happens to be the flavor of the week, leading to a litany of complaints about his group of classmates. known as “The Pit”.

When Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits PCU as an appetizer, he finds himself caught in the middle of a years-long feud between The Pit and their elegantly named rival group, “Balls and Shaft,” led by an insufferable preppie named Rand McPherson (David Spade). Although Tom only attends PCU, he quickly makes enemies as he always shows up at the wrong place at the wrong time and is incredibly accident prone. Despite his innate ability to tick everyone off, especially after he accidentally falls into the computer lab while everyone is struggling with their theses, Droz takes Tom under his wing and shows him what college life is really like.

On the wrong side of the university president

The primary conflict in pc involves Rand’s desire to sabotage The Pit while bringing Greek life back to campus. In a previous timeline, the frat house occupied by The Pit used to be the residence of Balls and Shaft, but The Pit refuses to leave because it is their party headquarters. Working with university president Garcia-Thompson (Jessica Walter), Rand compiles all the complaints about The Pit, as well as a damage bill from the previous semester totaling over $7,000.

If The Pit can’t pay the damage bill and answer for their petty crimes, they will be kicked out of the house and expelled from school.

Party to get out of it

As you can imagine, the rest pc revolves around Droz, Gutter (Jon Favreau) and Mullaney (Alex Desert), who decide to throw the rager to end all ragers to raise funds and foot the damage bill while offending as many people as humanly possible. Meanwhile, Tom inadvertently (and constantly) makes more enemies across campus as the film progresses.

After its initial setup, pc is a crash course in stealing beer from rival dorms, disrupting campus protests for fun whenever you get the chance, and using the Starland Vocal Band as a form of psychological torture if you know how to use the steering wheel lock as a means of imprisoning your subjects in a stuffy banquet room.

But perhaps the most important piece of advice you can get pc is never under any circumstances to wear a band shirt that you see.

An unlikely double feature

by itself pc is a solid, light-hearted party movie about a group of villains who playfully antagonize everyone on campus as their primary form of entertainment. But if you really want to see our hero Droz get a taste of his own medicine, I highly recommend watching pc before 2003 Old school and treat the latter as a sequel set in an alternate universe where Jeremy Piven plays Dean Gordon “Cheese” Pritchard, who finds himself on the receiving end of exactly the same kind of mayhem.

Alas, this masterpiece of silly comedy is not streaming anywhere, so you’ll have to find the DVD if you want to see what pc is all about.

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