I have seen this movie so many times now I've lost count. This kind of film makes me wanna open up my own frat in the UK (sucks that we don't have them in the UK). I recently watched Frat Star, another Frat movie from the Gravitas Ventures company, and I'm happy to say they've been perfecting their frat movies.
The film focuses around three friends, Charlie, Billy and "Douche" who, before even spending one day as new fraternity members, cause their fraternity Alpha Xi Gamma to be closed down due to an accidental fire at the celebration. A few years later, through a loophole in the system, they are able to re-instate their fraternity as long as they can find twelve new pledges before the end of Rush Week, all the while fighting back against their ancient rival fraternity, Kappa Nu. Now yes, if you've seen this film, it does have toilet humour, it does have some cheap gags, and there are still scenes in this movie I skip when I watch it.
This movie also has the typical liar reveal in it, and it annoyed me the first time I saw it, but as I kept watching it again, it blended into the plot and I don't mind it anymore. I grew to care about the characters and I want to see them succeed. A lot of the side character will also make you laugh. It's also nice having Tom Green as the Dean of the university, 'Dean Kravitz'. The second Alpha Xi party we get later on is one of the best college parties I've seen in both a Frat movie, and a college movie.
The one BIG negative of the movie is definitely around two thirds through when the main character Charlie gets drugged and raped in order for Kappa Nu to bring down the fraternity again; not defensible at all and this needs to stop in comedy movies, and asking for that needs to stop being viewed as some "buzzkill" type thing by these 'comedy geniuses'. Joking about it is one thing; portraying it onscreen is another.
Overall, If you want a film that sets itself apart from a typical frat movie, this one will definitely stay in your head for a while. I'm giving it a 6 out of 10.
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