Old School (2003)
Directed by Todd Phillips
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
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On its surface, “HTTM” is the typical middle aged emasculation comedy, first-cousins with “Old School,” “The Hangover,” etc.
Cusack, who also produced the film, has fun riffing on his sensitive '80s persona while Corddry's Lou is abrasive and crude, the frat brother who never grows up, a la Will Ferrell in "Old School."
Hot Tub Time Machine flirts with being a Wet Hot American Summer-style homage/parody of the ’80s ski sex comedy, but instead chooses the raunchy, lucrative buddy comedy route previously traveled by Old School and The Hangover, right down to the emasculated pal (Robinson) who must stand up to the strong, cheating woman in his life to regain his dignity.
It’s worth noting that a producing credit goes to Todd Phillips (director on such party comedies as “Old School” and the “Hangover” franchise).
Director Todd Phillips is a proud supporter of good-natured anarchy as evidenced by his movies "Old School" and the two "Hangover" films.
Produced by Todd Phillips (director of “The Hangover” and “Old School” ), “Project X” is ineffectively presented as some sort of real, found-footage assembly.
Maybe Phillips (“Old School”) is their Costa, the bottom feeder egging them on in their pursuit of the bottom.
He is, of course, best known as the director of both of the "Hangover" movies, as well as "Old School."
Drinkers and abstainers alike would've expected a giddier potion from director Todd Phillips, whose "Road Trip" and "Old School" are the "Mean Streets" and "GoodFellas" of men-will-be-boys comedies.
Todd Phillips ( Road Trip , Old School ) directed this low-brow but sporadically inspired movie, and it has already earned a reputation as the boundary-pushing comedy movie of the summer, thanks to word of mouth and clever preview trailers.
Helms’ henpecked rage recalls some of the male anxiety on display in Phillips’ much better Old School, but the screenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, etc.) keeps getting in the way of any spontaneity or depth.
Previously behind the camera of comedies like “Starsky & Hutch,” “Road Trip” and “School For Scoundrels,” Todd Phillips appears to be content with his films being instantaneous rather than lasting, his only possible exception being “Old School” which remains greatly enjoyable even after first-time viewings.
While Judd Apatow had nothing to do with The Hangover, (it was smartly directed by Todd Phillips of Old School fame) it is nonetheless his progeny.
The Hangover was directed by Todd Phillips (Old School) from a screenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
Todd Phillips, of Old School and the Hangover trilogy, wrote and directed Joker, during the promotion of which he declared comedy largely dead.
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Why so little of Wendi McLendon-Covey as the family-weary, resentfully-domesticated descendent of Vince Vaughn in “Old School”?
Ladies, prepare to laugh.This riotous R-rated offering from producer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up") and director Paul Feig (creator of TV's "Freaks and Geeks") gives the female of the species the same sort of unapologetic, buddy-based chuckler guys have gotten a dozen times over with films like "Old School" (2003), "Wedding Crashers" (2005) and "The Hangover" (2009).But it isn't fair to pigeonhole the film based on gender, so we'll state it simply: "Bridesmaids" is the best comedy of 2011 so far."Saturday…
– “Joker” director Todd Phillips to Vanity Fair, explaining why he’s turned from comedies such as “The Hangover” and “Old School” to darker, dramatic fare.
Is There A Mid-Credits Scene? Yes, and it’s uncomfortably similar to the final scene of Old School.
While the modern kidulthood film may flirt with the horrors of ageing ( Old School , This Is 40 ), it equates sobriety and dignity with pathetic emasculation.
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But this isn’t a female-empowering version of Old School or Everybody Wants Some (which the sorority premise is closer to), and the sorority gets shortchanged by focusing on Mac and Teddy and underwriting Kelly, which is a baffling decision considering Byrne’s comic abilities and the ability to have a crisis about her adulthood and do another gender swap.
It may reunite “Wedding Crashers” stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, with a setup that mirrors that of “Old School,” the adults-in-college laugh riot that starred Vaughn and Wilson’s brother Luke, but “The Internship” is more of a standard fish-out-of-water comedy, while also owing something of a debt to the snobs vs. slobs comedies of the 1980s.
But the fact that he reprises essentially the same role he’s played since Old School with only that marginal sensitivity as the key difference underscores how disappointingly unwilling he is to challenge himself.
…comedy of the last 30 years, from Animal House to Revenge of the Nerds to Vaughn’s own Old School .
Co-writer and star Vince Vaughn brings us what is basically a remake of his “Old School,” a sort of “Revenge of the Un-Nerds” with a little “Legally Blonde,” and a lot from pretty much every story about a group of assorted losers who show the cool kids how it’s done.
“The Internship” is essentially a rehash of “Old School” only with a tech campus instead of a college one, but, problem: Coding is unlike dumb fraternity stunts — it is neither cinematic nor fakeable.
This isn’t Old School on the Google campus, and Vaughn and Wilson aren’t applying the arrogant Dodgeball edge to a makeshift buddy comedy.