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Before National Lampoon's Animal House, no one ever had the guts to make an honest movie about college life. From Good News to Love Story, from Campus Confidential to The Paper Chase, Hollywood has chosen to regard the campus as a haven for earnest young lovers, gung-ho jocks, inspirational professors and tortured class losers. Animal House, a riotous farce set at fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals-the inhabitants of Faber's most disreputable fraternity house-are a filthy, outrageous lot. They guzzle and spit beer...
...revues, a radio show. Better still, the Lampoon has nurtured a new generation of comic talent. Many of the creators of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including Michael O'Donoghue, the Chief Writer, are Lampoon alumni. That show's Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray first hit the big time in Lampoon revues...
...price of Volkswagen Rabbits has climbed 12.6%, and Japanese Toyotas are up 13% this year. Rising prices for imports likewise give domestic manufacturers an excuse to raise their own prices. This in turn sends more money pouring abroad, depressing the dollar's value on foreign money markets. Says Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Sykes Wilford: "If people look down the road a year and see U.S. inflation at 10%, they're going to get out of dollars...
...would not call it an auspicious motion picture debut. Just twice in the course of this infinite movie-a comedy-mystery into which someone forgot to put the comedy-does Chevy Chase get to do his famous impersonation of a klutz. One time he knocks over some glassware while attempting to project a suave image for Goldie Hawn; another time he falls off a gangplank into a river just after warning Hawn that it is slippery. At no other point is he given anything even remotely funny to say or do. It is hard to remember when a talented comic...
...gives a lift to an undercover cop. As the conventions of this sort of movie demand, Hawn has a hard time getting anyone to believe that 1) she is in danger and 2) something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action than he does in inventing original comic situations. The most he can manage is some vulgar shock effects and a few Hitchcock ripoffs...