Life as a student in a small liberal arts college can get mighty strange. Believe me, I know. For the 1962 denizens of Faber College, childhood is in the past, adult responsibilities are in the future, and authority exists only to be mocked. "Animal House" hilariously skewers campus life and societal attitudes in the pre-Vietnam 1960's. I've watched it so many times I've begun to wonder about minutiae like the Tennessee state flag in the background of the "trial" scene. I've also read the book and learned the real reason one of the characters is nicknamed "Pinto." (It's not the reason John Belushi gives in the movie.) But I've stopped looking for deep meanings behind details like the girls wearing copies of the pink outfit Jackie Kennedy wore in Dallas, and now, whenever I have a chance to see this one again, I just rock along with Otis Day and the Knights and have a great time.
Review of National Lampoon's Animal House
