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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumStarts out silly, gets sillier by the minute, and frequently had me and most of the people around me in stitches.
- 75Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisIt's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time.
- 70The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyIt’s party time, and the movie is wild and crude without being mean--it’s a comedy of infantile regression, “Animal House” for grownups. [17 March 2003, p. 154]
- 70Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisThe disconnect between what men say and what they do makes Old School funnier than most of its gags and it also invests the movie with curious pathos.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliOld School is exactly what director Todd Phillips intends for it to be: low-brow, moronic to a fault, and occasionally side-splittingly funny.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis year's kinder, gentler "Animal House."
- 60Film ThreatRick KisonakFilm ThreatRick KisonakA good laugh is almost never a bad thing and almost every frame of Old School is grade A goofball fun.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardA deliberately stupid movie whose crazy charm wins you over in the end.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie has been slapped together by director Todd Phillips, who careens from scene to scene without it occurring to him that humor benefits from characterization, context and continuity. Otherwise, all you have is a lot of people acting goofy.