| | | All the fun of college. None of the education.
Features: DVD, Rated R, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Spanish, French, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
What's a guy supposed to do when he catches the early flight home and finds his girlfriend in a bed with a roomful of strangers? Return to college and start a fraternity! Before you can say "wild and wet wrestling", Frank "The Tank" (Will Ferrell, Saturday Night Live); Mitch (Luke Wilson, Legally Blonde) and Beanie (Vince Vaughn, Swingers) have their own frat raging with out-of-control antics. But when things get too wild, the dean sets out to shut them down. The laughs are top of the class (even if they guys aren't)! In the hit comedy from director Todd Phillips (Road Trip).
"...when Ferrell is onscreen...you won't stop laughing." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"One hundred percent deplorable taste is absolutely guaranteed in this frat-boy comedy. " Peter Bradshaw, Guardian/Observer
"...uproariously funny..." Manohla Dargis, L.A. Times
Editor's Note
In Todd Phillips' OLD SCHOOL, Mitch (Luke Wilson), a thirtysomething businessman, has found himself living a boring, mundane lifestyle. Unfortunately for him, his girlfriend, Heidi (Juliette Lewis), has been getting more adventurous on her own, by throwing wild sex parties while he's away. When Mitch catches her in the act, he moves out and takes up residence in a house close to the local university. This prompts his buddies--the newly married Frank (Will Ferrell) and Beanie (Vince Vaughn), a jaded husband, father, and stereo-store tycoon--to throw Mitch a huge party in honor of his renewed single status. Antics at the party lead to the formation of a makeshift fraternity where age and academics don't matter, and Mitch is the reluctant "godfather." But when the university's scheming dean (Jeremy Piven) catches wind of the new fraternity, he becomes determined to stop their fun. Will the boys overcome the dean's sinister plans? Will Mitch find love again? Will Frank please stop running around naked? And, hey, isn't that the cute girl who plays Jack Bauer's daughter on the TV series 24? These questions--and many more--are answered in the giddily fun and unabashedly immature OLD SCHOOL.
| Features | Full Screen Presentation | | Commentary From The Stars And Director | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, DTS 5.1; French Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French | | Beanie's True Colors | | Welcome To Old School--Now Get Undressed | | Nominations And Awards-So Did We Win Anything? | | Inside The Actors Studio Spoof | | Outrageous Deleted Scenes Including: Meet Frank's "Soul Mate"-She's A Doll | | Peek Inside The Locker Room |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Old School - DVD Review By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/5/2008 4:33 PM | |
Some film ads make promises they can’t keep, totally misrepresenting the final product. But the ads for Old School give you a good idea of what you’re in for: an old man wrestling with topless coeds in KY Jelly, Will Ferrell in a cougar mascot outfit jumping directly into a hoop of fire, and Vince Vaughn doing an iron cross on rings with a lit cigarette clenched in his lips. Need more?...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Dreamworks (Universal) |
| Release Date: 2/14/2006 |
| Running Time: 90 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 90561 | | UPC: 00678149056129 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2003) | | | Will Ferrell, Nominee, Best Comedic Performance | | | Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Nominee, Best On-Screen Team |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Mr. Ferrell uses his hilarious, anxious zealotry to sell the part..." 02/21/2003 p.E13USA Today
"...Luke Wilson is affably low-key..." 02/21/2003 p.14D Entertainment Weekly
"...Under Reitman's direction, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness..." 02/28/2003 p.59 Variety
"...Lively....The reliably funny Farrell's periodic party-monster outbursts amuse..." 02/17/2003 p.39-44 Box Office
"...What's funny are the myriad bits and gags and show-stoppers....[An] expertly timed comedy..." 05/01/2003 p.62 Los Angeles Times
"...Wilson has ineffable charm and Ferrell natural comic timing..." 02/21/2003 p.C1 Sight and Sound
"...OLD SCHOOL works best when it combines its belly laughs with a disarming pathos, deriving from its characters' well-sketched sense of confusion over what they want from life..." 07/01/2003 p.54 Film Comment
"...Consistently funny, good hearted..." 07/01/2003 p.77 Total Film
"...Great concept..." 12/01/2003 p.115 Ultimate DVD
"[A] very likeable role swap comedy, with Wilson, Ferrell and Vaughn forming a winning triumvirate as they fire off tautly crafted gags with plenty of belly laughs." 04/01/2008 p.69 Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn clock in at an average age of 34, which is a little old to be a frat boy. It is not their age but their longevity, however, that I question. In Old School, where they occupy a series of off-campus party houses, they follow lifestyles more appropriate for the college students in "Flatliners." Anyone struck in the jugular by an animal-disabling tranquilizer dart and then rolling into a swimming pool is not likely to have to face the kinds of questions about retirement confronting the hero of About Schmidt. - Roger Ebert
James Berardinelli's ReelViews 7 of 10
Old School is exactly what director Todd Phillips intends for it to be: low-brow, moronic to a fault, and occasionally side-splittingly funny. I laughed aloud seven or eight times during this film, and smiled or chuckled on a few additional occasions. Admittedly, considering the bawdy, brainless nature of the humor, there were times when I was almost embarrassed to be laughing, but that didn't stop me. In an era when a viewer is lucky to find one or two humorous moments during the course of a 90-minute so-called "comedy," Old School delivers with surprising effectiveness. - James Berardinelli
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