So many great scenes. So many great lines. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Payback has never been so sweet.

Does it have flaws? Yes! Does it bring back memories of the good old days? Did it establish a genre (for better or for worse?) Yes!

this movie is the classoc college movie. i remember going to see it when i was a kid and going to school the next day and telling everyone about the movie i got to go see. it was funny and crazy and john belushi was great.

Released in 1980 and directed by John Landis, National Lampoon's Animal House has become the standard college film against which all sophomorish comedies are measured. There is no real plot, as the film simply takes us through the madcap adventures of the Delta Fraternity House at Faber College in 1962. The Delta's are essentially a group of slack professional students, drunks, and general underachievers, namely John Bluto Blutarsky (John Belushi), Eric Otter Stratton (Tim Matheson), et al. Unfortunately, Dean Vernon Wormer (John Vernon) is not a fan of the Deltas, places the fraternity on double secret probation, and entices the rival, straight-laced Omegas to help him get Delta's charter revoked. This movie breathed new life into the fraternity concept, not to mention food fights and toga parties. While many critics and comments concentrate on John Belushi's performance, this film was successful largely due to Tim Matheson's portrayal of the smooth, ladies' man Otter and the use of music from the early 1960's. The bottom line is that National Lampoon's Animal House is great comedy for its non-cerebral humor and remains a common viewing experience for a generation.

The greatest college movie of all time, and probably the only film that National Lampoon's got right. There are so many classic scenes and memorable characters. Actually, each character is pretty memorable. It also doesn't make college seem like something you could just slide through. The partyers generally don't pass their classes on charm alone in real life, and neither do they in this film. Some favorite scenes: the dead horse in the Dean's office, the cafeteria scene, and anything else involving Bluto - especially his motivational speech near the end Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!! Even though college was nothing like this for me, it is still funny in a familiar kind of way. Recommended to everyone.

As far as I'm concerned this is the funniest movie of its type, and in the right mood is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. A great set of performances, largely by second, third, and eighteenth tier stars.