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This is another raunchy teen comedy and I gotta tell ya, it’s pretty awesome. COLLEGE is like a mix between Superbad and Animal House but with ten times more profanity and the sex humor is ten times more obscene. This is not the type of movie that would have a emotional conscientious moments. It’s straight up… raging hormone, one prank after another and recklessness to the very core. If you’re a party man like some of us are then you’d find COLLEGE to be a laugh riot, a fiesta of adult proportion that will definitely give you the buzz.

Kevin, Morris, and Carter are not looking forward to their graduation, let alone the weekend college visit they have planned but when they hear from a friend who claimed to have had the time of his life during college visit, they decide to take the chance. There they meet cute girls who don’t know they’re still high school. Meanwhile, they also have to deal with a bunch of frat boys who aim to play games at their expense.

I kid you not the three kids you see in the picture above remind you a lot of the three kids from Superbad. Drake Bell is like Micahel Cera, the fatso Andrew Caldwell is like Jonah Hill and Kevin Covais is like Christopher Mintz-Plasse. And just like Mintz-Plasse, COLLEGE is Kevin Covais’ fist movie gig.
You remember Kevin Covais, right? He was a contestant on TV’s American Idol not too long ago. He was the kid that every body thought looked like the animated character Chicken Little.
Drake Bell has finally grown up from being that Nickelodeon kid into somebody who’s not ashamed to cuss up a storm.

American Pie and Superbad both deal with trying to figure out how to spend your last moments in high school, get laid and go out in a blaze of glory. Well, this is similar but instead of getting stuck in high school setting, the three kids decide to go for a weekend college visit.
So they get to meet frat houses, people way older than they are, and girls way hotter and wilder than the ones they know back in their high school.

I’m not sure what actor turned screenwriter Dan Callahan is trying to emphasize by creating the story other than showing the audiences that maybe life is more fun in college, and that it doesn’t stop just in high school, that you need to lighten up sometimes and not be so uptight, that you don’t have to be devastated getting dumped by the people you know now because you’ll know more new and cooler people once you hit college, but he presents all that in a way that’s raw and uncensored.

Some of the jokes can be awfully stupid and not funny. Andrew Caldwell’s character, for example, is a bit too much. Andrew Caldwell ends up creating something that… I’ll put it this way, if Jack Black and Chris Farley had a bastard child, it would be Andrew Caldwell in this movie.

I gotta hand it to the three kids though, they’re not ashamed to take risks. Some of the things they have to do, especially going through the process of the initiation to get accepted into the fraternity,… are brutal and downright disgusting.
Their revenge on the a-holes that have been giving them a hard time since day one, is a stuff of genius.

Overall, I don’t think this is a Superbad rip-off. Maybe to a certain extent, but Superbad is all about friendship, when this..this is all about plain old having fun. Some of the characters in this movie got laid

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