Animal House (1978) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review 

This one one of the most hilarious movies that I have ever watched. Still funny after watching some scenes dozens and dozens of times. A true masterpiece of comedy.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." I feel attacked

John Belushi's character...creepy, psychotic...bad human being. You know, a Senator. NAILED IT!

“I would rather watch The Room twice before seeing this movie again” Emily you’re TEARING ME APART

LOL Emily reacted exactly like all the parents of teenagers who made this movie a huge success.

I can’t believe you skipped a reaction to one of the greatest quotes in movie history….. “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” “Germans?” “Forget it hes on a roll”

"Talk about a warm welcome"?!? Matthew had that one waiting in the wings. He planned that. Magnificent.

"I'm guessing there are no heroes in this movie." Bluto is the hero! We all know it. lol.

Emily loved Airplane. Yet there was a pedafile pilot, a mob beating a passenger with weapons, a flight attendant giving head, a couple a suicides. I'm not understanding how Animal House gets a thumbs down from Emily. The humor is exactly the same.

There wouldn't have been raunchy comedies if it hadn't been for Animal House. It CREATED the genre in 1978.

"Creepy Freddie Mercury..." So glad I wasn't drinking anything at that moment...I nearly lost it!!!! LOL!!

The first stirrings of doubt about PORKY'S have begun. ANSWERS: The movie takes place in 1962-63, and was based on the experiences of Doug Kinney, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd, etc. during their years at college. By 1978, they were too old to play fictional versions of themselves so they had to hire actors to do it. D-Day, for instance, was based on Dan Akroyd. Since it's a period piece, it's problematic content is based on destructive resistance to genuinely oppressive conservatism of pre-Civil Rights America, which would've been seen as heroic in post-Vietnam America. Flounder probably hopes he scores because his girlfriend likely doesn't put out. It's 1963, 10 years before Roe v. Wade, the pill is much harder to get, and the Sexual Revolution has not happened yet. So he and his girlfriend are probably not even doing heavy petting because there is a MASSIVE stigma about women being sexual period, let alone outside of wedlock. College would've been seen to some degree as a way to "get away" with stuff without prying eyes watching but mentally, not everybody was eager to take advantage of that. The statutory rape thing would've been thought of as funny at the time because it was a farcical misunderstanding, with Otter ending up in a horrific situation by accident. Otter was deliberately misled by an underage girl and since he was unaware, he would've been seen as a victim of a younger person who got the better of him and not as a creepy predator involved with an ignorant child. That reversal would've been seen as ridiculous, and therefore, funny. Granted, that's not how it *actually is,* but that's how it would've been seen by the audience. Every decade has it's ANIMAL HOUSE: REVENGE OF THE NERDS ('80s) PCU ('90s) NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER ('00s) I'm not sure what the '10s one is, if there is at all. PCU is the one from my generation and the least problematic one since the 90s was really big on the PG-13 rating getting teen butts in seats. If Emily doesn't like ANIMAL HOUSE and REVENGE OF THE NERDS, she'll probably like PCU for it's complete lack of sex comedy and more emphasis on social commentary. "I would rather watch HOWARD THE DUCK and THE ROOM twice than watch this again." - Emily "Just for that, I'm going to save up, join Patreon, and pay $500 to demand FREDDY GOT FINGERED" - Me

Emily: Lists off all the laws broken in the movie. Me: Slow down there, Killjoy McGee.

There's a really great documentary done by A&E Biography called Animal House: The Inside Story that might help you understand were they where coming from when making this film. Its kinda lengthy but really good.

I saw this movie on its opening weekend with a group of friends when I was a senior in high school. It was definitely a rebellious finger in the eye of the proper establishment of that day. It was one of the most hilarious things we'd ever seen. 40+ years later we still reference it when we get together. You'd have to have lived through those days to really get it, otherwise it's nearly impossible to see it for what it was.

You shouldn’t feel like you need to apologize for your opinion. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I much prefer you be honest about it, than be fake like some other reactors I’ve seen. Keep being you.

All the wild behaviors in the movie, you're taking as anti-social. When the movie was released, these behaviors were taken as anti-establishment by the audience. Delta house ARE the heroes as they don't care about class nor race, they just care about having a good time (with anybody). Omega house (as part of the establishment) is totally about class and race.

The fact that a LOT of the movie is incompatible with today's general society kinda means that it shouldn't be overlooked. It's definitely a movie of its time and that it is all meant to be an exaggeration of things. Part of the appeal of the movie is in how ridiculous it is. Oh and... ROBOT HOUSE!!!!!!

Its truly sad that people are unable to laugh at things the way that we used to as a society, but thats "progress". As raunchy as it is, its a comedy and its meant to be taken lightly. A truly great movie. The review? Not so much. Thanks for watching it though.

I am so shocked that Emily didn’t love this movie. I’m not bummed out because I still love the movie. I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Furst, Flounder, several years ago and he was such a nice guy. He didn’t seem too different from his character in his happiness.

How can anyone not like a movie where they chant "Toga...Toga....Toga"

The actor that portrayed Clorette DePasto the 13year old cashier/party girl in Animal house, is Sarah Holcomb and Sarah Holcomb was 20 years old during filming. That she convincing played a girl so young it creeps people out, is a credit to her acting ability. (Her brother is David Holcomb 'The Protector')

A movie made back when we could laugh at almost everything, not take it so seriously and just enjoy watching it. Not ok today, but certain things are funny anyway. My wife who doesn't have much a crude sense of humor liked this movie more than me, even back then.

Watching his reaction when she said “ I hope they don’t hurt that pony” made my day.

These guys aren’t role models but I found it funny.

Emily very quickly became a middle age, conservative housewife while watching this movie.

The awkward moment when Matt realizes Emily doesn’t like the movie.

Saw it on TV ages ago, finally saw the uncut version years after, still freaking hilarious to me. John Belushi was naturally funny, shame we lost him so young. He was also great in 1941, another hilarious movie, though he wasn't the lead in it, nor in it all that much.

Yes, everything about National Lampoon was darkly and outrageously satirical. There is a very funny Netflix movie about the real-life founders of National Lampoon magazine called “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” starring Will Forte, that is absolutely worth watching.

One Of John Landis Masterpieces

It's okay to forgive Belushi for being a Peeping tom when he wiggles the eyebrows

This movie does not hold up well in todays Me Too world. But, I still think it's one of the funniest fucking movies ever made.

I think that this is one of history's greatest comedies about irresponsible people, losers, freaks, and villains. I have always loved it. I have the DVD.

A running theme throughout a lot of these types of movies is "snobs versus slobs". Being a "slob" was shorthand for the underclass/underdog, and therefore, the protagonist. Being a "snob" was shorthand for elitist/powerful, and therefore, the antagonist. Caddyshack is another example of the "snobs versus slobs" and you can make the argument it was done better in that movie than Animal House. Even though I grew up watching it and liking it, I totally understand Emily's point of view. It is definitely a movie that has some problematic bits.

11:02..."You better not hurt that pony" and then there's that look from Matthew 😉

Just a few extras -- James Widdoes (Delta house president) is up for an Emmy this year for directing, Mark Metcalf (Neidermeyer) was The Master on Buffy and the father in the We're Not Gonna Take It Twisted Sister video. The actor lifting the table at the club -- his wife worked at the local unemployment center and she got a slew of unemployed people to act as extras for the parade scene.

Oh gosh golly! She’s going to hate Revenge Of The Nerds, but Porky’s might go well.

The movie being wildly inappropriate is what makes it funny for me. Well that and it being a movie, ya know, fiction. Same way I (we) can cheer the "good guy" dispatching the bad guy while if that happened in front of our faces in real life we'd have a much different, visceral reaction.

It was actually tea that John Belushi drank when it looked like he downed a bottle of Jack.

It's a satire and should be taken as such.

This is the movie that changed comedy forever and boy, was everyone trying to copy it during the early 80s.

I'm a 53 year old woman and love this movie. Lighten up a little.

I'm 62 and this movie is still funny as hell! These two people must have no sense of humor.

Think of it this way. Films depict horrible acts by people all the time, for various reasons. Depiction is not endorsement. And I don't think anyone involved believes that people should act in the ways depicted here. If you don't find something funny, that's fine. It's your opinion. But humor, being subjective, can be derived from anything. Rape isn't funny. But Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd can be. Just because the protagonists are bad people, doesn't mean the filmmakers are. Just something to keep in mind. Now, if a filmmaker is a bad person and inserts their bad ideas into a film...well, that's a story for a Jeepers Creepers time.

Beautiful movie. Brings a tear to my eye every time.

If she thinks this is problematic, just wait until she sees Revenge of the Nerds

Her face at the "I'm only 13"...total meme/gif. 2.2? Higher than my GPA....just kidding! The thing that just kills me about movies like this is we are now so far removed from the time and context of the film originally. This, SNL, and Blues Brothers made Belushi a legend. His success is what prompted Akroyd to write Ghostbusters. Venkman was written for Belushi, and Bill Murray only agreed to play the role as an homage to John after his untimely death.

"Is this just pot?" Remember that this movie takes place in the early 60s, when pot was "the Devil's weed" and possession could land you in prison for up to a couple of decades.

This film is the "mother" of the "Collage living's comedy". It was raw, but also kind of realistic.

You pick an extra and you hit one of my classmates from HS or college. The gal with the curls at the Dexter Lake club I worked theatre with in community college the year before the movie was made. They filmed the movie in Eugene OR the year after I dropped out of Oregon to enlist in the army. Now to really creep you out, the college class of 1978 was often only a couple of steps removed from those actions. OH and one of the reasons I left school was I was in a frat and it went off the rails.

Fawn Liebowitz was a 20-year-old sophomore at Emily Dickinson College, in nearby Wounded Deer, Massachusetts. A sociology major from Fort Wayne, Indiana, she was tragically killed in a kiln explosion, while firing a pot in the new kiln in Sylvia Plath Hall on campus. This is a funny line !

You missed the “Ask For Babs” bit after the end credits.

I love this movie. You have to read the National Lampoon magazines to find out how Pinto got his nickname Nobody ever notices that it's Faber College, and the school sports teams are the Mongols. Just like the pencils.

Idk for me it still holds up 10/10 people just have to remember this is a college spoof movie so everything is over the top

Animal House is to college as Spinal Tap is to music. There are bits that a lot of people familiar with fraternities can relate to.

It would be interesting to see your reactions to Porky's, directed by A Christmas Story's Bob Clark.

I'm a 70's child and this movie was just epic.

I first saw this movie first run in the theater in 1978 when I was 20. I saw it with my best friend who was 19 and my dad who was 62. We all loved it.

Emily slammed the door on this film the minute the horse died, after that her opinion was set in stone and would not change. I know Emily is not an uptight or inflexible person but she didn't give this classic a chance. The first infraction left no room in her to see otherwise. I pray you guys do not watch The Bad News Bear because I feel Emily will kill it because she will take a farce as reality.

I can't say your opinion is wrong but a lot of this is like not liking The Simpsons because of the child abuse with Homer strangling Bart. But I do understand that it could be troubling thinking the filmmakers could possibly condone some of the behavior. You don't know what they thought is acceptable and what is just for shock.

Millennials. Can't appreciate some of the classics

5:37 if you love John Landis so much you should watch his TWILIGHT ZONE outtakes...you’ll lose your head

This movie is the source material for EVERYTHING claiming to be bad taste that came after. Suprised you let so much of this be offensive, seeings as this type of humour is clearly tongue in cheek and how people used this kind of laugh out loud humour back in the day. Glad i lived through the times this was made personally as im a firm believer in banter and taking the piss out of others and having the piss taken out of myself.

Still laugh whenever I see this movie, or someone quotes a line from the movie.

I'm surprised you didn't like it... I might be a tiny bit older than you, I'm mid 40s, and I love this movie. I don't know if that's just a culture thing, me being from England, and North England at that, and you being not from England. We're both females, so that's not what's different. And it can't be the comedy because it's a US movie and US humour. But hey, every person is different. Everyone of us likes a multitude of different things. The things that make one person laugh might make another person cry. If we all liked the same things then life would be incredibly dull. Just imagine being in a pub where everyone agrees. No debates on Terminator 2 not being great, no lengthy discussions about which is a better movie, Alien vs Aliens? I shudder at the thought of that world. And while everyone has opinions about all matter of things, I will stand up and fight for the right for that person to share their opinions. But your opinions are wrong.... Hehehehe. JK. *winky cheeky face*

"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, NNOOOOOO", Favorite line in the movie

Remember, this is circa 1964, as remembered in 1978. Shama Lama Ding Dong became one great song, but was written strictly as a comedy device.

"He looked like John Mulaney and Justin Long had a baby" may be the best line I've ever heard on a reaction channel. 😁

Don't overthink what they were trying to do with the movie -- it was just farce, with totally unrealistic situations played for laughs. And don't apologize for your opinions -- no one should tell others what they should or should not enjoy -- your reaction is yours and is just as valid as anyone else's. And please, you two keep doing what you're doing -- I enjoy it 😺.

"Overall thou-haha-ghts?". Well executed question Matthew!

The great thing about the show is when you love the movie, it's entertaining. when you cry at the movie it's entertaining and when you hate a movie with all of your heart it's still entertaining to watch. This one was funny as he'll because you can see the moment it went South for you and it Never recovered. counting all Crime say committed was a nice touch on how much you hated this one.

I think this is a great movie…even today.

Emily - from your reaction and comments I think a school-based, somewhat coming of age movie, you would really, really like is "Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield. Take a chance and thank me later :-)

Don’t ever apologize for honesty I completely understand where ur comin from but for me love it thanks for the honest reaction

Holy crap! That professor I just saw is a young Donald Sutherland

I saw Animal House at the East Lansing Movie Theater when I went to MSU. The movie goers that night went crazy with laughter and just made the movie so much better. A big hit

This needs to be paired up with Revenge of the Nerds

And yet she thought Blazing Saddles was hilarious... (which of course it is).

Fun Ironic Fact: The "Thank you God" kid is a religious pastor now.

Yeah, National Lampoon (the magazine) was like that. If you'd like to watch a _somewhat_ similar comedy that isn't _quite_ so nasty (and just came out on Blu), may I recommend _One Crazy Summer?_ It's got John Cusack, Demi Moore and Bobcat Goldthwait! (It _does_ involve certain criminal acts passed off as LOL, but its sympathies generally lie with good people.)

Love this movie. It’s fuckin hilarious.

Fun Fact: if not already mentioned. The ROTC dude, Neidermeyer, with the horse is the dad in the Twisted Sister videos for "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". He even does some lines that are similar to his character's lines in Animal House.

It was considered not only OK but also funny at the time for the male “protagonists” to take what they could get where they could get it- from the exclusive society types, from the school administration, and, yes, from the women. Sticking it to the women does not feel appropriate in retrospect- just as it would not be appropriate now, but sticking it to The Man is oftimes undoubtedly appropriate, then and now (although the methodologies might be suspect).

Animal House 1978 this movie's success lead to the comedies we had in the 1980's and 90's. Airplane, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack and many more of the humor that they had.

That episode of Futurama was also spoofing a very funny movie called Up The Creek, which also starred Tim Matheson and Stephen Furst from Animal House

Faber College is a fictional university, I think it's supposed to be in Tennessee. This movie is very loosely based on Ivan Reitman's experience joining a fraternity.

This movie was a cultural landmark and I'm glad I was alive at the time to understand why and love it. Something about putting humor into a different context than morality.

You took this film WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too seriously. Seriously.

You wrote down crimes they committed in the movie?? Lol. What is wrong with you. You seem like a huge ball of fun. It's a movie. You don't have to like it. Just don't be weird.

So many people talk about John Belushi, few tak about the brilliant Stephen Furst who some of you may know as Vir Kotto from Babylon 5

This is the only reaction video I could find of the Greatest Movie Ever Made. In terms of reaction the lady is missing the point in my opinion. When I went to college in the 80s, for the freshman year at least, this was our inspiration for how to live College Life.

You can have your own opinion, don't worry. Theres nothing I hate more than a reviewer lying just to please their audience. I certainly tell the truth when ayone who loves "Snyder Justice League"tries to tout it as amazing. That its just a piece shit. Like movies like "Blazing Saddles"and the like, films like these are a product of the time. Some of the jokes can be cringy by todays standards. I used to laugh all the way through, but some of the stuff makes me tug my collar going "Ye-hoh-oh....." (Namely the "thirteen years old"scene, Larry/Pinto having to think over whether he should take advantage of the girl and Otter's antics. Still love "Animal House", but I understand that it's a silly frat movie and not something to emulate. 10:28 Me: "TEENYverse." Ironically, the crimes done in this movie are far fewer than those done in "Revenge of the Nerds". Avoid that movie if you don't want to be absolutely furious.

Love y'alls channel over here in Laurel. I do enjoy watching. I was sadden to see you didn't like the movie. I was 17 when it came out and I watched it. I always watched it as a revolt against the man, the establishment, trying to hold us down. But still ❤ the channel.

A comedy classic. I can't even count how many times I've see this movie. I'd take this movie over any of the garbage made today.

I'm starting to get a real sense of "are we the villains?" theme with the movies so far lol.

"Id rather watch Howard the duck and the room twice" Looks like someones deserves to watch Troll 2...

This movie was so iconic when it came out in 1978...People at the time were able to laugh at it and not be critical of the reality-based flaws that you seem to take such issue with....Sad that you couldn't enjoy the film as it was meant to be...

(5:05) "what is that? What is that?" "Shopping cart... " LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Marijuana, at this time, was thought to be the gateway to heroin and/or insanity. The folklore about something that had fewer side effects than beer was the insanity. There's a joke that perfectly explains pot: Three men go to a supermarket at 3:00 in the morning. The supermarket turns out to be closed for the night. One of the men is drunk, one of them is tripping on LSD, and one is stoned on pot. The drunk says, "Let's break down the door." The guy who's tripping says, "Let's float through the keyhole." The guy who's stoned says, "Let's sit here and wait for the store to open in the morning."

Not a movie for the Woke Generation, but a classic just the same.