College 2008

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can. Read more

Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Not only would I not see this movie, I wouldn't see any movie playing in the same multiplex. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Insulting audiences with College and Disaster Movie on the same weekend threatens to split the lucrative, undiscriminating dumb-ass demographic. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Things never get better than the movie's poster, which features a kid with his head in a toilet. Incidentally, that image doubles, concisely, as apt film criticism. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia. Read more

Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: In the battle for the hearts, minds and fat wallets of North American teens, College fights dirtier and sinks lower than most gross-out screen comedies. Read more

Glenn Gamboa, Newsday: College tries to be a throwback to the teens-gone-wild films of the '80s, but now that teens can find far racier and far funnier fare than this on the Internet, these brainless movies have become obsolete. Read more

Laura Kern, New York Times: Pity today's teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A raunchy comedy that plays like a Superbad without the smarts, the heart, the originality or the laughs. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: If college were really like this, everyone would drop out and found Microsoft. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: Hardly superbad, but sorta OK. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is covering something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity. Read more