Going Greek (2001)

A modern day version of Animal House with all the funny antics of the Greek Fraternity and Sorority life on a college campus. Lots of laughs. The story goes well and is fun to watch. The film is well put together for a first time director Justin Zackham. The cast of characters work well together.

Let's get this straight up front: "Going Greek" does not deviate from the college-sex-party genre first established by "Animal House." Nor does it rise about fare like "Old School" or "American Pie." However, without the benefit of marquee names, "Going Greek" unearths a gem that is seldom found in most of the dredge released these days by National Lampoon: comedy. "Going Greek" is genuinely funny, with a fantastic no-name cast and terrific story to boot. If anything, the film is more akin to "PCU," another cult college film made way before Jeremy Piven joined an "Entourage" and John Favreau launched "Zathura." And who knows? Maybe wider audiences will someday know the names Dylan Bruno and Dublin James.Check it out.

Had the more of the actors been under 29 and not over 30. It's fun if you're bored with nothing else to do, but Jake Taylor and Paige 1) Had no chemistry 2) She should've apologized to him...eehf. That and Jake Taylor was one of the nastiest actors I've ever laid eyes on. He didn't speak up, was not flamboyant enough to appear like he had a brain. He was very mechanical and not camera friendly at all- the whole thing of him caring about Gil wasn't pulled off because of his detachment. I loved the Gil and Sully characters- in fact, the movie had a lot of potentially good actors. I suppose if you're a 15 year old boy this movie kicks a lot of butt.

The t-comm department here at Ball State has a series of "professionals in residence". Usually boring, they surprised us with a screening and Q&A with a hollywood filmmaker.Never heard of the guy or the movie before the show, but figured it had to be better than the usual talking corpses we get.Just to clarify my background, I'm an Aussie transfer student enjoying a year out here in corn country. I've enjoyed one or two fraternity parties, and maybe one or two sorority sisters, but never really went in for all the greek hardcore lot.This number didn't change my mind, but it definitely gave me a few ideas to take back to Oz next year.All's I can say is that this movie is flat out hysterical. The characters all had a sense of realism that you never find in American comedies anymore... Where are you Albert Brooks???...Anyway, I really enjoyed the film and the director and one of the actors (BSU alum Corey Person) stayed after for a really funny Q&A session in which they talked about the trials and tribulations of getting a movie made.All in all, a really well worthwhile film.