Synopsis
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
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Cast
- Jeremy PivenDroz
- Chris YoungTom Lawrence
- David SpadeRand McPherson
- Megan WardKaty
- Sarah TriggerSamantha
- Jon FavreauGutter
- Alex DésertMullaney
- Gale MayronCecilia
- Viveka DavisWomynist #1
- Jake BuseyMersh
Recommendations
- 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
A hare-paced, harebrained and, for the most part, amusing update of "Animal House." [29 Apr 1994, p.03] - 63
USA Today
PCU is less a blatant ripoff of Animal House than a fond homage. This '90s update on campus life never reaches that landmark comedy's inspired heights (or depths, as it were) of anarchy. It also could use a waggle or two of John Belushi's bushily subversive eyebrows....But actor Hart Bochner's directing debut - aided by zippy camerawork - still offers a laugh-propelled good time while tweaking political correctness gone amok at Port Chester University (PCU). [29 Apr 1994, p.5D] - 60
Variety
Political correctness is such a natural target for satire, it’s surprising that it has taken so long to hit the bigscreen. At the same time, given the issue’s extensive media coverage, it wouldn’t have been too much to expect PCU to cut with a sharper and nastier edge. - 60
Chicago Reader
Good, amusing, disreputable fun—until it starts getting solemn and preachy. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is afraid to be - yes - Politically Incorrect. It isn't really critical of anybody's behavior, and it sketches its campus fringe groups in broad, defanged generalizations. Beneath its facade of contemporary politics, it's another formula film in which the kids want to party and get drunk, and the adults are fuddy-duddies. - 50
The Seattle Times
As funny as this movie sometimes is, it could've been much funnier, ironically enough, if it had taken itself more seriously. [29 Apr 1994, p.D34] - 40
Los Angeles Times
The whole point of this anemic venture is to get down and party, but it comes across as a pale passe carbon of "Animal House" that's not half as much fun. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
A spoof of "political correctness" on campus, PCU is a sanitized rip-off of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE that's neither smart enough to qualify as satire nor offensive enough to entertain.
