For one reason or another I only became a huge fan of Animal House about 5 years ago. I never quite caught onto the hype of it all when I saw it for the first time about 17 years ago. I am going to be 31 in a few months and have seen both movies...let me put it this way...Will Ferrell is hilarious and so is the movie.
But nothing...and I mean nothing that has come out in the last 10 years can compare to Animal House...and yes that goes for the American Pie trilogy which is funny as hell too. There is just something about the dialouge in AH that is timeless and movies like that and Blazing Saddles could never be made today because of the PC police in this nation.
"Daniel Simpson Day HAS NO GPA!"
Double Secret Probation!
Have you ever read The Night of the Seven Fires? It's a short story that appeared in National Lampoon magazine (in '74, I believe) that is a "prequel" to the movie. Hilarious and repulsive, all rolled up together.
The only thing that can even remotely compete with "Animal House" is "Tommy Boy" in the last 10 years. However, "Old School is a hilarious" movie.