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- 1994
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 19 m
- 1994
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 19 m
Summary A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus in this classic tale of anti-political-correctness.
Directed By: Hart Bochner
Written By: Adam Leff, Zak Penn
- 1994
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 19 m
- 1994
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 19 m
PCU
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Summary A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus in this classic tale of anti-political-correctness.
Directed By: Hart Bochner
Written By: Adam Leff, Zak Penn
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Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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15% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
31% Negative
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4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
42
15% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
31% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
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]
Good, amusing, disreputable fun—until it starts getting solemn and preachy.
It's not much more than a collection of clever sight gags and one-liners that leaves the door wide open for another, better film about political correctness on the quad. [29 Apr 1994, p.D2]
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.
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.
P.C.U. turns out to be a surprisingly lame and unfocused campus comedy, one that pays remarkably little attention to its own comic possibilities.
There's about one TV commercial's worth of funny gags in PCU a poorly executed one-joker about political correctness on campus...But any laughs quickly become redundant and wear thin, and the uselessly involved plot spirals off into absurdity. [29 Apr 1994, p.49]
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