PCU | | Cast : | Jeremy Piven, Chris Young | | Director : | Hart Bochner | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | April 29, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | September 02, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | "A Bridge Too Far! Caine and Hackman in the Same Movie!" | Content
 | A little of Jeremy goes a long way, but I know plenty of people love him, and now that he has attained mass popularity playing the agent in ENTOURAGE on HBO, his new fans who are looking back for earlier traces of his brilliance should come here first. This is the movie that should have catapulted him into stardom, and on the DVD track a sulky, offhand Jeremy Piven reveals some of the frustration he must have felt when as it happened, the movie died a terrible death during its very first weekend at the box office and nearly ended the careers of all concerned.
Piven is always complaining about poor Hart Bochner and how he felt stifled by Bochner's conservative direction and his insistence on sticking to the script. You'd think Jeremy was some kind of Robert Altman/John Cassavetes veteran the way he swears by improvising your lines even when you've got a really good script. Of course he had a very good bit in Altman's THE PLAYER. Directors are drawn to his ability to play a selfish, self-absorbed heel. On the DVD commentary he comes across as supremely bored with everything, including his own performance.
Everyone who hates being PC will find their egos massaged by this light-hearted, and really very conservative movie which is really only for college students and those who remember being on the odds with the PC culture while they were in college. If you didn't go to college you won't find it half as funny as those who have. Add a point if you're drunk or high. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | Cult Classic to say the least! | Content
| For those of you who say that the acting isn't great, or the plot is weak, you take movies way too seriously. PCU recreates every aspect of college life. When you enter college, you will find that you will watch more movies then ever, and you will end up quoting them. PCU will give you more memorable quotes than any other movie.
Just remember, "One little hit from the binger, could brighten up your day!" |
| Rating | | | Date | June 04, 2005 | | Summary | Addicted to this film! | Content
| First of all: GEORGE CLINTON. He is da MAN! This is a movie I keep watching over and over. It never gets old. Maybe because I was in college in 1994. Anyways, I love this movie. It's funny. It's harmless. It's irreverant. It exagerates the college experience but it pokes fun at the things we all thought are wierd about college. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 20, 2005 | | Summary | Everybody Gets Laiid! | Content
| Class, nothing before eleven. Beer, it's your best friend and you drink a lot of it. Girls, your a freshman so thats pretty much out of the question. These are just some of the guidlines that star Jermey Piven, or Droz, lines out for this hilairous 90's cult classic PCU.
The story is based around Chris Young who plays a pre-frosh visting Westchester college to see if he wants to go there. He finds himself engulfed in a student body that is overrun with hypocrtical political agendas and student protests. Jermey Piven unexpectedly becomes his tour guide as they fall into various adventures including throwing meat at a vegan protest, trashing a bmw, getting evicted from their house, and having Geroge Clinton play for an all campus party. David Spade plays the preppy overachever that becomes Piven's nemesis as he attempts to get him kicked out of school.
Any fan of a college movie that doesn't involve any brian power to watch will certrainly love the laughs that PCU gives. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2004 | | Summary | Good Rainy Day Fun | Content
| This film is another one of those great 90's comedy classics. It has something in it, maybe the memorable cast and the eccentric storyline, that just has everyone wanting to watch it again and again and again. It's like 'Dazed and Confused', just no Richard Linklater. But anyway, this film is a classic and a much better college classic than say, Van Wilder...although I do enjoy that, as well.
Pivitz and Favreu are a great working team. It's only a surprise Favreu doesn't use him a lot in his films, because here, they work. Although Favreu isn't the main character, he still takes the scene always. Need I mention David Spade, in his ego driven, highly right wing, conservative college student role? The characters are memorable to say the least.
The story is simple. Lame kid come to college. College crazy. Kid see crazy. Kid conquer crazy. Lame kid equal cool kid. It's simple, but the side stories, the soundtrack(funk and rock), and the time period where politically correct was bound for a long road...all just flow well.
PCU isn't a classic comedy. It's a classic cult comedy and because of that, it receives special treatment. I just wonder why most cult comedies receivesuch minimal DVD treatment, although this fairs better than Wayne's World, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison.
I'd buy it and for that price, you can't beat it. It's usually 10 bucks too. |
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