Shawn's College Review

2008 Movie #109 - College

I really like Jack Black. I find him funny almost all the time and personally love anything related to Tenacious D. I will watch just about anything the man does and if not enjoy it, enjoy him in it. Overall I'm mostly glad the man exists. What the hell does any of this have to do with College? Well because the existence of Jack Black unfortunatly goes hand in hand with the existance of something dreadful...the poor man's Jack Black.

I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. The role made for a Jack Black type character, but not filled by the man himself. Instead we get some piss poor imposter who clearly has been given the instructions "do it like Jack Black would do it". College has one of the worst examples of this I have ever seen.

When the fuck is this character going to stop?! He was never funny to begin with but we can't fucking get away from them now. He says things that are supposed to be hilarious (usually involving meeting a girl and screaming "LET'S SEE THOSE TITTIES" or something fucking ridiculous like that, in fact no most of the time it's exactly that) and we just roll our eyes and hope somehow the movie takes a bizarre twist that involves him getting a spike rammed into his chest. How does this character even have friends? How on earth are people able to stand being with this guy? In fact how does he even survive in life. His parents and everyone around him should have just abandoned him in a field by this point.

I can say without a doubt that this character in this movie is one of the worst things I've dealt with in a movie this year, and I've put up with some pretty inexcusable shit this year. It makes it that much worse that the movie seems to think we should really care about this guy and tries to get us to root for him. Frankly I felt not enough bad things could possibly happen to him during the movie's running time. Granted none of the other characters around him are much better but they don't even come close to comparing to this pile of shit.

It would maybe maybe help if they had this character in a funny movie, but nope we can't even get that lucky. The movie is not funny at all, I believe I smiled once. Also what the hell is with Verne Troyer showing up as himself in movies lately? You can add this one to the ever growing pile of why even bother movies.

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