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100
Viewer score based on 8 votes.

Critic Score

82
Critics' score based on 7 reviews.
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The movie is vulgar, raunchy, ribald, and occasionally scatological. It is also the funniest comedy since Mel Brooks made "The Producers."Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Steady readers of the National Lampoon may find National Lampoon's Animal House a somewhat soft-pedalled, punches-pulled parody of college campus life circa 1962. However, there's enough bite and bawdiness to provide lots of smiles and several broad guffaws.Full Review

Variety

National Lampoon's Animal House is by no means one long howl, but it's often very funny, with gags that are effective in a dependable, all-purpose way.Full Review

Janet Maslin
The New York Times

Steady readers of the National Lampoon may find National Lampoon's Animal House a somewhat soft-pedalled, punches-pulled parody of college campus life circa 1962. However, there's enough bite and bawdiness to provide lots of smiles and several broad guffaws.Full Review

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Variety

While the low comedy is undeniably effective, the film leaves behind a bad taste of snobbery and petty meanness.Full Review

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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