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Let's get this straight up front: "Going Greek" does not deviate from the college-sex-party genre first established by "Animal House." Nor does it rise above fare like "Old School" or "American Pie." However, without the benefit of marquee names, "Going Greek" unearths a gem that is seldom found in most of the dredge released these days by National Lampoon: comedy. "Going Greek" is genuinely funny, with a fantastic no-name cast and terrific story to boot. If anything, the film is more akin to "PCU," another cult college film made way before Jeremy Piven joined an "Entourage" and John Favreau launched "Zathura." And who knows? Maybe wider audiences will someday know the names Dylan Bruno and Dublin James.
Fairly well written, very well acted, well edited-- the only point this falls down on is the structure of the story as the director delivers it. If the "raunchy segments" had been more timed to the story instead of most of them being interruptions in the story the movie would have flowed better and made a bit more sense. The "frat hazing" was played for a joke, and too much time was spent on it without thinking through some of the consequences of focusing there. Major warning-- do NOT get the "full screen version" of this movie. Too much of it is cut off, so you wind up with something was was to be widescreen standard, not 4:3 safe, and you miss parts of the jokes and set ups. Much better than the run of the mill "frat and naked girls" movies. .
It's great
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