NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE 1978 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

What kind of animals am I going to see in this house? If there’s a horse, I think I’ll make a song about where it is! Dis Drawma Kingg decided to write this first paragraph before watching National Lampoon’s Animal House. Will it be good? Will it be awful? I am hesitant to review this movie, because my intuition suggests it will be a “supposed” comedy that does not age well. Let’s jump into the movie-viewing rabbit hole and find out the chrooth! 

There totally was a horse! And it was the best character by far! Animal House largely suffers due to the fact that none of the main human characters are likable. They also don’t seem to have any funny lines. The closest I came to laughing was from a few of the visual gags. Perhaps John Landis was trying to make a statement about college life in the 1970s, who could say? I imagined John Belushi would be somewhat funny. Sadly, his character only amounted to someone that was constantly doing weird and/or gross things. Even simplistic entertainment seemed entirely absent from this film.

OK enough about that meaningless movie I’m sure I’ll never watch again. Let’s talk about something positive! This is the first episode since drawmakingg.com became one year old! That’s right, July 5 2026 was the one-year anniversary of my original post to the domain! Now in my second year as a self published writer and website owner, this thing could go anywhere! There could be future episodes with a total of six good jokes! I mean it’s possible, I don’t know if it will happen. Thank you so much to everyone who has read an episode or more of the drawmakingg.com archives! I know you’re wondering if I have gotten any wiser after one year and almost 70 episodes. I still believe I qualify as the man with the lowest IQ in bipedal human history. No need to worry about my works of writing getting any smarter. I’d even give a guarantee, but I don’t charge people money to read my movie reviews or pictureless comic books. So I don’t really see what I would get out of having to guarantee anything.

Is It Worth Watching?: Oh yeah, National Lampoon’s Animal House…no, I do not think it is worth watching at all. 

Final Thoughts: 1/10 Crowns. I would probably give National Lampoon’s Animal House a fraction of a point (or maybe zero points) if it were not for the fact that Dis Drawma Kingg’s highly official Crown Rating System does not go below 1 point. 1 out of 10 is almost like saying zero on this scale though, so it all works out. Did people actually like this movie when it came out? I have seen plenty of movies from the 70s and earlier. There definitely were a lot of excellent films that already came out by this era. It’s not like society didn’t have anything good to compare to. Well anyway, I’m being a little more negative than I usually try to be. I just honestly didn’t like this movie at all. Although I go on plenty of tangents and make up non-sequitur stories in many episodes of this soap opera called Drawma Kingg, I am always honest about the number I give the Crown Rating and my actual opinion of each movie I review. I would not lie about those things, because I wish to maintain my integrity (assuming I have some) as a movie critic! Stay tuned for the next episode where I’ll probably be reviewing some random cinematic adaptation of a book (such as The Odyssey or Mother, I Finally Have The Mathematical Skills To Count The Number Of Legs I Possess) in an overly dramatic fashion!