by Robert Scocchi
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The early days brought us a flood of college party movies like National Lampoon Van Wilder and Old schoolBut I'm here to tell you that you're doing yourself an incredible disservice if you've never watched '90s action Program Coordination UnitIt is the best film in this genre by a wide margin. It offers nothing more than a simple “we need to have an epic party to save our house” plot line. Program Coordination Unit It builds its premise without care for its audience, and has no room for quick jokes due to its tight 79-minute runtime.
Movie like Program Coordination Unit Such a simple premise shouldn't be dismissed as mindless entertainment, because sometimes we all need a quick ride across the plaza while a group of vegan protesters try to run us out of town after we've been assaulted by over 100 people. A pound of raw meat.
Politically correct university
PCU stands for Port Chester University, but it quickly became an abbreviation for Political Correct University according to Jeremy Piven's James “Drews” Andrews. Droz is one of those people you want to have a beer or 12 with, but he's not the type of person you want to have any form of a meaningful relationship with because he's an agent of chaos and a loose cannon who just wants to party his face off. In his seventh year at college, Droz has an ax to grind against all the “issue heads” who latch on to whatever social issue happens to be the flavor of the week, leading to a series of complaints against his group of fellow students. Known as “The Hole”.
When Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits PCU as a new student, he is caught in the middle of a long-running feud between The Pit and their elegantly named rival group, “Balls and Shaft,” led by an insufferable prep named Rand McPherson (David Spade). Although Tom only visits PCU, he quickly makes enemies because he always shows up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and is incredibly accident-prone. Despite his inherent ability to pick everyone apart, especially after the computer lab accidentally crashes while everyone is agonizing over their theses, Droz takes Tom under his wing and shows him what college life is really like.
On the bad side of the university president
The basic conflict in Program Coordination Unit It involves Rand's desire to vandalize The Pit while simultaneously bringing Greek life back to campus. In an earlier timeline, the frat house occupied by The Pit was the residence of Balls and Shaft, but The Pit refuses to leave because it is the headquarters of their party. Working with university president Garcia Thompson (Jessica Walter), Rand compiles all the complaints against The Pit, as well as the damage bill from the previous semester, totaling more than $7,000.
If The Pit cannot pay the bill for damages and answer for their minor crimes, they will be kicked out of the house and expelled from school.
Party your way out of this
As you can imagine, what's left of… Program Coordination Unit The film's events revolve around Druze, a string (Jon Favreau), and Mulaney (Alex Desert) decides to throw the Rage to end all Rage in order to collect the money and pay the damage bill while offending as many people as possible in the process. Meanwhile, Tom inadvertently (and constantly) makes more enemies around campus as the film progresses.
After its initial setup, Program Coordination Unit is a crash course in stealing beer from rival dorms, disrupting campus protests for fun whenever the opportunity arises, and using the Starland Vocal Band as a form of psychological torture if you know how to use a steering wheel lock as a means of detaining your subjects in a stuffy banquet room.
But it's probably the most important piece of advice you can get Program Coordination Unit It is to never, under any circumstances, wear a T-shirt from the band you are going to see.
An unlikely double feature
on its own, Program Coordination Unit is a solid, carefree party film about a group of miscreants who playfully antagonize everyone on campus as their primary form of entertainment. But if you really want to see our hero, Droz, get a taste of his own medicine, I highly recommend watching Program Coordination Unit Before 2003 Old school Treating the latter as a sequel that takes place in an alternative world where Jeremy Piven Dean plays Gordon “Chase” Pritchard, who finds himself on the receiving end of the same kind of chaos.
Unfortunately, this masterpiece of crude comedy is not that My neighbor Anywhere, so you'll have to locate the DVD if you want to see what's there Program Coordination Unit It is everything.
