PCU (1994)

IMDb plot summary: A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus.

Directed by Hart Bochner. Starring Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, Megan Ward, and Jon Favreau.

PCU is a comedy about a hard-partying frat house that's come under criticism from the ever-more politically correct student body. The dean gives them an ultimatum: raise enough money to cover the damage they've done to the house, or they'll get kicked out. So they decide to throw a massive party and get all the "woke" students to put their differences aside and join them. So full disclosure, there's no part of me that is going to be won over by a movie whose core message is "social justice is stupid and we'd all get along better if we just didn't care about things so much." It's just such a lazy message that relies on not listening to anybody who's affected by anything being protested against. As such, I find these characters pretty obnoxious in their sense of moral superiority to everyone around them. Raunchy drugs-and-sex-party comedies seldom work for me regardless, but toss in the underlying message and it just became something I hated. It's just so weirdly mean-spirited and none of it lands for me, so I'm happy to let this one just disappear from my radar.

How it entered my Flickchart:

PCU < Sunday in the Park With George

PCU < Our Idiot Brother

PCU < Drive Me Crazy

PCU > Thr3e

PCU < Thor: The Dark World

PCU < The Child

PCU < Watership Down

PCU < Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

PCU < The Beastmaster

PCU > Rescue Me

PCU > Murder a la Mod

PCU < Reefer Madness (1936)

Final spot: #3265 out of 3487, or 6%.