Just seen it for the first time and...

I just watched it for the first time and felt the same way. Not bad on a technical level at all, just the humor didn't work for me. Felt like a "You had to be around back then" type of deal.

Like when he's cramming the food into his mouth obnoxiously. It wasn't funny, and didn't really repulse me either. It was just there, which felt like the whole film. The soundtrack is excellent though, a great advantage over modern films if there ever was one.

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I'd love to see you in the moonlight with your head thrown back and your body on fire.

I'm watching it on IFC right now and I've laughed out loud more times than I can count. I used to think this movie was pretty stupid but it actually seems to have improved with age.

Well, we all know that your opinion is the only one that matters. 

Loved it then and love it now. I'm a little confused as to why you are so dumb.

I think I would have loved it when I was a teenager, or pre-teen, but I just saw it for the 1st time and meh, it didn't strike my funny bone at all. The most fun in the movie was seeing all of the college/university movie tropes being realized for the 1st time! So many college, university and road trip movies are based off of this film (Revenge of the Nerds is nearly a direct copy). It was neat to see the inspiration for them all materialize in Animal House.

Did you watch it at home, alone? Raunchy comedies need to be enjoyed with a big audience, where everyone else laughing at the oh so obvious humor gives you permission to laugh too. I remember going to see Porky's at an afternoon matinee and being the only person in the theater and feeling like it was the lamest movie I've ever seen and having this annoyed feeling that all the laughing that was taking place onscreen (the characters spend half the movie guffawing and howling at their own pathetic pranks) was this movie's way of provoking laughter from the audience. But every person I know who saw it told me that they laughed their heads off and many mentioned seeing people actually sliding out of their seats with laughter in the theater. Maybe if I saw it with a big audience, I wouldn't have found it insulting and idiotic, or I wouldn't have cared, and I would have enjoyed it in spite of myself. I don't like to think this about myself, but I think it's somewhat true of everybody. Laughter is contagious.

The opinions on this flick are all over the board and seem fairly fixed. I guess mine lies somewhere in the middle. I did not see the movie as all that hilarious, but I understood why it was when it was released (yes, I'm that old). I did find some of it truly funny, and overall I enjoyed the originality of it - after all, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and how many college comedies have been made since Animal House?

I would personally prefer it if people could agree to disagree, but in every forum there will be flaming and trolling. I've learned to take it in stride. My concise opinion after only just tonight having seen this movie for the first time? Fun, worth the phenomena it spawned, not the most brilliant thing I've seen, but definitely some inspired moments. And others are welcome to their opinions, too.

"He hates these cans!" -Navin R. Johnson, Entrepeneur, Erstwhile Effete Snob, Genuinely Awesome Jerk

I agree. The film was not particularly funny, it was too long, it was thin on story, there is nothing likable about the characters with the exception of Karen Allen's character. It is just frat boys doing frat things.