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National Lampoon's Animal House is a movie about the rivalry between two fraternities at Faber College, the uptight-ultra-conservative Omegas and the drunken brothers of Delta house. The chaos starts from the very beginning of the movie but does not kick off in full force until the head of the college, Dean Wormer, decides to shut down the Deltas. When he finally is able to close down the Delta fraternity, they do the only logical thing. …

…at the University of Oregon, which very much lends to the overall feel of the film. It puts you right there in college. In short, Animal House is like one long frat party that you're invited to. Pitting the two factions of college life against one another was a perfect premise for a nice, mindless flick that really was funny, even if it wasn't an all-out perfect film. It is a classic in any case.