Animal House (1978)

Animal House is about a loser fraternity house much more concerned with having a great time in college rather than actually learning anything. The president of the college is determined to have the fraternity disbanded and their charter revoked. The guys go through recruiting new members from the upcoming class. They have numerous loud and obnoxious parties (the most notable being the Toga party). One of the members actually ends up getting a little frisky with the mayor's underage daughter. They also (mistakenly) kill one of the horses used by the college ROTC, which they led into the president's office and literally scared the animal the death with blank gun shots. In general this movie is a classic funny movie, filled with misunderstanding, and general rowdiness. All the guys in the fraternity are good guys are heart, with their priorities on partying rather than anything serious. This was a funny movie. I'm glad I finally know where "Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!" came from! I liked it!

The Hangover (2009)

The Hangover is super funny! Four best guy friends are out celebrating one of the guy's pending nuptials with a bachelor weekend in Las Vegas. The bride's brother is a few screws loose and he decides is would be a great idea to "spike" their drinks to make the night a bit better. The guys wake up to discover a lion in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, the groom missing and all of them have complete memory loss. They try to desperately reconstruct the evening's events in order to find their missing friend. They apparently have a crazy night consisting of gambling (with a creepy Chinese man as their good luck charm), steeling a lion, one of the guys marrying a prostitute, loosing teeth, etc. etc. They eventually realize that they carried the groom out onto the roof of the hotel while he was sleeping but then forgot he was up there. The poor groom spends about 24 hours on the roof... why he couldn't scream down and try to get someone's attention we don't really understand, apparently he tried to get people's attention by throwing his mattress off the roof. Regardless, they all make it back just in time for the wedding. This is quite funny and surprisingly less slap-happy stupid than you might think. I liked it!

Star Wars Episode 5 (1980)

In episode 5, the resistance against the empire (led by princess Leia) has set up a secret hideout on a remote and icy planet. The empire forces (led by Darth Vader) are trying to stop the resistance (revenge for them destroying the Death Star). The empire invades the resistance's hideout and eventually captures Han Solo, R2D2, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO. Luke Skywalker escapes the initial attack and finds the jedi master Yoda to finish his training a become a Jedi fighter. He aborts his training to go rescue his friends (a trap set by Darth Vader). Skywalker fights against Darth Vader and finds out that Vader didn't kill his father but in fact IS his father! Skywalker and his team manage to escape from Darth Vader's clutches in the end. I liked this movie much better than episode 4. Still pretty corny, but one of my favorite lines was something about how being dead is really hard to live with... classic!

Star Wars Episode 4 (1977)

Episode 4 is about a young man Luke Skywalker who obtains two robots (R2D2 and C-3PO). R2D2 is being pursued by the evil empire and is in pretty bad shape, but has a partial message from the princess Leia that she desperately needs the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Skywalker tries to help R2D2 find Obi-Wan Kenobi in order to save princess Leia. Skywalker learns the basics of becoming a jedi fighter from Obi-Wan and units with Han Solo to save the princess Leia and destroy the evil empire battleship the Deathstar. Well, I thought this movie was creative but pretty silly... the way C-3PO walks is hilarious!! For 30 or so years ago I actually thought the "special effects" weren't too bad. I'm not so sure how I feel about having to watch 5 more Star Wars movies!!

Groundhog Day (1993)

This movie was about a Pittsburgh TV weatherman who was a conceited jerk. He's asked to do a news report on Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog's Day (a task he deemed below him). The day goes really poorly and he gets stuck in Punxsutawney for an extra night because of a terrible snow storm. When he wakes up the "next day", he repeats exactly the events of the day before, a perpetual Groundhog Day. He tries all types of things to escape the endless Groundhog Day, such as killing himself, but nothing works. He eventually turns a new leaf and becomes a generous, conceintious citizen and fallens in love with his TV producer. Only then is he released from the endless Groundhog day. I liked this movie, it was lighthearted and funny. I'd definitely watch it again!