At first, it's all smiles and harmony,
as the frat brothers, led by Teddy (Zach Efron) and his second in command Pete (Dave Franco), are taken by their child and their weed - based peace offering during their first meeting.
Zac Efron comes into his own
as a frat boy determined to make Seth Rogan's life a misery, writes Guy Lodge
The supporting cast includes Ike Barinholtz as Mac's and Kelly's buddy, along with Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Mintz - Plasse and Craig Roberts
as the frat boys.
Efron's Teddy is still on the journey of growing up,
as his frat brothers have all progressed onto larger ambitions while Teddy bemoans having to wear a shirt to the menial job he still holds at Abercrombie and Fitch.
It's simply irritating to see
him as a frat brother at this point and still doing Superbad stuff.
The film builds to a giant confrontation
as the frat tries to top every other party that has been thrown.
Efron is very effective
as frat lifer Teddy, whose shirtless - ness really becomes an in - joke in itself.
Even a couple of drunkards dressed as Santa Claus resist easy stereotyping: When Ethan dismisses
them as frat boys, they angrily supply their actual, grown - up professions.
Efron stars
as the frat guy who makes the family's life a living nightmare.
That picked - over sub-genre known
as the frat hazing drama (see 2016's «Goat») finds a new pledge in «Burning Sands,» but aside from being set at a black college, this achingly earnest first feature by Gerard McMurray really adds nothing new to the rites - of - passage syllabus.
Oprah has this, and Dr. Oz aptly described
it as a frat party in her thyroid.
Not exact matches
I would have loved to know to bring «fratkets»
as in random sweatshirts to wear out when going to bars or
frat parties so you don't ruin your nice ones.
It was probably right around the time someone coined the term «brogrammer» to describe the kind of keyboard jockey who «breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a
frat - boy,»
as Urban Dictionary puts it.
«
As the funny guy, the funny
frat bro, any time I try out for that role, I get it.
In the 1980s and»90s,
as asset management became a dominant branch of the economy, the sector earned a reputation
as a particularly
frat - house - like branch of the corporate boys» club.
(Not so) Fun fact: In 2010, years after Immelt's time at Dartmouth and
as president, the
frat house burned down «due to a chimney issue,» according to the fraternity's blog.
As I said last year, Uber has at times seemed like a company run by irresponsible
frat boys.
Kalanick's at times
frat - like behavior over the company's eight - year history has come into focus in the past months,
as Uber battles a public relations disaster that has led some customers to delete the app.
The company's
frat - like work environment was in evidence both during a 2014 outing in South Korea when Kalanick and other executives went to a karaoke bar that allowed male guests to select paid «hostesses» by number — leading to an HR complaint by one one female manager in the group —
as well
as at a Las Vegas retreat in 2015 where one male employee groped a fellow employee and another brought a prostitute to his room.
The three - year - old incident surfaces
as Uber is struggling to address a
frat - boy culture
as described in detail by former engineer Susan Fowler.
Older
frat men receive childlike compassion, teaching, and parental care away from home, while younger on average gang boys receive shame, charges
as adults, and prisons away from home.
Basically, BYX
frat kicked someone out when he came out
as being gay, which is frankly just not ok.
In what must surely rank
as one of the most squalid seduction scenes in literature, Charlotte's Spartan self - confidence is overcome by a combination of alcohol, a handsome
frat boy's flattery, and her own ambivalent yearnings to be noticed and envied.
Your posts never fail to bring tears to my eyes, and they give me so much hope
as a young college student hoping that there is love beyond the sweaty, alcohol - fueled
frat parties and hook - ups.
Say, something that packs the tartness of a BLL with a more pleasant grapefruit flavor, something that drinks
as easier in a park than anything you ever chugged in a
frat house's backyard.
You spent, what, one semester
as a Freshman not in a
frat?
Molinari, with a pitching wedge from 135 yards, gave the lubed - up
frat boys, whose job it is to imbibe adult beverages
as they hang over the grandstands and heckle the players at the notorious 16th, just what they came to see.
Plus, I think part of its appeal lies in the gap between Perry's portrayal
as the Next Great Thing a couple of months back, the inevitable Front Runner, and the fact that in this clip he looks like a drunk
frat boy delivering a bad toast at his buddy's wedding («Can I tell you how much I love this guy?
And Rump is about
as even keeled
as a drunken
frat boy on a unicycle.
As the agency's special prosecutor, she was one of its highest - ranking officials, and after months of feeling that the agency's acting director had created a «
frat - house culture,» including having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, she confronted him.
The members of our esteemed legislative bodies have for years used their time away from home
as nothing more than an excuse to act like they live in college
frat houses.
Inflammation is like trying to clean up the house while a
frat party is in progress: we use functional medicine
as a tool to suss out the causes of inflammation and then reverse them.
If I'm going to live across the street from a
frat house and basically be in college, I might
as well procrastinate...
The story follows «a former
frat boy» and «a free - spirited woman»
as...
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It was a shocking revelation to those of us who'd known a rowdy, raunchy
frat boy in Dating
as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.
McConaughney plays the role of dashing adventurer Dirk Pitt
as if he were a party - hardy
frat boy who ventured out into the real world after all campus kegs were tapped dry.
After all this is a silly
frat house /
frat pack type flick which you could easily see Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell or Ben Stiller starring in
as either the straight guy or the crazy guy.
The storyline follows buddies Erik (John White), Bobby (Nic Nac), and Cooze (Jake Siegel)
as they attempt to pledge the Beta House fraternity, with off - the - wall hijinks predictably ensuing
as a rival
frat challenges the Betas to a series of Greek games.
Described by one prominent critic
as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb
frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider
as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.
Director Andrew Waller and screenwriter Erik Lindsay constantly (and consistently) aim Beta House squarely at the lowest common denominator,
as the film possesses plenty of lewd elements designed to appeal to precisely the sort of drunken
frat boys it exclusively portrays.
But it is Mr. Cooper who offers the most interesting variation on an old standard, playing his aggressive, cocky
frat boy with a snarl of rage that masks an anxiety
as hard to account for
as it is to miss.
Todd Phillips, the director of «Old School,» «Road Trip» and an HBO documentary called «
Frat House»
as well
as a writer of «Borat,» has shown himself to be an adept and tireless connoisseur of male boorishness and stupidity, though the crude humor he dispenses is frequently leavened by nuggets of inventiveness and wit.
Zany mediation antics, an impromptu makeover in a
frat house bathroom, a creepily introverted roommate, a strangely smitten hunk, and frequent partying break up the monotony of dwelling on the virtually absent realism of infidelity and financial strains,
as every situation can be laughed off with the same ease in which McCarthy can fall into bouts of giggles.
Here was Beatrix Potter's delightful 19th century creation
as an obnoxious, James Corden - voiced lout who abuses songbirds, scatters lettuce leaves like dollar bills and holds a raucous
frat party in Mr McGregor's house involving — get ready to primp your petticoats — twerking!
Raunchy
frat comedies are
as hard to pull off
as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and «The Hangover» does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility.
It's rare for a mainstream Hollywood comedy to emerge now which hasn't got
Frat Pack fingerprints all over it - although the group evolved through such esoteric, critically lauded hits
as The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, and Rushmore.
And it looks like the Razzies can't quite let Twilight go,
as Taylor Lautner «s «
Frat Boy Andy (uncredited)» earned Grown Ups 2 one of its nine nominations.
And that was a movie with some household name actors (who were about to become a full - fledged cinema movement
as the so - called
Frat Pack), not just a bunch of young faces you might recognize from high school movies like Clueless and American Pie.
As Mac and Kelly tried to manipulate their way into breaking up the
frat and getting them out of the neighborhood, they started to lose themselves, and almost compromised their relationship.