I am one of the few people who wasn’t all that impressed with Old School. Don’t get me wrong, I did mildly like it and thought it was pretty good, but I wasn’t nearly as taken with it as most other people were. I didn’t think Ferrell was at his best in it, and some of the humour was way too predictable.
Now news is coming out that Dreamworks has officially given the green light to “Old School 2” with the same writers and director being signed on. But hold on a second. Before you get too excited, the good folks over at Empire bring up some very good questions:
Now, you might wonder if they can stretch the idea out for another 90 minutes – after all, things in Old School rounded themselves off quite comfortably, but bear in mind that there has been no mention of the cast from the first film returning in any major capacity. So all new characters, with only cameos from Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn (and hopefully Elisha Cuthbert)?
Honestly… what else can you do with this concept that you didn’t already do in the first one. It was already starting to get a little tired by the end of the first one as it is. And if they brought in a new cast, then we’d be looking at nothing but Caddyshack 2 all over again (ug… painful memories).
I just don’t see any upside to doing this movie. The first one was fine… leave it alone. Let Ferrell an co. get on and do other projects that aren’t already beaten to death.
