Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update (2003 Video) User Reviews

A half funny mockumetary

[GenFX · 5/10 · 23 January 2004]

This is the bonus material in the 2003 rerelease of Aminal House on DVD (Double scret probation edition). It is a mockumentary that basically catches up with the various characters sometime later (80's or 90's).

The math is a little funny as the characters would be a whole lot older then the actors who portrayed them. So the visuals were off as basically no effort was made to make the actors look older.

That peeve aside, Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update just was not funny enough to watch more then once out of curiousity. There are some vaguely amusing bits, but it has a feel of something just thrown together for bonus material on a DVD rather then anything done to be seriosuly funny.

If you know who thought this was a sound idea, please slap them for me

[TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews · 5/10 · 29 October 2011]

Years after the events of Animal House, this shows us the fates of the people in it. With the film itself being essentially pointless other than saluting meaningless, destructive, crude, obnoxious, noisy behavior and partying, this is an utterly unnecessary addition that just further highlights how much it did not need to be made, and almost has you wondering why the original movie was, too. I didn't care for or about a single one of these characters(and they remain nasty and unappealing in this) in the flick(I could just barely tell them apart), and this is nothing but expanding on the "what happened to" freeze frame throwaway gag near the end... why was this mockumentary made? It features clips from it, and is notable only in their managing to track down all these actors. There's a Woody Allen impersonation in this(intentional or otherwise), and the material is just plain weird. There's something about pregnant women's urine, my brain blacked out. Nearly all of the jokes are unfunny, at best, they're silly. Well, the born-again Christian stuff with Bacon made me smile. This is 21 and a half minutes sans credits, and about 23 with. There are mature themes and language in this. I recommend this to people who must watch anything connected to the '78 piece. 5/10

What a fitting mockumentary...

[corrupt08 · 28 January 2004]

Upon recieving the "Double Secret Probation" DVD version of Animal House, I immediately sat and laughed at the original movie. However, the "Where Are They Now?" mockumentary was stunningly perfect as a tribute to the original Deltas. In fact, if you're a fan of Animal House, you may have to pick this up for the sheer principle of it.

Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update is a funny enough mockumentary of the characters of Animal House

[tavm · 9/10 · 1 July 2010]

Just watched this extra on the HD DVD of Animal House. In this short, director John Landis interviews the people of his "documentary" of Faber College students and staff and some others associated with them like the former wife of Dean Wormer (Verna Bloom) who is now a regular barfly in Chicago, Ill. (My birthtown as well as Landis') About Vernon Wormer himself (John Vernon), he seems to have ended up in a retirement home and has amnesia...then Landis mentions Delta and he suddenly blows up mentioning Blutarsky, Stratton, etc! As revealed in the texts at the end of Animal House, Babs (Martha Smith) is indeed a Universal Studios tour guide as we see her mention various tables used in many classic movies and thanks to President Reagan, they'll never be used to serve food again! We find Boon (Peter Riegert) is now a production staffer who is once again married to Katy (Karen Allen) after having been divorced from her several times and they now have a kid. There are others but I'll just stop there and just say I found the whole thing pretty hilarious especially when we hear the voice of Chip (Kevin Bacon) when he mentions visiting Africa and they show a still from The Air Up There! And how about what happened to Mandy and Bluto after that last scene in the movie? Or Otter (Tim Matheson) himself? Okay, so besides the late John Belushi, Mary Louise Weller and Tom Hulce also didn't participate not to mention the latter's character (Pinto) isn't even talked about. Still, enough of the surviving cast made it in this short that I'd recommend Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update to anyone curious about the way these now-legendary players of a now-classic comedy have fared all these years later. P.S. I wish Katy had talked about whether she did anything useful during all those times after college during and in-between her marriages to Boon...

Fun Featurette

[Michael_Elliott · 5 April 2012]

Where Are They Now? The Delta Alumni Update (2003)

*** (out of 4)

This mockumentary from John Landis doesn't work as good as one would hope but there are enough fun moments to make fans of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE want to check it out. What we basically get is Landis going around to various members of Faber College as he interviews about what they've been doing since they left college. Peter Riegert, Karen Allen, Verna Bloom, John Vernon, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Otis Day, Martha Smith, Chris Miller, James Widdoes, Kevin Bacon and Bruce McGill all appear here playing the characters that they did in the movie. They're all interviewed and discuss what they've been doing the past few decades and what they ended up becoming. This 23-minute featurette isn't the greatest thing ever made and some of the jokes miss but there's no denying that it's pretty special getting to see everyone gathered back to discuss the film. Some are better than others when it comes to fitting back into their original roles but the bit with Vernon is hilarious as is the stuff with Riegert and Allen. With there already being a couple documentaries about the making of the actual film, this here was a clever way to get the update on the characters and fans of the film will certainly want to check it out.