10 Most Underrated Comedy Films Of The 90s

10. PCU

It's understandable that the idea of Jeremy Piven actually being funny might give you a migraine. But there was a very brief period of time in the early 90s when Piven and his incredible receding hairline could actually hold down a role that required considerable amounts of charm.

PCU is something of a spiritual predecessor to the "big man on campus" comedies of the 2000s like Van Wilder, with Piven acting as the slacker extraordinaire who always manages to skate through life and, naturally, get everything he wants out of life despite overwhelming odds being stacked against him.

Actually, it shares a great many beats with Old School, a film which Piven would not-so-coincidentally play a polar opposite role in. The biggest difference is that PCU is unapologetically offensive and relishes its own flaws. It's more concerned with landing the joke than it is providing any real, groundbreaking ideas about society and, for that, it deserves a freakin' medal.

Because too many pseudo-intellectual comedies of the 90s had a tendency to force an agenda down the audience's throat while neglecting that whole humor thing for large chunks of time. PCU decides early on that it'd rather make of the people who take their "causes" very seriously without actually understanding it beyond a cutesy slogan.