Topless KY Jelly wrestling, tranquilizers, beer bongs and streaking are what makes “Old School” something new.

Will Ferrell (Frank), Vince Vaughn (Beanie) and Luke Wilson (Mitch) play three relationship-challenged, middle-aged men. Cheating girlfriends, divorces and total lack of marriage responsibilities motivates these dolts to have one last run at their glory days.

Mitch moves to a house right next to campus because of his girlfriend’s, shall I say, “friendly ways” with everyone. After much convincing and clever salesmanship by his friends, Mitch starts a fraternity. His house soon becomes the most popular place on campus – even Snoop Dogg shows up for a party. Followed by strange antics of kidnapping and extreme trust tests, the fraternity members are pitted against expulsion by a feverishly twitchy Jeremy Piven (Dean Pritchard).

Show-stealing Ferrell turns his character “Frank the Tank” into a fearless party machine. Successfully shooting himself with a tranquilizer dart, almost drowning in a swimming pool and somehow ending up kissing another man are part of just another day in his life. Ferrell’s hopeless midnight streaking with an invisible crowd of followers is funny, disgusting and clever all at the same time.

What “Old School” doesn’t do is give a reason to keep watching. “Old School” is pasted together by director Todd Phillips, who has stepped up from his last movie “Road Trip” to bring us his latest confusing creation. Between the hilariousness of beer-drinking and dumb males, there is a lot of time left to enjoy a hangover. Simply put, it doesn’t carry very well from scene to scene.

It throws everything, including the kitchen sink, into a funny situation, but the movie rarely gives a point of reference to where the plot is moving. What Phillips doesn’t explain very well is the subplot of the movie, which actually is about not being tied down after college, and a man’s fear of settling for a boring, uneventful life.

While not living up to “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which no movie ever has, it definitely is a step in the right direction for all the low-brow comedies as of late. I sat down expecting to watch another comedy filled with overrated scenes of adolescent situations featuring warm apple pie or just another movie that shows how many different ways idiots having sex can be funny.

What I found was a breath of fresh air. “Old School” doesn’t try to top other movies. It doesn’t try to take part in the most unspeakable actions, and it isn’t on the bandwagon of recent comedies. It puts a new spin on the go-for-broke attitude, and does it old school.