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National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:16
Rotten:70
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: A derivative gross-out comedy that's short on laughs.
Theatrical Release:Apr 5, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $4,208,429
Synopsis: Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds, ABC’s “Two Guys and a Girl”) might be starting his seventh year at Coolidge College, but graduation is the furthest thing from his mind. Armed with a personal assistant... [More]
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Reviews for National Lampoon's Van Wilder
While some of the pranks in National Lampoon's Van Wilder are more extreme than we've seen in There's Something About Mary or the American Pie movies, this film has enough heart to balance it out.
04/05/02
Its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces... are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half. Still, it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental.
09/09/02
For a movie that is almost entirely set at keggers, it's surprisingly entertaining.
04/04/02
Like Slackers, Super Troopers and last year's Wet Hot American Summer, Van Wilder is nostalgic for the gross-out yarns of yesteryear.
02/23/02
For a film like this to work, the hero must be as charming as he is irrepressible, and Reynolds, star of the ABC series Two Guys and a Girl, fits the bill.
04/01/02
If you're looking for yet another mindless college flick with a number of laughs and a captivating lead, you can certainly do much worse than this movie
04/02/02
An effervescent campus gross-out comedy that’s true to the amoral, anarchic spirit of Lampoon founder-editor and screenwriter Doug Kenney.
06/01/02
[Reynold's] boyish, sweet-natured comic appeal makes ''Van Wilder'' better than it has a right to be.
04/05/02
Top CriticYou'll likely hate yourself for laughing, but laugh you will.
08/19/02
I went in not wanting to like it, not wanting to laugh, and certainly not to give it any credence for being this generation's "Animal House." But it is, and it's funny.
05/20/02
Quite funny for the type of movie it is...
07/09/02
When Van Wilder sticks to its wits, its comedy is unstoppable. But...there's an equal (amount) of acute unoriginality and beyond-belief bad taste.
04/04/02
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02/04/03
While not for every taste, this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise, too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy.
04/05/02
This a movie wherein Tara Reid plays the 'smart girl' -- that alone has got to be worth the price of a ticket.
04/05/02
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12/06/05
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12/08/02
When you start giving National Lampoon movies a bad name, you must be doing something really wrong.
04/04/02
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