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National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:2
Rotten:18
Average Rating:3/10
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
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07/21/05
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11/05/02
Top CriticAn uneven mix of National Lampoon-style high jinks (yes, it feels slightly dated) and Farrelly-brothers touches tossed in for gross measure.
08/09/02
Top CriticAn unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.
07/20/02
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06/01/02
Top Critic... Tara Reid plays a college journalist, but she looks like the six-time winner of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant, so I don't know what she's doing in here ...
04/08/02
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04/06/02
Top CriticExecrable.
04/05/02
Top CriticImagine Animal House with the unfunny Chevy Chase in the lead, instead of either Matheson, John Belushi or Tom Hulce, and you've pretty much nailed the biggest problem with this evil incarnation.
04/05/02
Top CriticWhen it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz.
04/05/02
Top CriticThis is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script, inept direction, pathetic acting, poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography, complete with visible boom mikes.
04/05/02
Top CriticSmug and dumb as they come, it's a series of eruptive gross-out sketches tenuously linked by a romance plot.
04/05/02
Top Critic[Reynold's] boyish, sweet-natured comic appeal makes ''Van Wilder'' better than it has a right to be.
04/05/02
Top CriticThis movie, a certain scene in particular, brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch.
04/05/02
Top CriticThe movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh,' which is better than most of the writing in the movie.
04/05/02
Top CriticLaughter for me was such a physical impossibility during National Lampoon's Van Wilder that had I not been pledged to sit through the film, I would have lifted myself up by my bootstraps and fled.
04/05/02
Top CriticUnofficially, National Lampoon's Van Wilder is Son of Animal House. Officially, it is twice as bestial but half as funny.
04/04/02
Top CriticWhat's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.
04/04/02
Top CriticVan Wilder has a built-in audience, but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest.
04/04/02
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