Screw Tara Reid! Who needs her in this movie. We've got a cockney girl with huge knockers.
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Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:3
Rotten:39
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: A low-brow comedy, minus the comedy.
Theatrical Release:Dec 1, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $3,833,762
Synopsis: The legacy of perpetual college party-man Van Wilder lives on in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER 2: THE RISE OF TAJ, as his former apprentice Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn) takes the torch to... [More]
Starring: Anthony Cozens, Kal Penn, Holly Davidson, Daniel Percival
Director: Mort Nathan
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Reviews for Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
The question comes to mind: How do you make a Van Wilder movie without Van Wilder? The answer, after watching the end result, is you don't. Or at least you shouldn't.
12/02/06
Penn is capable of so much more.
02/03/07
Top CriticThis is the sort of film that thinks calling a beer a 'libation' is a form of wit.
12/01/06
Penn sports little of the squirrelly charm evidenced by the original Van Wilder star, Ryan Reynolds.
02/03/07
Granted, it's still ****, but with a sweeter odor than usual.
12/08/06
The Rise of Taj is relatively pointless in the scheme of things, but refreshing in what it (mostly) doesn't resort to for laughs.
12/04/06
Ill-conceived.
12/04/06
How "Van Wilder 2" somehow made it into theaters is baffling, because it's every bit as unfunny and cheap-looking as its direct-to-DVD brethren
12/01/06
This is shocking only for its tepidness; except for some raunchy language, it's ready-made for basic cable.
07/28/09
At one point I tried to force myself to fall asleep, just so I wouldn't have to sit through any more of it.
11/30/06
There was a hedonistic amorality and joyous celebration of privilege in the first Van Wilder that's missing from its sequel. That's fine with me. I hated that movie.
12/04/06
In this sequel to the 2002 campus comedy, Kal Penn spends much of the running time acting like Wilder I star Ryan Reynolds, which no actor with half a brain should be doing.
12/01/06
I have had knee-shaking, äss-skewering hemorrhoids that were funnier than this so-called comedy.
12/01/06
In an askew way, Rise of Taj is a better film than Van Wilder, but when encountering cinematic crap on this level, it's hard to clearly distinguish the taste anymore.
12/01/06
Ryan Reynolds did Blade: Trinity, people. If he thinks a sequel is beneath him, you'd better believe it.
12/01/06
Everything old is old again in this rickety extension of 2002's already rickety Van Wilder.
12/06/06
Top CriticRather than pushing the envelope, the movie draws pictures of boobies on the envelope and tries to pass that off as comedy.
11/30/06
prefers to dwell in deep direct-to-DVD juvenility.
03/27/07
Van Wilder 2's sense of numbing familiarity is not enhanced by director Mort Nathan's apparent unfamiliarity with the entire filmmaking process.
12/04/06
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