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2002 |
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Rated: R
for strong sexual content,
gross humor, language and some drug content. |
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Genre: Comedy |
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Directed By: |
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Running Time: 1: 35 |
| Review
by: Felix Vasquez Jr. |
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Review Date: 8/24/03 |
DVD Features:
Additional Release
Material:
Additional Footage - 1. Comedy Central's REEL COMEDY Special
2. 3 BURLY BEAR TV specials
Music Video - 1. Sugarcult
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes |
| If you like this
try: Road Trip, Animal House, American Pie, Old school, Sorority
Boys. |
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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER
(I.Q. going lower... lower...
lower...) |
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From the people who brought you "Vegas
Vacation" (Bad example), here's Van Wilder. At Coolidge College, Van Wilder
(Ryan Reynolds Two guys and a girl..., Meet the
Folks) is a seven year veteran and legend who is worshipped among college
goers. When his father (Tim Matheson Animal House, Brady Bunch Sequel)
discovers he's still paying tuition for Van Wilder, he decides to cut him off
financially. Desperate, Van decides to find numerous ways to raise the money and
stay in college but soon questions arise to his motives by a eager
straight-laced reported named Gwen (Tara Reid American Pie, 2) who
begins falling for him and he must fight off a fraternity intent on ruining his
mission. Well, it has a story, and it's in color, and it features a
lot of hot girls... yay women! Actually, Ryan Reynolds is a pretty good actor
when he's not trying to be funny, such can be seen in the climax of the film. I
just wish he would have starred in a better film.
Out of all the bad teen sex campus romps (ala
Road Trip), to the classics (ala American Pie), this has to be the
worst most putrid piece of trash I've ever seen. This poor excuse for a comedy
features the same old tired clichés we've seen from other sex romps except
everything falls flat here. After about ten minutes into the film, I could tell
the writers were scratching the bottom of the barrel with basically nothing to
write in to the story. They even begin resorting to desperate measures by
showing a butt shot of Merriman. Then there's this far-fetched storyline that
goes nowhere. How is it he's able to rent a hall and hire his own employees? How
is it he's able to drive a personalized golf cart around campus when other
people are walking? How is it he's able to walk in and out of classes without
the teacher's complaining? How is it he stays in college for seven years without
a major or attending a single class? I'm thinking too much into this trash heap.
Attempting to find some shred of logic from this disaster is not worth it.
Throughout the entire movie there's no wit or charm to this, so the writers
begin throwing very cheap, obvious, and over-used toilet and sex jokes from a
dog with overgrown testicles to ugly old ladies who are really sex fiends.
Hell,
they even manage to try to concoct an outrageous scene where the rival
fraternity in the film eats cannolies which are filled with a sort of internal
fluid that I won't mention. This sequence was not funny but very crude and vomit
inducing. Rather than laughing, all I did was cringe in my seat and gag while I
watched. I won't give away this ridiculous disgusting sequence, this one you
have to see for yourself. Also, the film goes for annoying sight gags
desperately put in place to grab a laugh from the audience and it's all so
predictable I never once broke into a smile. If the movie wasn't bad enough,
the supporting characters are nothing but dumb harsh racial stereotypes
including an immigrated Hindu guy who's an assistant to Van Wilder, and his pot
smoking African American sidekick. Word to the wise: don't feature these
annoying cliché ethnic characters because it's pathetic and just plain
offensive. I sat by the screen expecting the gang member hispanic to pop up, but
luckily I was let down. The entire plot is contrived featuring constant recycled
movie material from previous sex romps including the stuck up fraternity
rivaling with the hero; I never got the sense that there was anything even
remotely original in this film and often times it left me groaning in pain. The
love plot between Reynolds and Tara Reid is incredibly boring and ultimately
uninteresting. Tara Reid looks bored in this film and it's not hard to discover
that by her wooden cardboard acting.
For a movie that revolves around a college,
this is probably the dumbest most senseless film I've ever seen. Rude, crude,
obnoxious, disgusting, and unfunny is all this movie is. I'll think of more hateful
words later.

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