Ryan Reynolds,
Tara Reid,
Tim Matheson,
Kal Penn,
Daniel Cosgrove
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The "National Lampoon" franchise is resurrected for another politically incorrect collegiate romp with this R-rated gross-out sex comedy. National Lampoon's Van Wilder revolves around the exploits of ... read more
Directed by: Walt Becker
Release Date: April 5, 2002
Keywords:
funny,
ryan reynolds,
van wilder,
tara reid,
animal house,,
Ryan Reynolds ,
National Lampoon ,
Van Wilder ,
Tara Reid
DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002
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Flixster Reviews (7,540)
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January 31, 2011A sure sign that a film is bad is when suddenly it becomes a 'National Lampoon's' film. This film is truly awful though. For some reason I thought it was a Rob Schneider film. I'm not a huge Rob Schneider fan but compared to this garbage his films are Oscar worthy. My least favou... read more
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December 3, 2010Flixter deletion? Not quite a classic, but Ryan Reynolds is in this role. Great plot and a lot of funny moments.
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January 8, 2009Ryan is popular in college and has the time of his life, but has he been kept back from graduating because he is afraid of the real world?
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August 15, 2007Quality gross-out comedy. Ryan Reynolds brings a lot of fun to the role of party man Van Wilder at his college house. I liked the laxative trick, but the doggie treat scene was too much to even think about.
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July 23, 2007One of the better recent teen comedies, bit gross at times but has plenty of laughs.
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Critic Reviews
August 9, 2002
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
July 20, 2002
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags. Full Review
April 8, 2002
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
... 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 ... Full Review
April 5, 2002
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Imagine 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. Full Review
April 5, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
When it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz. Full Review
April 5, 2002
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
This 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 ...
April 5, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Smug and dumb as they come, it's a series of eruptive gross-out sketches tenuously linked by a romance plot. Full Review
April 5, 2002
Loren King, Boston Globe
[Reynold's] boyish, sweet-natured comic appeal makes ''Van Wilder'' better than it has a right to be. Full Review
April 5, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Laughter 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. Full Review
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