It's a tasteless, tacky movie full of cheap T&A.
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04/05/02
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.
Reviews for National Lampoon's Van Wilder
While I realize the film isn't aspiring to be anything more than a dumb and/or raucous comedy, there's good/smart dumb and lame/stupid dumb. This effort clearly falls into the latter category.
04/05/02
When it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz.
04/05/02
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
Van Wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table, but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like Tomcats, Freddy Got Fingered, and Slackers.
04/05/02
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 boom mikes.
04/05/02
Van Wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag.' At least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch.
04/05/02
Smug and dumb as they come, it's a series of eruptive gross-out sketches tenuously linked by a romance plot.
04/05/02
Adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick, although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service.'
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
[Reynold's] boyish, sweet-natured comic appeal makes ''Van Wilder'' better than it has a right to be.
04/05/02
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04/05/02
Top CriticThis movie, a certain scene in particular, brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch.
04/05/02
The 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
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.
04/05/02
Top CriticAnother week, another gross-out college comedy--ugh.
04/05/02
Once upon a time, anything associated with the name "National Lampoon" generated as many chuckles as a can of nitrous oxide. Now the effect is more like a laxative.
04/05/02
For a movie that is almost entirely set at keggers, it's surprisingly entertaining.
04/04/02
Had it not wandered into aforementioned eclair territory, it could have been better than a discount video rental.
04/04/02
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