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NUMBERS
Box Office: $21,005,329
VHS Rentals: $9,160,000
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CONSENSUS
A derivative gross-out comedy that's short on laughs.
CAST & CREW
Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal Penn
Directed by Walt Becker
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sexual content, gross humor, language and some drug use
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 5, 2002
Video: Aug 20, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Artisan Entertainment
GENRE
Comedies, Sex
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official National Lampoon's Van Wilder Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "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.'"
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"What’s next? The Porky’s Revenge: Ultimate Edition?"
-- Scott Weinberg, DVD CLINIC
"Often silly – and gross – but it’s rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions, Walt Becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons."
-- Simon Wardell, BBCI FILMS
"While Van Wilder may not be the worst National Lampoon film, it's far from being this generation's Animal House."
-- Heather Wadowski, FILM THREAT
 "I went in not wanting to like it, not wanting to laugh, and certainly not to give it any credence for being this generation's "Animal House." But it is, and it's funny."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"Not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks, college flicks, or even flicks in general. It merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"While not for every taste, this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise, too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy."
-- Steve Simels, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The problem is not that it's all derivative, because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes. The problem is that Van Wilder does little that is actually funny with the material."
-- Charles Savage, MIAMI HERALD
"... think of it as American Pie On Valium."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters."
-- David Poland, HOT BUTTON
"For each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses, many coming from the amazingly lifelike Tara Reid, whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"An effervescent campus gross-out comedy that’s true to the amoral, anarchic spirit of Lampoon founder-editor and screenwriter Doug Kenney."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
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"The film is all over the place, really. It dabbles all around, never gaining much momentum."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"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."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Another week, another gross-out college comedy--ugh."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces... are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half. Still, it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"National Lampoon's Van Wilder was better than we expected; a 'not a total waste of money' kind of dateflick for those just hitting pre-collegiate years."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Quite funny for the type of movie it is..."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
"National Lampoon's Van Wilder may aim to be the next Animal House, but it more closely resembles this year's version of Tomcats."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"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."
-- Sue Pierman, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"National Lampoon's Van Wilder could be the worst thing to come out of National Lampoon since Class Reunion"
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
"What more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school?"
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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ROTTEN 10%
Avg. Rating: 2.9/10 |
"[A] painfully flat gross-out comedy ..."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Those 24-and-unders looking for their own Caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking."
-- Gene Seymour, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"For a film like this to work, the hero must be as charming as he is irrepressible, and Reynolds, star of the ABC series Two Guys and a Girl, fits the bill."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"... 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 ..."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Unofficially, National Lampoon's Van Wilder is Son of Animal House. Officially, it is twice as bestial but half as funny."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"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."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"Execrable."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"This movie, a certain scene in particular, brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"Van 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."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"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."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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"Strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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