| 63 |
Boston Globe
Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
The film's sheer likability and very impressive gag-to-giggle ratio derive more from sweetness and sharpness than from shit jokes.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The result is a movie that is both laugh-out-loud funny and cringe-worthily silent.
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| 50 |
Variety
There's nary a comic idea in Van Wilder that isn't ripped off from a recent Farrelly brothers movie. But that doesn't stop Van Wilder from being very funny, provided you're not easily offended.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The gags on which it rests its laughs have been lifted from every other raucous comedy, campus-oriented or not.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
The laugh-out-loud jokery is in short supply, and Reynolds and Reid's kicky charm only goes so far. Bluto Blutarsky, we miss you.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Those 24-and-unders who are looking for their own "Caddyshack" to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep looking.
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| 30 |
New Times (L.A.)
Merely labeling National Lampoon's Van Wilder "sophomoric" or "vulgar" doesn't do justice to the perpetrators' dedication.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Has to go down as a failed comedy. It's just not enough of a comedy.
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| 25 |
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.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
A very funny movie ... in some alternate universe, maybe.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
A movie that shouldn't be allowed on the same campus as "Animal House."
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
This utter waste of time has next-to-nothing to do with the infinitely wittier golden-age National Lampoon movies.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Even by teen gross-out movie standards Van Wilder makes "Sorority Boys" look like "Some Like It Hot."
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
Painfully unfunny.
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| 20 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Reynolds and Reid's white-bread romance begs to be left on the cutting-room floor, but then again, so does just about every other scene in Van Wilder, which distinguishes itself only in featuring a level of ejaculate rarely found outside of hardcore porn.
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| 10 |
Rolling Stone
Painfully flat gross-out comedy.
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| 10 |
Film Threat
Much too aggressively juvenile crass.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.
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| 0 |
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 boom mikes.
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