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National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Artisan Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, gross humor, language and some drug content
Starring
Ryan Reynolds,
Tara Reid,
Kal Penn,
Tim Matheson,
Kim Smith,
Daniel Cosgrove,
Tom Everett Scott,
and
Chris Owen
A hilarious coming-of-age story about the burden of facing real life...and the freedom that comes from not taking it too seriously. (Artisan Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Brent Goldberg
David Wagner
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Walt Becker
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 20, 2002
Video: August 20, 2002
Theatrical: April 5, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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63
Boston Globe
Loren King
Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.

60
LA Weekly
John Patterson
The film's sheer likability and very impressive gag-to-giggle ratio derive more from sweetness and sharpness than from shit jokes.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The result is a movie that is both laugh-out-loud funny and cringe-worthily silent.

50
Variety
Scott Foundas
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.

50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
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.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
The gags on which it rests its laughs have been lifted from every other raucous comedy, campus-oriented or not.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
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.

40
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.

30
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Those 24-and-unders who are looking for their own "Caddyshack" to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep looking.

30
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
Merely labeling National Lampoon's Van Wilder "sophomoric" or "vulgar" doesn't do justice to the perpetrators' dedication.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Has to go down as a failed comedy. It's just not enough of a comedy.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

25
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A very funny movie ... in some alternate universe, maybe.
25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A movie that shouldn't be allowed on the same campus as "Animal House."
25
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
This utter waste of time has next-to-nothing to do with the infinitely wittier golden-age National Lampoon movies.

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Even by teen gross-out movie standards Van Wilder makes "Sorority Boys" look like "Some Like It Hot."

20
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
Painfully unfunny.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
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.

10
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Painfully flat gross-out comedy.

10
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Much too aggressively juvenile crass.

10
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
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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