Synopsis
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter, Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.
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Cast
- Ryan ReynoldsVan Wilder
- Tara ReidGwen Pearson
- Tim MathesonVance Wilder Sr.
- Kal PennTaj Mahal Badalandabad
- Teck HolmesHutch
- Daniel CosgroveRichard Bagg
- Emily RutherfurdJeannie
- Paul GleasonProfessor McDoogle
- Erik EstradaErik Estrada
- Curtis ArmstrongCampus Cop
Recommendations
- 50
TV Guide Magazine
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
Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms. - 42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The gags on which it rests its laughs have been lifted from every other raucous comedy, campus-oriented or not. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Has to go down as a failed comedy. It's just not enough of a comedy. - 10
Film Threat
Much too aggressively juvenile crass.
