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Van Wilder (2002) Rank 3 Reviews
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Cyber-Funk Online Review (Mirza Causevic)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
CinemaSpeak.com (Jason White)
Remember when Jim Carrey was known as "that funny white guy from In Living Color?" He had a cult following, and few knew of him, but his faithful followers sang high praise, claiming he was the next Jerry Lewis, or something like that. ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at CinemaSpeak.com (Jason White)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Dan Bradley)
During my years at college in Philadelphia, there was a guy who lived at the end of the freshman hall whom had been around far longer than any other freshman. He gathered a following and essentially coached his young ones, myself included, on how to ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Dan Bradley)
Entertainment Ave! - The Movie Theater
Entertainmentopia - DVD Review
This won't be the best movie you ever see, and it won't be the last teen movie you ever see, but Van Wilder has a certain charm that sets it apart for the mediocre movies of the 1980s and creates one of the best college comedies this side of Road ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Entertainmentopia - DVD Review
UTK Daily Beacon (Pamela Smith)
The Monkeyhouse Lounge reviews
filmcritic.com boots Van Wilder (Blake French)
Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
Washington Post (Michael O'Sullivan)
The (Georgetown) Hoya
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A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
For the purposes of this review, I chose to watch the unrated version of National Lampoon's Van Wilder because it's probably the version most people will opt to watch now that it's on video. Boy, did I make a mistake. I've seen quite a bit of toilet humo ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
CountingDown review (Daniel Baig)
Movie House Commentary
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Someone in Hollywood must've sent out a memo promising "hit movies" for anything set in college with naked chicks, an ANIMAL HOUSE-feel and zany frat boys, since both SLACKERS and SORORITY BOYS preceded this film to theatres this year, but ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
San Diego Union-Tribune (Angela Carroll)
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. ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (Angela Carroll)
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MovieEye.com (Gareth Von Kallenbach)
DVDwolf (Rob Paul)
Box Office Prophets
MovieEye.com (Gareth Von Kallenbach)
The college party film is one of the most familiar of films to anyone who has watched teen comedies. Perhaps the most famous of the line would be "Animal House": where the late John Belushi had audiences in stitches with the antics of the Delta House and ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at MovieEye.com (Gareth Von Kallenbach)
DVD Verdict (Patrick Naugle)
Entertainment Insiders
CultureDose.net (John Beachem)
cin3ma - Moving Pictures
Film Monthly (Jon Bastian)
DVD Town (Dean Winkelspecht)
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Guess the Gross
IndependentCritics.com (TC Candler)
DVD Net (Adrian Turvey)
Movie-Vault.com (Nate Anderson)
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Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium review
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
allesfilm.com (Thomas Taborsky)
Mutant Reviewers From Hell
This lecture is aimed at the comedy filmmakers of the world who are apparently suffering under the delusion that gross equals funny. [throw a tomato at the screen] You see, once in a rare blue falootin' moon there comes a movie that presents a gross-out ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Mutant Reviewers From Hell
MovieFreak.com (John Teves)
Los Angeles Times (Gene Seymour)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
B Fatt. & Lazy Movie Reviews
The Hot Button (David Poland)
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)
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. ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)
Entertainment Insiders (Ed Malinowski)
Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
MovieJuice (Mark Ramsay)
Reel.com (Tor Thorsen)
The Trades (Alex Keen)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Tara Reid really stinks in this film. I had not noticed how bad she was in the past, probably because in her other films she was wisely relegated to the background (i.e., room decoration) while others were given the more substantive parts. But in the ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
An uneven mix of National Lampoon -style high jinks (yes, it feels slightly dated) and Farrelly-brothers touches tossed in for gross measure. ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
Entertainment Weekly
The title of National Lampoon's Van Wilder is, of course, meant to evoke memories of a certain other raucous college comedy. Leaving aside that the cachet of the Lampoon logo passed its expiration date somewhere around 1984, is there really an army ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Entertainment Weekly
Reel.com
Co-star Kal Penn steals the show as Van's assistant, Taj. When Taj is first introduced, he appears to be yet another cringe-inducing South Asian stereotype, replete with a thick accent (paging Apu Nahasapeemapetlon!) and nerdy style of dress. But when ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Reel.com
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Slant Magazine
he casting says it all. Remember Booger from Revenge of the Nerds? Curtis Armstrong is a bit cleaner in National Lampoon's Van Wilder. He plays a security guard at a college where seven-year student Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) reigns supreme. Like ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at Slant Magazine
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
Not a whole helluva lot! Van Wilder is enjoying his 7th year of undergrad experience, and when his rich Daddy pulls the plug, a whole gaggle of cheerleaders, goofballs, and slobs pour out of the woodwork to help Van stay in school. ...read the complete Van Wilder movie review at DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
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