Ryan Reynolds,
Tara Reid,
Tim Matheson,
Kal Penn,
Erik Estrada
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The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate.
DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002
Stats: 7,232 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (7,232)
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January 8, 2009
Ryan is popular in college and has the time of his life, but has he been kept back from graduating because he is afraid of the real world?
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May 2, 2008
OMG this was super funny but also one part with the creme puffs and the bull dog was super sick lol.
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January 23, 2010
This is your typical National Lampoon movie with nudity and bathroom humor. But what makes it work is the performance from Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds plays a student who is big man on campus and just does not want to graduate. But between his father and the new girl he likes he must...( read more)
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January 20, 2010
You'll never think of bulldogs, pastries, protein shakes, or tutors in the same way again. Life is good for Van, who has no plans to graduate; he's got a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. His slick reputation even catches in the eye of sexy Gwen Pearson, an o...( read more)
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January 5, 2010
Ryan Reynolds carries the movie. Overall it was okay, there were some funny parts. 6/10
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December 31, 2009
It did have some funny moments, interesting characters with interesting quirks and quite a touch of inspiration. I enjoyed it, really. I may, however, forget ever watching it or what it was all about in a month or two. ^-^
Critic Reviews
When it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz. full review
Smug and dumb as they come, it's a series of eruptive gross-out sketches tenuously linked by a romance plot. full review
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. full review
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. full review
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