National Lampoon's Van Wilder (Party Liaison)

Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson

The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate.

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78% liked it

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18% liked it

R, 93 min.

Directed by: Walt Becker

Released: April 5, 2002

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DVD Released: August 20, 2002

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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?
  • September 18, 2008
    I really like Reynolds, sue me.
  • May 13, 2008
    Ryan Reynolds carries this movie no doubt about it.
  • May 2, 2008
    OMG this was super funny but also one part with the creme puffs and the bull dog was super sick lol.
  • March 6, 2008
    The eating dog's cum scene was probably one of the most vomit inducing experiences of my life
  • June 27, 2009
    This movie is one the most hilarious movies i' have ever seen. the dog cum seen was the most disgusting seen i have ever seen

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April 5, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

It's a tasteless, tacky movie full of cheap T&A. full review

April 5, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

When it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz. full review

April 5, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Smug and dumb as they come, it's a series of eruptive gross-out sketches tenuously linked by a romance plot. full review

April 5, 2002
Roger Ebert, 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. full review

April 5, 2002
Claudia Puig, USA Today

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

March 15, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

[A] painfully flat gross-out comedy ... full review

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  • LP4eva
    March 7, 2007
    loved this movie, ryan reynolds is a gr8 actor, and very funny! he's in my favourite movie also - Blade: Trinity

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