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

93,144 ratings

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19% liked it

85 critics

R, 93 min.

Directed by: Walt Becker

Release Date: April 5, 2002

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DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002

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  • July 31, 2009
    not bad lol
  • 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.
  • November 3, 2009
    pastries make you gag too?....hoestly :)
  • October 30, 2009
    No N.L. college party movie will ever be as good as Animal House
  • October 22, 2009
    Aside from Animal House and the "Vacations", this is tops from National Lampoon.
  • October 13, 2009
    Loves this movie after all these years it still kicks ass. Ryan Reynolds really makes this movie his awesome comedy timing and witty remakes make this worth watching plus the scene with the dog jizz cakes are halrious.
  • October 6, 2009
    Having never seen a single National Lampoon movie, I was entertained and laughed a lot...the premise of the movie was unbelievable and kinda sad, but it worked in a weird way. Of course the ending would TOTALLY not happen on anyone's campus, but hence the power of hollywood.

Critic Reviews


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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