National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

'Van Wilder' certainly doesn't attempt to reinvent the wheel, sticking beat for beat with your standard college/slacker comedy, but like its star, Ryan Reynolds, it's an amiable enough flick that gets by more on its likability, fast pace and fun atmosphere than an abundance of laugh out loud gags.The aforementioned Reynolds is backed up by an equally likable, if perhaps culturally stereotypical, performance from Kal Penn. Together they make a solid comedic Batman and Robin. The rest of the cast fill in nicely around them, with only the talent-challenged Tara Reid seemingly out of her depth. Scary when you think about just how shallow 'Van Wilder' is.

The most popular kid on campus (Ryan Reynolds) meets a hideously deformed journalist (Tara Reid) who makes him realize that maybe he is afraid to graduate.When I first viewed this movie (circa 2003), I was not terribly impressed and absolutely repulsed by a certain scene that has made it notorious. The scene adds nothing to the film other than to make audiences feel sick to their stomachs.Upon rewatching (2014), there is still an overall crudeness to the film that may not be necessary, and seems to be an unfortunately part of comedy movies made at the time (the "American Pie" series is very similar in tone). But, I must confess, there is a certain sentimentality to it all, and if it were not for that one moment, this might be a fairly decent film. Not great, but decent.Ryan Reynolds may not be the biggest actor out there, but this film put him on the map, and it should be recognized for that, too.

Van Wilder: Party Liaison is an awful movie with a storyline that seemed interesting but turned out terrible and a great comedic cast that are wasted by a brutal script.The movie is just one ridiculous joke after another,I literally didn't properly laugh at any scene,a lot of parts were just purposely disgusting,like the part with the dog and the twinkies,I don't see how anyone could write something like that and expect people to find it funny instead of just plain gross.I really like Ryan Reynolds as an actor and he's gone on to prove after this film that he can definitely act,but Van Wilder was just an annoying character that I found very unlikeable and wasn't rooting for him throughout this film,the only character who's scenes I enjoyed in any way was Kal Penn's character.Van Wilder: Party Liaison is a terrible movie that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Van Wilder,a student who's been attending college for seven years and showing no sign of leaving,realizes that he is afraid to face the real world when a journalist starts writing about him. Best Performance: Kal Penn Worst Performance: Daniel Cosgrove

I saw only ten minutes of this movie. It opens with Van Wilder, the main character, giving a speech at the commencement ceremonies. I thought it was for college, because everybody in cap and gown looks to be in their twenties. I was shocked when they made it clear that it was a high school graduation. As the popular class president continues speaking, the next speaker, a female valedictorian, crawls under the podium and proceeds to give Van Wilder oral sex as he delivers his speech. This was very demeaning to women and was extremely vulgar. Then, we see that Van Wilder's father is a tycoon, he gets whatever he wants, and the most gorgeous supermodel-type girls go crazy over him. This doesn't make sense, because the smirky Van Wilder doesn't seem to possess any special looks or charm that would make him desirable to women. At this point, I turned it off and, judging by the other comments; including the doggie/eclair scene, I'm very glad I did.