Rotten
An uneven mix of National Lampoon-style high jinks (yes, it feels slightly dated) and Farrelly-brothers touches tossed in for gross measure.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Don't graduate. Celebrate.
2002 · 1h 32m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Walt Becker
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Overview
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
18%
Tomatometer
Rotten
An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
An effervescent campus gross-out comedy that's true to the amoral, anarchic spirit of Lampoon founder-editor and screenwriter Doug Kenney.
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
... Tara Reid plays a college journalist, but she looks like the six-time winner of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant, so I don't know what she's doing in here ...
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Execrable.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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