Van Wilder

Plot synopsis:
Vance “Van” Wilder, Jr. (Ryan Reynolds) is a confident and cheeky-chappy senior in his seventh year at Coolidge College. With no ambition to graduate, Van spends his days driving around campus in his customized golf cart, posing nude for figure drawing classes, organizing soirees for his peers and interviewing for a new assistant, whom he eventually finds in the sexually repressed Taj Badalandabad (Kal Penn).
Upon learning that his son is still in school, Van’s father, Vance Wilder Sr. (Tim Matheson), decides to sever Van’s financial support, citing that “sometimes you have to recognize a poor investment, and simply cut your losses.” Faced with disenrollment due to unpaid tuition, Van seeks a payment extension as a favor from Deloris, the registrar. Knowing Van’s sexual prowess, the elderly administrator forces Van to have sex with her in exchange for an extension. Afterwards, Deloris hands him the paperwork for an extension, which Van realizes is all he needed to ask for in the first place.
While at a strip club, Van schemes to begin a tutoring program for Coolidge students using topless strippers as the instructors, reasoning the students to succeed in their tutoring sessions. The hustle is short-lived, however, when the strip club owner demands the women employed by his club return to work. Meanwhile, Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid) is an academically successful reporter for the campus newspaper.
While her articles are well-written, they do not generate interest from the student body. Her editor assigns her to get an “unattainable” human interest story on Van Wilder, which she hesitantly accepts. Out of ideas, Van is approached by the Lambda Omega Omega fraternity, offering to pay him several thousand dollars to throw them a blowout party and boost their popularity.
Van agrees, throwing them a hit 1970s-themed roller disco party. Overhearing two of the Lambdas expressing their excitement over the party’s success and their satisfaction with Van’s work, Gwen writes a story crediting Van as the host of the party. Van scolds the story, having intended for the student body to believe that the Lambda’s threw the party believing they deserved such recognition. Gwen apologizes, and Van agrees to sit down with Gwen for the follow-up piece her editor had assigned for the cover of the graduation edition; frustrating Gwen when he repeatedly claims their interviews are actually dates.
Gwen’s boyfriend, Richard “Dick” Bagg (Daniel Cosgrove), is a pre-medical student and the president of his fraternity Delta Iota Kappa, or DIK. As he learns of Gwen’s work with Van and suspects a growing bond between them, he moves to sabotage their prospective romance. Van and Richard exchange escalating pranks until it culminates in Van, Taj and Van’s roommate Hutch (Teck Holmes) replacing the cream filling of a batch of pastries with canine semen taken from Van’s English Bulldog Colossus.
Employing a tactic Van previously used to get her out of class earlier in the film, Gwen accesses Van’s records from the Admissions & Records office while doing background work on her piece. She learns that Van has actively avoided graduating for the past seven semesters, questioning his motives for doing so. Angry that Gwen dug into such personal details, Van disassociates himself with Gwen and takes a contemplative look at his life.
Taj shows Van that he only needs to throw one more party to cover his fees for the semester. Meanwhile, Richard arranges to sabotage this party with Jeannie (Emily Rutherfurd), a member of a sister sorority. The night of the party, under the guise of resolving their differences, Richard, Jeannie and his fraternity’s Vice President distract Van and Hutch at the door while they smuggle underaged children into the party and get them drunk, then call a campus police officer to the scene.
As the officer is leaving, believing nothing wrong has happened, two of the minors appear outside completely incoherent. As a result, Van is arrested for selling alcohol to minors and faces expulsion from Coolidge. The student body pools its resources to defend Van against the charges before a university panel featuring, among others, Van’s collegiate adversary Professor McDougal (Paul Gleason), Deloris and Richard.
While the law club invests time coaching Van to plead innocent to the charges, the rest of the student body works to generate support for Van. Having learnt from his past mistakes and what Gwen has shown him, Van goes off book during the hearing and takes responsibility for the kids at the party. He throws himself at the mercy of the court and asks that rather than expelling him they force him to graduate since he is only 18 units shy of his degree.
With Professor McDougal as the swing vote, he surprises everyone by casting the 3-2 vote in favor of Van’s reinstatement, and as Van studies for the quickly-approaching finals, Gwen learns from Jeannie that not only did she and Richard frame Van for the kids at the party, but they also slept together the night the plan was conceived.
In retaliation for this, Gwen spikes Richard’s ritual protein shake with a powerful laxative just prior to him taking the MCAT. The effects set in just as the exam begins, with no bathroom breaks permitted for the two-hour exam period. Unable to hold out, Richard “dials down the middle” of most his multiple-choice exam sheet and hurriedly exits the exam room, disgusting his fellow test takers with his flatulence. As he rushes to find a bathroom, he is intercepted by one of the doctors from the group meant to interview him for admission to Northwestern Medical School. Unable to hold himself any longer, Richard strips off his pants and has violent diarrhea in the waste basket in the room, to the revulsion and horror of the doctors present.
Van is further acquitted when Gwen publishes in her graduation article about Van that Richard was actually to blame for the incident involving the drunken minors. The student body waits with bated breath as Van makes his way through his finals.
With his economics final five minutes away, Van is awoken by Taj and rushes across campus for the exam with Professor McDougal. Van utilizes the entire exam period, finishing with a negative attitude. He awaits the results of the exam, which are personally delivered by McDougal himself, who informs him that he passed and will thus graduate. McDougal notes that he had been so hard on him all those years because he believed Van wasn't living up to his potential, Van responds that he thought McDougal had just been upset over him "fooling around" with McDougal's daughter.
The university celebrates Van’s graduation with a wild party held in Van’s honor. Van’s father appears, admitting he was wrong and expressing his pride in Van’s success. Gwen then arrives, lovingly reuniting with Van.

Tags: entertaining, cult, humor, comedy, adult comedy

Review:
i didn't expect much coming into this movie, i didn't hear much about it and Van wilder was one of the national lampoon movies without Chevy Chase.
Reynolds did a spectacular job in the movie, but I must say that without the character Taj the movie wouldn't have been as funny.This is more of a guy comedy type movie but my gf loved it also.The donuts scene I must say was a little gross but still the movie was amazing.
This is the kind of guy everyone would like to be or know in College.I don't think they could of taken anyone else then Reynolds to do this role maybe I m just saying that because he is one of my favorite actors but he did do a great job.
This jerk will do anything to get Wilder out of college.Directed by Walt Becker (Buying the Cow, Wild Hogs) made an smoothly surprisingly well done outrageous comedy with a couple of very funny scenes (With also one hilarious gross-out scene is actually disgustingly memorable, if you like it or not).
Reynolds' appealing performance makes this college comedy film fun to watch.
If you cannot take any of the above and find enjoyment in them, don't waste your time with Van Wilder.If, on the other hand, you like vomit-inducing pranks, beautiful young girls flashing their boobies, and hilarious one-liners galore peppered by a huge dose of stereotypes (but without hatred), you will have one of the most entertaining 2 hours of your life.
A surprise find is the actor playing Tara's boyfriend: he plays so well, you will LOVE to hate him.All I can say is, with college for 20 years behind me, I wish I had a Van Wilder when I was attending school.
I've started to enter my pompous intellectual phase, yet I still have a big weakness for teen movies.Animal house, Ferris, Weird Science, Bachelor Party and more recently a resurgence with American Pie, Road Trip, Have the Cow and Van Wilder.All of these films are great, IMO.
At least you have the innocence and optimism to know your life is all in front of you and getting laid and having fun, is pretty much the only thing on your mind (that hasn't changed if we are honest).I am disappointed that so many people criticise a film that clearly wasn't meant to be taken too seriously and is genuinely funny.
National Lampoon's Van Wilder is an aggressively funny movie,unashamed by its bad taste..
Not only is this movie gut-bustingly funny  if you can get past the crude visual puns like a pit-bull with what looks like a ten-pound scrotum attachment, and a crotch-enhancer pump that is mistaken for a bong  this transcendent comedy of gross manners is most affecting because it's incredibly well-made.
Director Walter Becker (creator of the ingenious short-film Saving Ryan's Privates) handles the irreverent and random acts of background physical comedy with ease and panache.The campus wild man is fittingly known as Van Wilder (played by Ryan Reynolds).
Van Wilder has enthusiastic support from everyone but his burned-out workaholic father (played by Tim Matheson, once the wild man in National Lampoon's Animal House) who decides after seven years of his son's enrollment to stop tuition payment.Van Wilder becomes the subject of a school newspaper editorial and Tara Reid plays the snobby, uptight reporter Gwen whose ties belong to frat boy Richard Bagg (Daniel Cosgrove), who conducts hazing rituals that are crueler than anything since Animal House.
There are innocent people involved in the mayhem, including a scene where pre-pubescent boys raid one of Van Wilder's parties and end up barfing out of a school bus (but hey, these young boys had the time of their life until then).
Van Wilder wants to be the next iconic gross out teen movie.
The National Lampoon magazine folded during the filming of their "Loaded Weapon 1" movie back in the 90s, and since then they've dished out nothing but weak remakes of earlier classics, and "Van Wilder" proves to be no exception.
Ryan Reynolds is typically annoying as the title character who frees his college from studying and the ideal to better oneself and turns it into a party-zone with the help of recycled gags, predictable one-liners, and a slew of bad supporting actors and actresses.
Featuring some of the worst acting this side of Pauley Shore from newcommer Ryan Reynolds (apparently channeling Chevy Chase) and "veteran" teen film actress Tara Reid (whose acting seems to get worse and worse with each performance, if that is possible).
I will say this about National Lampoon's films of late---they are getting funnier--AND maybe someday, the movies they crank out now will be as good as the earlier ones they released.
The movie Van Wilder is OKAY, but I'm sure they could have done a bit better in churning up the laughs--everything is too heavily relied on gross humour.
The film doesn't explain why she was dressed this way or why this scene was necessary but it is clear that the target audience is teenage boys and that the depiction of women is slanted accordingly.Overall then a mostly unfunny and obvious genre movie that goes through the motions but does very little else.
Van Wilder was a really funny and great installment in the National Lampoon series.
Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid were really good, and the movie had lots of sick gags and hilarious sequences.
All, in all, Van Wilder was a good and huomorously disgusting movie that you will love.
I generally hate these teen sex comedies and I approached "Van Wilder" with hesitation, but I actually found it to be quite entertaining and humorous (if you're in the right mood, I suppose).Ryan Reynolds (doing a great Chevy Chase impersonation) is a guy in his late 20s who has been at college for eight years and still doesn't have a graduation in sight.
His father, a rich politician (played by Tim Matheson), finally decides to cut off his son's money and as a result, Van has to think of a way to come up with enough cash to stay in school.Pretty soon Van becomes a party planner and uses his knowledge on partying to throw great ones for nerds.
Don't get me wrong, it's not a great movie; but I found Reynolds (who seems to pick up a lot of flak) to be quite funny and Matheson and other ex-Lampoon star cameos were amusing.Recommended for those who can enjoy stupid humor.
Ryan Reynolds is funny, but other than him, the entire movie is nothing but a parade of pretty faces in a very bad script with no comedy..
Ryan Reynolds plays the titled slacker who's been residing at Coolidge College for seven years living it up until his dad (Tim Matheson of "Animal House") decides to stop payment on his tuition for not making good grades.
So, Van Wilder tries to come up with fool-proof schemes that will get him some fast money so he can stay in school.The latest from National Lampoon tries to be as good as "Animal House," but fails.
Okay, this movie tried to be a cross between a light-hearted comedy and a gross-out film in the tradition of Animal House and American Pie. Sadly, it could not achieve a satisfactory balance.
While I admit lots of really really bad movies targeted to young people these days have had some success, I have faith in my generation, that they will avoid this crap college flick, like they would avoid the cops when transporting alcohol in their backpacks to their desired party destination when they are underage.
While I like to joke about college as much as the next guy, Van Wilder seems to have been written from every played out, cliche bit of college humor and comedy, rarely a  scenario being close to accurate of real college life either..
But if you feel like conducting your own experiment in terror, watch this, but get a copy of Road Trip as a palate cleanser for afterwards, it's not Citizen Kane, but it's amusing and the man who directed it finds new and interesting ways to expose the female form, the thing that many will be expecting to see when they watch this type of movie.
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.
So a movie these days that has anything to do with teenagers can't possibly be a comedy, but nothing less than a hardcore drama to say the least, unless you consider the sky high divorce rates and incredibly declining birthrates and out of wedlock birthrates of today to be funny.Van Wilder is one of the most disgusting movies that has ever been made.
Likewise, grossness is not funny, it's not going to automatically result into a good comedy movie.
This film is wannabe all the way in its attempt to borrow things from other movies, like Wilder's sex with a nasty looking lady (stole Woody's fling from Kingpin ).
Van Wilder has been at Coolidge University for 7 years now {this is mentioned about every other minute in the movie, clearly the film's 'star' joke}.
When I say a cameo from EE is the highlight of the movie you'll understand just how poor a movie this is VAN WILDER is one of those gross out comedies that seems to be a cross between American Pie and FREDDIE GOT FINGERED .
National Lampoon, which hasn't used its name on a movie in years (hell, "Vegas Vacation" didn't even use it), slaps it on the latest in a string of tasteless comedies, this crap heap called "Van Wilder".
The last movie to do this successfully was "Road Trip", which, in my opinion, is up there with "Animal House".Ryan Reynolds(Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place), in the title role, is a very exciting, charismatic actor with an acute sense of comic timing, but he's still no John Belushi.
National Lampoon movies used to be what we looked to for good laughs and gratuitous nudity.
Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is the eternal student at Coolidge College where he has been studying for seven years but yet to graduate.
When some under-age kids are found by the police drinking in one of his parties Van Wilder's college days seem to be numbered and he decides he finally needs to grow up, realise his potential and graduate while taking revenge on the local college jock who got him into trouble.The film is a cross between Animal House and American Pie. Tim Matheson who plays Van Wilder's father appeared in Animal House and Tara Reid who plays the student paper journalist appeared in American Pie.There is also plenty of gross out humour such as éclairs filled with dog semen or a protein shake laced with laxatives.
There is the added sub-plot of Wilder's assistant, an Indian exchanges student, Taj Mahal wanting to have sex with an American girl and getting into all sorts of scrapes like setting himself on fireReynolds injects enough heart and decency in Van Wilder to actually make you root for him and it is amusing enough with bad taste pranks to make you laugh several times..
'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.
National Lampoon's Van WilderEconomically speaking, most parents would likely prefer to have a permanent high school student as a child than a permanent college student.Unfortunately, the father in this comedy has the latter.After seven-years of loafing through college, Van Wilder's (Ryan Reynolds) dad (Tim Matheson) has enough and cuts off all funding to his son.Forced to go it alone, Van makes an agreement with school heads that he can cram a year's worth of information into his head in six days, and finally graduate.But that won't be easy, as Van is in a prank-off with a fraternity brother that doesn't like him hitting on his girlfriend Gwen (Tara Reid).More gross-out comedy than genuine laughs, for some reason Van Wilder has had a cult-like following that relished its over-the-top sexual perversions, and revel in the leads blasé nature.Incidentally, the ultimate college prank is convincing students to buy textbooks.
There is no doubt in my mind that a lot of viewers will be offended by those scenes, and as a result have their whole experience ruined.The story in the movie is very simple: Van Wilder is still in College, for the 7th year in a row.
Tim Matheson is first-rate.On the whole, 'Van Wilder' offers some really good laughs..
A lot of bathroom humor and takes from American Pie, Road Trip, Not Another Teen Movie and Animal House of course.
My university had an advanced screening of Van Wilder a couple of weeks ago, and I must say that I found it to be up there with the likes of American Pie and Animal House when it comes to gross out, college humor.
Taj is an international student who volunteers his time to Van in order to learn how to better pick up women.This is a very typical college humor movie, along the lines of American Pie and Animal House.
The gross-out gags were laugh out loud funny, and the movie moved along at a good pace.
VAN WILDER  *+__  Romantic Comedy / Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal PennVan Wilder is a professional college student.
The movie seemed pulled by two producers--one, an old-time National Lampoon man who uses dry wit and satire; the other, a thirty-something MTV exec who knows 18-year-olds love to be grossed out.
But older college movies like Animal House and even PCU succeeded in that satirization while still having a lot of different types of girls on-screen, and not just beautiful ones.
If you like the mix of gags with more cerebral comedy of earlier National Lampoon films, you'll be bored and annoyed that Van Wilder didn't fully use its actors' potential..
I just came from a free preview and all my friends agreed that this is definately one of the funnier movies we've seen in a LONG time.Ryan Reynolds (Van) is gut-bustingly funny throughout the film with his own spin of Jim Carrey/Jeremy Piven charisma, and Tara Ried shines as always as the ridiculously hot school newspaper reporter.If you're looking for a good time and great laughs reminiscent of PCU, Real Genius or Animal House, then GO SEE THIS MOVIE!But as fair warning, if you have any qualms about excessive grossness, beware, Van Wilder is chock full of it.Personally, I can't wait see more of Ryan Reynolds.
In the tradition of such films as Ferris Bueller, Road Trip & the American Pie movies this "coming of age" comedy made me fall out of the theater chair laughing!
But you will have a lot of laughs and a good time viewing Natl' Lampoon's Van Wilder.
Even though this makes the man sound bad, you'll notice there is much more to Van Wilder.The movie follows the recent teen trend of outrageously disgusting sight gags, but adds a few decent tricks to the mix.
Going into this film, I expected to see a raunchy, humorous movie similar to Animal House(as the trailer and reviews stated).
Oh my, Van Wilder is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time.
If you liked American Pie, You will more than love Van Wilder.
The movie was a good, solid film, with lots of humorous parts.
Ryan Reynolds is hilarious, and definitely turns a pretty week story line into an entertaining movie.
I really did like the movie, it just was not up to the National Lampoon films of past..
I expected quite a bit more from National Lampoon but considering the other comedies that have come out this year, Van Wilder is easily among the best.
I recommend you see Van Wilder if you just need to have a good laugh and you have an extremely sick sense of humor..
Ryan Reynolds stars as Van Wilder, a Coolidge College student who has been there for seven years and just doesn't want to leave.
I honestly liked this movie, and I thought that Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid did a great job.
The movie is not the next Animal House, despite what National Lampoon would like, but it was amusing and had me laughing till I was in pain at several points.-- Be warned though, a lot of the comedy is very crass, so if you don't like gross out humor- then this movie isn't for you..
This movie takes me back to great days of the 80's comedies and adds the 90's gross out humor that we all love.
VAN WILDER IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE I'VE SEEN IN A LOOOOOONG TIME!!
Kal Penn, playing Van's assistant Taj, steals the movie even from Ryan Reynolds.
van wilder was the most hilarious national lampoons flick i have seen in a while.
Ryan Reynolds does an incredible job as Van Wilder while co-stars Kal Penn and Tara Reid create memorable characters.