National Lampoon's Van Wilder - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
| Director: Walter Becker
Actors: Curtis Armstrong, Joyce Brothers, Erik Estrada, Paul Gleason, Edie Mcclurg
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 14210
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 20453
UPC: 012236204534
EAN: 0012236204534
ASIN: B000ICLRG6
Theatrical Release Date: April 5, 2002
Release Date: November 28, 2006
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In a futile but ambitiously decadent attempt to revive the loony legacy of National Lampoon comedies, Van Wilder will make you laugh out loud, or vomit, or both. It's that kind of movie, in which the title character (played by sitcom survivor Ryan Reynolds) is the resident slacker of Coolidge College for seven years and running. Enjoying his party-animal supremacy and reluctant to fulfill his potential, he's got an idolizing assistant from India (Kal Penn, the movie's ethnic stereotype, desperate virgin, and comedic highlight), and a journalism major (Tara Reid) assigned to uncover the secret of Van's controlled anarchy. Unfortunately, the movie's more Down to You than Animal House, opting for familiar teen romance over campus shenanigans, despite an abundance of flatulence, diarrhea, sicko sex jokes, gratuitous nudity, and one gag (involving a bulldog) that's disgusting by any standard. Keg-fueled frat-rats will surely elevate Van Wilder to semiclassic status; all others are urged to proceed with caution. --Jeff Shannon
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 Gross and not funny April 14, 2009
D. Altier
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love comedies of all sorts including much of the National Lampoon offerings (American Pie, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express to give a quick sampling). This is terrible. It appeals to the lowest common denominator and offers nothing but bad sex and bathroom jokes. I love good sex and bathroom jokes; Van Wilder has none. Ryan Reynolds' acting is the one positive giving it the one requisite star. Really, just not funny.
 Van Wilder Review August 20, 2008
Karen A. Smith (Horse Shoe, NC)
I recieved this product in excellent condition, and well within the alloted time frame. Thank you for your great job.
 What Ferris Bueller would have been like in college May 13, 2008
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Van Wilder is a movie about everything people love about college, the reasons most reminisced. It's about debauchery, alcohol, parties, and sex-crazed young adults. Tailored to a younger male audience, it's full of gross-out humor, genetalia jokes, and crude putdowns.
Ryan Reynolds must have been jumping up and down for this role. It is unequivocally made for his nonchalant, cool-guy comedic delivery.
Van (Reynolds) has been at Coolidge college for 7 years. He knows everyone. He knows everything. He is basically the most popular kid on the entire campus. Essentially, he's what Ferris Bueller would have been in college - a complete slacker with potential for greatness.
When Van's father finds out he's been paying for Van to go to school for seven years, the tuition payments are cut. When faced with his lack of funding, Van, with the help of his personal assistant Taj (Kal Penn) - an Indian exchange student who desperately wants to have wild college experiences and memories - begin to throw parties in exchange for hard cash.
Meanwhile, Gwen (Tara Reid before she had all that busted plastic surgery and her before her skin began melting) is an aspiring journalist who is assigned a story on Van Wilder. Neither she nor her pre-med boyfriend Richard are happy about it, and despite the fact that she slowly falls for Van, the incumbent is not going to just give in to the guy who has started to pay for tuition by becoming a party planner.
Possibly the grossest and cruel payback scheme in history is devised, Van follows Gwen's lead when it comes to motivation and graduation, Taj gets his experience, and just about everyone - even a well-endowed bulldog - enjoys a happy ending. It's a hilarious movie, and if you can look past the poor attempts at a forced romantic sidebar, then you're sure to enjoy the depravity.
 It has it's moments... August 28, 2007
T. Coleman
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Of which I FF to. But as a movie? The show doesn't hold much interest. A movie like "Asian and Indian guy goes to White Castle" (I don't recall their names but if you've seen it you'll know) gives you a cohesive journey to enjoy. Van Wilder tries to update "Animal House" but fails by putting too much upon one character to hold it up.
High bitrate AVC encode ---> Marginal picture quality August 25, 2007
S. Baker
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
First of all, I loved the movie. The audio is spectacular, the video marginal. They used an AVC encode that is always over 30Mbps which should yield a top-tier image. Unfortunately the result is less than spectacular.
Buy it if you like the movie. Skip it if you already have the DVD.
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