National Lampoon's Van Wilder Critic Reviews

Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.Read the full review

There's nary a comic idea in Van Wilder that isn't ripped off from a recent Farrelly brothers movie. But that doesn't stop Van Wilder from being very funny, provided you're not easily offended.Read the full review

Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.Read the full review

What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.Read the full review

Those 24-and-unders who are looking for their own "Caddyshack" to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep looking.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Even by teen gross-out movie standards Van Wilder makes "Sorority Boys" look like "Some Like It Hot."Read the full review

Has to go down as a failed comedy. It's just not enough of a comedy.Read the full review

Reynolds and Reid's white-bread romance begs to be left on the cutting-room floor, but then again, so does just about every other scene in Van Wilder, which distinguishes itself only in featuring a level of ejaculate rarely found outside of hardcore porn.Read the full review