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National Lampoon's Van Wilder

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Critics' Reviews

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Boston Globe: Loren King
Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
The result is a movie that is both laugh-out-loud funny and cringe-worthily silent.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dave Kehr
What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Gene Seymour
Those 24-and-unders who are looking for their own "Caddyshack" to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep looking.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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 Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Even by teen gross-out movie standards Van Wilder makes "Sorority Boys" look like "Some Like It Hot."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Painfully flat gross-out comedy.Read Full Review »
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