His father (Tim Matheson) finally cuts him off, leaving Van to figure out his own way to raise enough money to stay in school. He likes it there, and he is the biggest of the big men on campus, giving advice to freshmen, pumping up the basketball team, helping sick students and only very, very occasionally going to class. Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) has been at Coolidge College for seven years and has no intention of graduating. Just as “Not Another Teen Movie” was so clueless in its parodies that it became just another teen movie, “Van Wilder” is just a pale, crude imitation of movies like “Animal House” (the first “National Lampoon” movie, and one of the few not to do the name a disservice). It merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them.
But “Van Wilder” is not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks, college flicks, or even flicks in general.
The attachment of “National Lampoon’s” to the title suggests this might be a parody of some kind, as was the case with the last several movies with that moniker.
#NATIONAL LAMPOON VAN WILDER BLACK GUY MOVIE#
It is also the kind of movie in which the bad guy winds up with severe gastro-intestinal problems and has to relieve himself in an office wastebasket - an idea that I find funny on paper, and even when reflecting upon it, but not when I was forced to watch it happen on the silver screen in brilliant color and Dolby sound. (In this case, I will tell you only that it came from a dog.) “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” belongs to the genre of movies in which someone ingests something not meant to be ingested, usually a bodily fluid of some kind.
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