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"National Lampoon's Van Wilder"
(Reviewed February 25, 2002)
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This movie desperately wishes it were "Ferris Bueller Goes to College." Unfortunately, it is somewhat hampered in that aspiration by the fact that it is insistently, maddeningly, thoroughly unfunny. Continuing in the tradition of movies that try to outgross the Farrelly Brothers, this timewaster also includes such charming elements as dog semen, diarrhea and a schoolbus-load of projectile-vomiting kids. And they say that wit died with Wilde.
Absolutely the only thing I enjoyed about this wallow in the abyss was the presence of Tara Reid, simply because I like her looks. I also like the fact that she always seems as if she is ready to start crying, because she seems mopey and depressed all the time. (Lord knows why this is appealing, but--combined with her raspy monotone of a voice--it is strangely charming.)
Go rent "Ferris Bueller" again, instead of torturing yourself by attending this humorless abomination.
Back Row Grade: F (saved from an "F minus" by the presence of Ms. Reid)
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