(5/10)
OK, I think when you find yourself watching the sequel to "Van Wilder," you really can't get too bent out
of shape when you end up watching something stupid. You basically know what you're getting yourself
into. It's a silly, juvenile, idiotic movie. But taken on it's own terms - and for what it is - it's not
unenjoyable.
Having not seen the original I really can't judge it against that (or have any idea what the first one was
about). The film starts off with this Indian college student on airplane flying to the UK where he's going
to earn his doctorate and join an elite fraternity. The film starts with him hitting it off with a hot blonde
on the plane with dialogue so bad I kept waiting for the scene to turn out to be a dream sequence. He
and the blonde end up hitting it off so well they end up trysting in the largest airplane bathroom in
history which only makes things more unbelievable.
From there, he and his bulldog with giant testicles head to the frat house where the snobbish rich kids
there dismiss him (didn't see that coming), banishing him to the dilapidated old house where the misfits
are all sent off to. Of course he quickly takes to the four misfits in the house and hastily forms a
fraternity against all odds which of course become the only fraternity that can beat the other fraternity
in some competition (not sure what the competition exactly was - I was never a frat boy and I wasn't
really that caught up in the plot).
Of course I'm not spoiling any surprises by telling you that in the end the misfits win, the Indian guy wins
the bad frat guy's girlfriend (she must have a thing for bad fake Indian accents), and the dog covers an
entire room full of snobs in dog semen. OK, that last part might be a bit of a surprise, but apart from
that, this is a pretty by-the-numbers retread of "Animal House" meets "Revenge of the Nerds" by way of
"American Pie." It's not brilliant, it's not awful, but it's amusing if you've got nothing better to do and
know what you're getting yourself into.
I watched the Unrated version (there is the theatrical R-rated version available as well) but didn't see
very much here that wouldn't have gotten the R-rating. The unrated version of recent Hollywood movies
is generally a scam to make folks think they'll see something really dirty or gory, when in actuality they
just add in a scene or two which isn't necessarily offensive and claim this to be the unrated version
since the version the MPAA gave the R-rating didn't include that scene. It's a scam. If you're looking for
titillation there's not much in "Van Wilder 2" - two and a half brief topless scenes (one of which is clearly
a body double, which always takes the fun out of everything).
OK, I think when you find yourself watching the sequel to "Van Wilder," you really can't get too bent out
of shape when you end up watching something stupid. You basically know what you're getting yourself
into. It's a silly, juvenile, idiotic movie. But taken on it's own terms - and for what it is - it's not
unenjoyable.
Having not seen the original I really can't judge it against that (or have any idea what the first one was
about). The film starts off with this Indian college student on airplane flying to the UK where he's going
to earn his doctorate and join an elite fraternity. The film starts with him hitting it off with a hot blonde
on the plane with dialogue so bad I kept waiting for the scene to turn out to be a dream sequence. He
and the blonde end up hitting it off so well they end up trysting in the largest airplane bathroom in
history which only makes things more unbelievable.
From there, he and his bulldog with giant testicles head to the frat house where the snobbish rich kids
there dismiss him (didn't see that coming), banishing him to the dilapidated old house where the misfits
are all sent off to. Of course he quickly takes to the four misfits in the house and hastily forms a
fraternity against all odds which of course become the only fraternity that can beat the other fraternity
in some competition (not sure what the competition exactly was - I was never a frat boy and I wasn't
really that caught up in the plot).
Of course I'm not spoiling any surprises by telling you that in the end the misfits win, the Indian guy wins
the bad frat guy's girlfriend (she must have a thing for bad fake Indian accents), and the dog covers an
entire room full of snobs in dog semen. OK, that last part might be a bit of a surprise, but apart from
that, this is a pretty by-the-numbers retread of "Animal House" meets "Revenge of the Nerds" by way of
"American Pie." It's not brilliant, it's not awful, but it's amusing if you've got nothing better to do and
know what you're getting yourself into.
I watched the Unrated version (there is the theatrical R-rated version available as well) but didn't see
very much here that wouldn't have gotten the R-rating. The unrated version of recent Hollywood movies
is generally a scam to make folks think they'll see something really dirty or gory, when in actuality they
just add in a scene or two which isn't necessarily offensive and claim this to be the unrated version
since the version the MPAA gave the R-rating didn't include that scene. It's a scam. If you're looking for
titillation there's not much in "Van Wilder 2" - two and a half brief topless scenes (one of which is clearly
a body double, which always takes the fun out of everything).
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Rating;
| by Jim Haggerty |
