The bottom line is that "Rise of Taj" may not rank up there with the funniest movies of all time, and it pales in comparison to the first Van Wilder. But to those who attended the free screening ...

Van Wilder turns milder in “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj.” That’s mainly because Ryan Reynolds has aged out of the sneering grad-student demographic and isn’t in the ...

Van’s dad, Vance Wilder (played by Tim Matheson, who was the suave ladies’ man Otter in “Animal House”), miffed at his son’s endless education, cuts off his allowance, forcing Van to ...

Watching Van Wilder today is a weirdly refreshing experience. It is too slapdash to be rediscovered as an actual good movie. Yet it is definitely not a boring one — more watchable, in fact, than ...

The National Lampoon, once a brand name above nearly all others in comedy, has become shorthand for pathetic frat boy humor; its latest installment is “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: The Rise ...

Van Wilder is a seventh year undergraduate student and the king of his college campus. He refuses to finish college, opting to live the life of a collegiate bachelor surrounded by alcohol, women and ...

It was bound to happen. It seems a decade can't go by without National Lampoon's trotting out another round of college chicanery for us to compare to Animal House. This decade's entrant is Van ...

On March 17, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment will release National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Freshman Year on DVD. The third installment into the Van Wilder series features a young Van follows in ...

The original was no classic — save, perhaps, in the opinion of select 11-year-old males — but you’d think it was a sacred text from the way “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of ...

Van Wilder seemed to raise his arm just shy of the line, while Cort, who had the inside line, was producing a dramatic bike throw.

As for 2022, Van Wilder will start racing in time trials that are perhaps not completely up his alley. However, even without setting the bar too high, he’s determined to have a go in those ITTs too.