The lack of anything remotely funny is compounded by the lack of originality in "Van Wilder 2." Look for this lackluster movie to crowd the video shelves in no time.īaby-faced comic Ryan Reynolds channeled Chevy Chase in "Van Wilder," but the eponymous hero graduated from Coolidge College after seven year of lolly gagging. The two biggest jokes in "Van Wilder" consisted of the seamstress sight gag at the beginning and then the very vulgar prank where a rival fraternity gobble pastries spiked with the seminal fluids of a well-endowed bulldog. Like its predecessor, "Van Wilder 2" does feature a collegiate setting, several bare-breasted babes, binge drinking aplenty, risqué sexual epithets, with a scatological skit or two, but nothing like the crude shenanigans in the first movie. Not only does it lack Reynolds' charismatic poise, but also the uninspired plot rehashes hackneyed higher education humor that "Animal House," "Revenge of the Nerds," "Old School," and "Porky's" have already worn out. Everything that made Kal Penn of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" so memorable in the first "Van Wilder" has been sacrificed and Penn cannot rival Reynolds' comic timing. As far as gross-out comedies go, "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" (2002) was no masterpiece, but the Ryan Reynolds' original qualified as far funnier that its tardy and tedious sequel could ever imagine. Like "The Return of Josey Wales," "Iron Eagle 2," "Smoky and the Bandit 3," and "Jaws 3 & 4," the latest superficial sequel to show up, "Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj," substitutes a supporting character for the title protagonist and appears four years later. The worst kind of movie sequel promotes a supporting character to take over the lead role and takes longer than a couple of years to arrive in theatres. Reviewed by zardoz-13 1 / 10 Where Is Ryan Reynolds When We Really Need Him? But Taj decides to band the rejects into a new fraternity, Cocks & Bulls, which under his leadership challenges Pip's in the annual all-round excellence championship.
He falls victim to the haughty, aristocratic leading fraternity's president Pip's usual prank for 'commoners', landing in the derelict 'barn' with other 'social outcasts'. arrives as 'don' (teaching assistant) history at England's super-prestigious Cambridge. Having graduated in the US as Van Wilder disciple, now self-confident Taj Mahal.
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