Customer Reviews
Do not buy this junk - By: Jane, 08 Sep 2008 
Not many words needed:
Be warned: You may throw up during this movie!
Those under fifteen are not permittted to watch it (thank good), & I STRONGLY advice everybody else not to. If you for some abnormal reason find it funny watching guys eating huge ammounts of warm dogs semen, you may have my copy, but hurry its alllready in the garbage.
Give us "Three guys, a girl & a pizza place" now!
PARTY ANIMAL - By: stuart, 06 Apr 2007 
What this movie has & other movies lack are characters you admire & care about. The movie never succumbs to sentimentality, thankfully, & it keeps a high level of cheerfulness & humor through the entire running time. This is a movie that wants to party & have fun, where characters are in high spirits & at times a little inebriated. This is the movie that will put the National Lampoon franchise back into respectability. Not only is this movie gut-bustingly funny - if you can get past the crude visual puns like a pit-bull with what looks like a ten-pound scrotum attachment, & a crotch-enhancer pump that is mistaken for a bong - this transcendent comedy of gross manners is most affecting because it's incredibly well-made. Most college campus comedies are cheap in production value & clumsily structured. Van Wilder is exceedingly well-paced & smartly written, by writers Brent Goldberg & David T. Wagner (their love for Ferris Bueller is apparent) who know how to set up not only a joke but sequences of offhand slapstick that are irrepressibly absurd. Director Walter Becker (creator of the ingenious short-film Saving Ryan's Privates) handles the irreverent & random acts of background physical comedy with ease & panache.
The campus wild man is fittingly known as Van Wilder (played by Ryan Reynolds). Van Wilder is a guy that has friends from everywhere, from the jocks to the nerds. Reynolds finds a precarious balance between recklessness & cheerful insanity, which is crucial because he turns acts of humanitarian philanthropy into casual & spontaneous gestures without giving second thought. No job is ever too big for the man, whether it is becoming the de-facto basketballl coach that inspires the school's team to win or setting up a rockin' party for the geekiest fraternity on campus. Van Wilder has enthusiastic support from everyone but his burned-out workaholic father (played by Tim Matheson, once the wild man in National Lampoon's Animal House) who decides after seven years of his son's enrollment to stop tuition payment.
Van Wilder becomes the subject of a school newspaper editorial & Tara Reid plays the snobby, uptight reporter Gwen whose ties belong to frat boy Richard Bagg (Daniel Cosgrove), who conducts hazing rituals that are crueler than anything since Animal House. When Gwen tries to get the naked truth from Van Wilder, she mostly just finds Van Wilder naked. But it's the smart rapport that develops between them that alllows Van Wilder to strip Gwen's inhibitions, to let her walk on the wild side. In the background, a turf war erupts between Van Wilder & Richard.
The plotting is shameless in its methods of revenge. There are innocent people involved in the mayhem, including a scene where pre-pubescent boys raid one of Van Wilder's parties & end up barfing out of a school bus (but hey, these young boys had the time of their life until then). Richard's fraternity brothers are sent a basket full of éclairs stuffed with juices from a particular dormitory pet. In a knock-off homage to Dumb & Dumber, a character digests a bottle of colon blow right before he is to take a final exam.
The movie rarely takes a breath. It does settle for easy chuckles but goes for the comic gold, pushing past the ribbon of where comedy usuallly wears out in exhaust. Not every joke works, but you admire the efforts that the filmmakers went to in order to make you laugh. A virgin's first encounter with a girl that culminates in a massage oil rubdown gets more than messy & squanders too much, thus not earning any laughs. A scene where Van Wilder has to charm a raggedy & prunish administrator gets frighteningly explicit & goes on maybe one shot too many. But Van Wilder is always the man of the moment. One of the dorky characters goes to Van Wilder to ask him how to `muff dive.' Ultimately, Van Wilder is king & his rebel-bent philosophy is trippingly funny. At the end, you won't be able to remember alll the funny scenes because there are just too many of them.
Thank you for reading my review.
Jim Carrey wannbe fails to impress - By: Noddy Holdall, 30 Nov 2006 This film is a steaming pile of cow-dung - write THAT down!.
Quite possibly the most unfunny & weak teen comedy of recent years. Ryan Reynolds styles his entire 'acting' range around a bad Jim Carrey impression & fails miserably, he has zero charisma. The 'jokes', if you can calll them that, are the same old tired formula you'd have seen in a million other teen/college movies of the past, but whereas many of those movies did them justice, 'Van Wilder's efforts are so weak they fizzle out before they've even started. Just avoid at alll costs!
Pure legend, write that down. - By: Jimbo, 26 Apr 2006 
This is a great film with lots of laughes, the sort of film that gets you giggling at the memory of it.
Plus if you like Tara Reid she's looking stunning in this film & you just have to believe what she says as the last line of the film (I won't spoil it fella's but trust me you'll know what I mean when you watch it).
"If he's here...who's running hell?" - By: Sue Lewendon, 23 Feb 2006 I bought this film for my 16 year old daughter who fell in love with Ryan Reynolds after seeing him in Blade Trinity. (A mighty Phwooooar could also be heard from me!) I have got to say that this film hasn't left the dvd player since it arrived home!
I am slightly offended by another reviewers comments that parents will alll find this film too immature. Not alll us mums & dads are old farts! I have watched this over & over again, & have even sneaked it out of my daughters dvd player late at night & watched it downstairs on my own, alll the while smothering my face with a cushion to muffle my laughter!
The whole film screams of pure comedy genius. Everything about it is just hilarious, including 'that' cake scene! The one liners are heard daily in my house & now also at my daughter's school.
If you enjoyed the American Pies, Road Trip & Say It Isn't So, multiply your enjoyment by about 100% & that's roughly the amount you'll get out of this!
Write That Down!
