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Since college gives you the best years of your life, why
leave? Unfortunately, Van Wilder's father thinks it's time,
so he pulls the plug on Van and his party-animal antics. Unless
Van can raise enough cash, he won't even be able to graduate...
This
film, the latest in the "gross-out teen comedy" genre, contains
one of the most revolting scenes - if not the most
revolting - that I have ever witnessed in a movie. It involves
a box of cream cakes and copious amounts of fresh canine semen.
Let's just say that I'll never be able to look at a cream
horn in quite the same way again!
In
some other respects, Van Wilder: Party Liaison is vomit-inducing
in an entirely different way. Rather like the successful American
Pie, which Momentum is extremely keen to compare it to,
this intentionally offensive offering ultimately proves to
have a romantic heart of gold.
When
the dedicated college newspaper reporter Gwen Pearson (Tara
Reid, from the aforementioned American Pie) is assigned
to interview Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds), she takes an immediate
dislike to his light-hearted attitude to life. From that point
onwards, you just know that these two characters are destined
to end up together, and that they'll both learn something
from the experience. Ahhhh! Gwen discovers that Van is actually
a very considerate soul, who takes care of loveless nerds
and poorly fellow students alike, while Van learns to apply
himself at his classes. There are some unnecessarily mushy
montage sequences and musical accompaniments along the way.
Nevertheless, the movie raises a fair few chuckles, most of
which revolve around the well-deserved practical jokes that
are played on Gwen's snobby, self-obsessed, frat-house fiancé,
Richard (Daniel Cosgrove). Nothing tremendously original,
but what the hell?
Fans
of the offbeat '80s detective show Moonlighting should
watch out for a couple of brief appearances by Curtis (Herbert
Viola) Armstrong as a campus cop.
College-based
comedy has been wilder than this - take National Lampoon's
Animal House, for example - but Van Wilder is still
worth watching.
Chris
Clarkson
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