What is really surprising here is the sweet and tender romance between Val and Gwen.
Gwen, however, is attached the predictable asshole boyfriend Richard Bagg, a star student who is on his way to med school. He immediately begins pursuing her – in fact, it seems like love at first sight for him. Van stumbles, however, when star reporter for the student newspaper Gwendolyn Pearson is assigned to write a series of articles on him. In the meantime, he even has time to try to help his bumbling assistant, exchange student Taj from India, to achieve his dream of losing his virginity. Life is too short for worrying over things, he’d say, so he begins charging money for his parties and such. When his annoyed father finally cuts off funding for Van’s continuous education, Van isn’t too concerned. Instead, he generally throws parties, arranges fundraising spectacles for various school bodies and associations, motivates those who are down, and even provides medication for the college kids’ various STDs. Much to the exasperation of Professor McDougal and several other educators, Van doesn’t seem to want to graduate at all. Supposedly “loosely” based on comedian Bert Kreischer’s exploits in college, this one introduces Vance Wilder Jr who spent the last six years in college generally being everyone’s best friend.
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And, indeed, “decent” describes this movie for the most part.
How do you make a parody of over-the-top teen sex comedies? It will be hard to make fun of movies that are already making fun of themselves, so National Lampoon’s Van Wilder takes a pretty interesting approach: it opted to become a pretty decent movie instead. Main cast: Ryan Reynolds (Vance “Van” Wilder Jr), Tara Reid (Gwendolyn “Gwen” Pearson), Kal Penn (Taj Mahal Badalandabad), Paul Gleason (Professor McDougal), Daniel Cosgrove (Richard “Dick” Bagg), Teck Holmes (Hutch), Emily Rutherford (Jeannie), and Tim Matheson (Vance Wilder Sr)