... but fails miserably!!! Much too uneven. Maybe they should have hired John Hughes to inject some charm into the script. Saw this the first week it opened, and still want my money back. When I left the theatre, I told my girlfriend that they should have called this movie "John Hughes Didn't Write This".
Everyone is entitled to their opinion... and in mine, this film blows.
"The key is, you've got to be crazy to maintain your sanity"
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I can't help but wonder why you are posting now on the forum of a movie you saw 7 years ago and think that sucked.
shareAfter the passing of Mr. Hughes, I revisted a bunch of his masterpieces. Then I remembered being infuriated following the "Van Wilder" experience. So, I felt obligated to express sentiments regarding my distaste for the film. If you'll notice, the National Lampoon's franchise took a pretty hefty nose-dive when Hughes stopped writing for them, ie every straight to DVD clunker that has been released in the last ten years.
"The key is, you've got to be crazy to maintain your sanity"
mr skandl -
I only saw Van Wilder recently & I thought it was lovely - it's got a very humane message hiding under layers of gross-out stuff and subverts stereotypes nicely.
Whether it stands the test of time like John Hughes'(of blessed memory)little masterpieces, remains to be seen.
Ryan Reynolds was cracking, as well as easy on the eye. And I'm nearly 50.
Animal House is great. Ditto Ferris Bueller.
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IMO; Animal House is a classic, Ferris Bueller is good but overrated, and Van Wilder falls somewhere in between, though closer to Animal House.
shareUnlike Ferris Beuller I found this one worth seeing again.
shareYeah, you're entitled to your opinion. But you're trying to compare a college movie about someone who doesn't want to leave school and a high school movie about someone who doesn't want to go to school. Completely different stories.
Would Ryan Reynolds have made a good Ferris Bueller? Nope. Would Matthew Broderick made a good Van Wilder? Hell no! Are both films good in their own right? Yes.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a classic. Van Wilder feels timeless. Both movies are good for their audiences.
And I don't see any similarity between these movies and I don't see how you can say Van Wilder tries to be Ferris Bueller's Day off. It doesn't even come close to trying.
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