R, a few scenes of nudity, some strong sexuality, abundant vulgarity and profanity.
NATIONAL LAMPOON VAN WILDER THE RISE OF TAJ MOVIE
The rest of the movie just draws pictures of boobies on the envelope and tries to pass it off as comedy. That’s the one moment that actually pushes the envelope. I may have winced audibly once or twice, though, particularly during the scene (ripped off from the first “Van Wilder”) in which a dog’s sexual behavior is graphically depicted. (Answer: more than a dozen, but I lost count.) He did not write “The Rise of Taj,” however those honors went to one Drew David Gallagher, a sometime-actor with no previous writing experience who evidently penned this screenplay as part of a contest to see how many euphemisms he could think of for female genitalia. The film was directed by Mort Nathan, a hack writer whose only prior directing credit was - shudder - “Boat Trip.” Surely no person who endured that disaster can enter “The Rise of Taj” without trepidation. And wouldn’t you know it, Taj has a few tricks up his sleeve to cut those pompous Fox & Hound twits down to size!! Ha-ha! Wouldn’t you know it, Pipp’s girlfriend, Charlotte (Lauren Cohan), starts to fall for Taj, which makes the rivalry even more fierce. There’s a snooty fraternity called the Fox & Hounds, led by smarmy jerk Pipp Everett (Daniel Percival), and they intend to humiliate Taj’s house in the school-wide Hastings Cup competition.
They are all desperately in need of help in becoming cool and confident, so it’s Van Wilder to the rescue! Er, Van Wilder, as learned and now repeated by Taj! There are just four students under his tutelage: Seamus (Glen Barry) the angry Irish kid, Gethin (Anthony Cozens) the nerd, Simon (Steven Rathman) the silent video-gamer, and Sadie (Holly Davidson) the cockney tramp. at a ramshackle residence hall known as the Barn. Taj is now a grad student at England’s Camford University, where he’s been made R.A. Van (played by Ryan Reynolds in the original) does not appear in the sequel, but his wisdom is often referred to. Taj (Kal Penn), an Indian-American student, was a protege of supreme slacker Van Wilder back at Coolidge College in the first “Van Wilder” film. But this one goes for long stretches without even TRYING to be funny, apparently content to let its half-baked characters wander around unsupervised while the audience waits impatiently for the next sperm joke. You can usually count on these things to at least be lively and madcap, if not actually entertaining. I was a little surprised, though, at how lackadaisical it is. Van Wilder protege Taj Badalandabad (Kal Penn) heads to Englands prestigious Camden University to further his studies and cement his burgeoning reputation. Sure enough, “The Rise of Taj” is worthless, a completely desperate and mindless exercise in juvenility. (Imagine “Superman II: The Adventures of Jimmy Olsen” or “Toy Story II: The Wrath of Little Bo Peep.”) And “The Rise of Taj” hints that this sequel is focusing on a minor character from the first movie - another harbinger of doom. The fact that it’s a sequel to 2002’s “Van Wilder” is another gloomy sign, since sequels to bad movies are usually just as bad, if not worse. The “National Lampoon” part means it will be awful, as everything released under that label since “Christmas Vacation” (in 1989!) has totally blown. The original was no classic-save, perhaps, in the opinion of select 11-year-old males-but youd think it was a sacred text from the way 'National Lampoons Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj' replicates every major and many minor elements from the 2002 Ryan Reynolds stirrer. “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj” is a movie we can pretty much review based on its title alone. Army marching into their tiny countries and forcing them to watch films that were excreted from the cancerous bowels of bloated, semi-literate Southern Californians.Sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover.
Maybe, after that, the world will no longer live in fear of the U.S. I urge you and everyone in the nation to see this so that Hollywood will make more films of this caliber, thus destroying the entire movie industry and leading to the destruction of the American economy. Only here, its clear that absolutely no one had a good time. This film is to true comedy as a Civil War re-creation societys ∻attle of Gettysburg is to the real Battle of Gettysburg. Its as though the producers were utterly uninterested in entertainment, and instead opted for accuracy of representation. Ostensibly a Crazy College Comedy, VW2 contains every single clichéd character, shelf-worn set piece and contrived moment of every other college comedy, only without the laughs.
Id like to say that this is the worst film Ive ever seen, except that it feels more like a re-enactment of the worst film Ive ever seen.
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