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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VAN WILDER

What You Need To Know:

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VAN WILDER is about an easy-going campus prankster at Coolidge College. Van Wilder’s rich father finds out that his son has spent seven years in college without graduating, so he cuts off Van’s tuition money. Van tries a couple schemes to earn the money, including topless tutoring, until he discovers that people will pay him to throw exciting college parties. A beautiful female student journalist, Gwen, is ordered to do a story on Van. Slowly, Van begins to win her heart, but this enrages her conceited fraternity boyfriend. Meanwhile, Gwen wonders if Van can ever be serious enough for a long-term relationship.

Following in the footsteps of ANIMAL HOUSE, VAN WILDER is filled with strong sexual immorality, foul language and lots of gross humor about bodily functions. All of this abhorrent content becomes truly weird when VAN WILDER starts inserting some moral elements within its juvenile campus hijinks. Van even makes the Sign of the Cross before taking an important test, which he passes. Despite the movie’s abhorrent content, Ryan Reynolds is charming enough in the title role that it would be good to see him in a more positive comic venue.

Content:

(PaPaPa, Ho, B, C, LLL, V, SSS, NN, AA, DD, MM) Strong pagan worldview with a couple homosexual elements, some moral elements, including reconciliation between father and son, and protagonist makes the Sign of the Cross before taking an important college test, and he passes; at least 43 obscenities (including 10 or so “f” words), one strong profanity, seven light profanities, vomiting, and lots of gross bathroom and bodily humor; slapstick violence such as college student tricks faculty member into ramming into campus guard’s small vehicle, causing guard to spill milkshake all over himself; depicted fornication, implied oral sex, implied masturbation, and many other sexual references, some more crude than others; upper female nudity, rear male nudity and scenes of implied nudity; alcohol use, drunkenness and underage drinking; smoking and marijuana use; and, lying, college pranks, skipping classes, and villainous college students sneak elementary schoolchildren into booze party to frame protagonist.

More Detail:

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VAN WILDER is about an easy-going campus prankster at Coolidge College. Van Wilder’s rich father finds out that his son has spent seven years in college without graduating, so he cuts off Van’s tuition money. Van tries a couple schemes to earn the money, including topless tutoring, until he discovers that people will pay him to throw exciting college parties. A beautiful female student journalist, Gwen, is ordered to do a story on Van. Slowly, Van begins to win her heart, but this enrages her conceited fraternity boyfriend. Meanwhile, Gwen wonders if Van can ever be serious enough for a long-term relationship.

Following in the footsteps of ANIMAL HOUSE, VAN WILDER is filled with strong sexual immorality, foul language and lots of gross humor about bodily functions. All of this abhorrent content becomes truly weird when VAN WILDER starts inserting some moral elements within its juvenile campus hijinks. Van even makes the Sign of the Cross before taking an important test, which he passes. Despite the movie’s abhorrent content, Ryan Reynolds is charming enough in the title role that it would be good to see him in a more positive comic venue.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.