![]() ![]() Executive producers, Kal Penn, Daniel Spilo. Levy, Andrew Panay, Elie Samaha, Natan Zahavi. National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of TajĪn MGM release of an MGM Pictures and Bauer Martinez Entertainment presentation of a Tapestry Films production in association with Myriad Pictures. It is no shock to discover pic was mostly shot in Romania. What passes for local color is characters saying “jolly good show” and student field trips to the Tower of London. Even the English setting is a misfire, since pic’s sensibility (and generic soundtracked rock songs) remains true to the “Animal House,” “Girls Gone Wild,” and “MTV Spring Break” notions of American campus life. ![]() There’s even a reprise of that film’s showcase for involuntary human contact with dog sperm.īut if “Van Wilder” was formulaic but energetic and fitfully funny, this followup will only please the extremely undiscriminating with its moronic double entendres and by-the-numbers situations. ![]() Just about every plot element in “Rise” is identical to that in “Van” the First. His girlfriend is the beautiful Charlotte (Lauren Cohan), who happens to be Taj’s history teaching assistant and soon is wooed by Taj. Their principal nemesis in this pursuit is Pipp Everett (Daniel Percival), an Earl of Gray and the Fox & Hounds’ guiding aristocratic snob. Naturally, Taj vows to turn this sorry lot’s fortunes around, even leading the Cock and Bulls (as he renames the Farm) to a seemingly impossible Hasting Awards victory. He’s shunted off to “The Barn,” a far-flung, falling-down dorm for “losers,” including Simon (Steven Rathman), who gets hit on the head a lot belligerent Irish jock Seamus (Glen Barry) bespectacled nerd Gethin (Anthony Cozens) and Sadie (Holly Davidson), who has very large breasts. Taj is immediately spurned by the “privileged snotbags” of the Fox and Hounds, Camford U.’s sniffiest residence house. (How did all of this get cross the Atlantic? Don’t ask about that or any other number of sloppy script points.) Now Taj is on his way to England for graduate studies, armed with self-confidence, party know-how, a bulldog (named Balzac), a golf cart and a bachelor-pad decor he inherited from Van. In the first film, a decent theatrical and big home-release success, campus party king Van Wilder was a role model for many young students including Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn), an Indian exchange student desperate to experience the “pink taco” of interior American collegiate femininity. ![]()
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