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National Lampoon’s Van Wilder

This dreadful piece of dreck, about a perpetual big man on campus (Ryan Reynolds) in his seventh academic year, arrived within two months of fellow collegiate comedies Slackers and Sorority Boys, meaning Hollywood was pumping out lame teen vehicles faster than I could dismiss them. Still, here goes: If you added up the good jokes in all three of the aforementioned films, you’d still be a few laughs shy of a funeral. Now, if you totaled the number of gags involving bodily fluids …

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