This is shocking only for its tepidness; except for some raunchy language, it's ready-made for basic cable.

| Jul 28, 2009

Penn sports little of the squirrelly charm evidenced by the original Van Wilder star, Ryan Reynolds.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 3, 2007

National Lampoon recycles countless collegiate comedies for this spin-off sequel.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Penn is capable of so much more.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2007

Granted, it's still ****, but with a sweeter odor than usual.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 8, 2006

Everything old is old again in this rickety extension of 2002's already rickety Van Wilder.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 6, 2006

Taj plays like a very bad combination of Revenge of the Nerds and Harry Potter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 4, 2006

Britain and India face off in National Lampoon's Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj, a strained attempt to transplant the American campus comedy to more uptight shores.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 4, 2006

Ill-conceived.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2006

Van Wilder 2's sense of numbing familiarity is not enhanced by director Mort Nathan's apparent unfamiliarity with the entire filmmaking process.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 4, 2006

Dude, where are my laughs?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 4, 2006

Crikey, it's enough to give even stupid comedy a bad name.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Dec 4, 2006

The four-years-in-the-making, badly recycled (not to mention awful) sequel might stain the honor of the Lampoon label if it hadn't already produced several even worse films.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2006

The Rise of Taj is relatively pointless in the scheme of things, but refreshing in what it (mostly) doesn't resort to for laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2006

Defines pedestrian filmmaking on every conceivable level, yet this embracement of mediocrity lends a surprising amount of legitimacy to its juvenile subject matter.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 2, 2006

Penn, who also takes an executive producer credit here, wanders around halfheartedly attempting to make something amusing out of the limp shock-comedy antics, but it all just goes in one innuendo and out the other.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2006

As the movie itself is only occasionally entertaining, I invented my own competition: picking scenes from other movies that the Van Wilder 2 screenwriters ripped off because they didn't have any of their own ideas.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 1, 2006

In this sequel to the 2002 campus comedy, Kal Penn spends much of the running time acting like Wilder I star Ryan Reynolds, which no actor with half a brain should be doing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 1, 2006

This is the sort of film that thinks calling a beer a 'libation' is a form of wit.

| Dec 1, 2006

While it is nowhere near as awful as I had expected it to be, there's very little here to get excited about, either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006