Perhaps in this case the onlyĬracking up they did was bursting into humiliated tears.SEX/NUDITY 8 - A man and a woman go into an airplane bathroom, the woman pulls her blouse open (she is wearing a lace bra), hikes up her skirt (she is wearing stockings and her bare thighs and part of her buttocks are visible), and the man watches and pours hot sauce on his neck and chest the woman then licks it off, he pours more into his boxers, she makes her way below his waist (off-screen, presumably to perform oral sex on him) and the man begins to scream from the heat of the hot sauce. Surprisingly, pic does not sport the usual closing credit outtakes of Prod looks on the cheap side tech aspects are passable. Major studio, then anything really is possible! Upside: If a screenplay this wretched can get produced and released by a Still, the man principally to blame is David Gallagher, a formerĪctor turned first-time scenarist whose work here has a philosophical
Sitcom vet, helmer Mort Nathan, although his sole prior bigscreenĭirectorial effort was the equally execrable "Boat Trip." He or any other cast member can do with this material. "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle." There's not much Penn is a talented comic actor who was far better served in Shock to discover pic was mostly shot in Romania. Show" and student field trips to the Tower of London. What passes for local color is characters saying "jolly good Spring Break" notions of American campus life. "Animal House," "Girls Gone Wild," and "MTV Sensibility (and generic soundtracked rock songs) remains true to the Even the English setting is a misfire, since pic's Undiscriminating with its moronic double entendres and by-the-numbers There's even a reprise of thatįilm's showcase for involuntary human contact with dog sperm.īut if "Van Wilder" was formulaic but energetic andįitfully funny, this follow-up will only please the extremely Just about every plot element in "Rise" is identical to His girlfriend is the beautiful Charlotte (LaurenĬohan), who happens to be Taj's history teaching assistant and soon Percival), an Earl of Gray and the Fox & Hounds' guidingĪristocratic snob. Their principal nemesis in this pursuit is Pipp Everett (Daniel Renames the Barn) to a seemingly impossible Hasting Awards victory. Lot's fortunes around, even leading the Cock and Bulls (as he Hit on the head a lot belligerent Irish jock Seamus (Glen Barry) īespectacled nerd Gethin (Anthony Cozens) and Sadie (Holly Davidson), He's shunted off to "the Barn," a far flung, falling-downĭorm for "losers," including Simon (Steven Rathman), who gets Of the Fox and Hounds, Camford U.'s sniffiest residence house. Taj is immediately spurned by the "privileged snotbags"
That or any other number of sloppy script points.) (How did all of this get cross the Atlantic? Don't ask about (named Balzac), a golf cart and a bachelor-pad decor he inherited from Graduate studies, armed with self-confidence, party know-how, a bulldog Student desperate to experience the "pink taco" of interiorĪmerican collegiate femininity. Students including Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn), an Indian exchange Success, campus party king Van Wilder was a role model for many young In the first film, a decent theatrical and big home-release Theatrical release, however, which, in this case, should be brief. It hadn't already produced several even worse films. To mention awful) sequel might stain the honor of the Lampoon label if The four-years-in-the-making, badly recycled (not Taj" replicates every major and many minor elements from the 2002 The way "National Lampoon's Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Select 11-year-old males-but you'd think it was a sacred text from The original was no classic-save, perhaps, in the opinion of Reviewed at AMC Metreon, San Francisco, Nov. Sound editor (Dolby Digital), John Ross assistant director, Christopherīryson. Roope art director, John Welbanks costume designer Stephanie Collie Hubert Taczanowski editors, John Axness, Sherwood Jones music, Robertįolk music supervisor, Chris Violette production designer, Chris Screenplay, David Gallagher, based onĬharacters created by Brent Goldberg, David Wagner. Executive producers, Kal Penn, Daniel Spilo.ĭirected by Mort Nathan.
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