Van Wilder: Rise of the Taj
Busy saturday since I have a lot of work from office to do this week. Anyway we decide to catch National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Rise of the Taj for a break. From the promos we were quite excited to see what the movie was about (what with the Indian lead etc).
Unfortunately the movie didn't have much of a beginning, which was followed by a lack of buildup to any story ending with a childish fight between the protagonist and his nemesis. The movie was a low budget not-too-much-effort venture that showed. The script was amateurish barring a couple of good jokes. It was, in fact, another one of those cheesy 80s movie where ostracised nerds in a school make a new fraternity and beat the pompous top frat. I thought they stopped making movies like these back in the 80s!
Anyway, we got home and lo behold! The original Van Wilder 1 was on TV. Now this movie was so much better, despite being yet another campus comedy. Anyway, imdb.com revealed that the new Van Wilder was so bad that MGM didn't even do a press conference for it. Low point for Kal Penn after a good small role in Superman Returns?
Unfortunately the movie didn't have much of a beginning, which was followed by a lack of buildup to any story ending with a childish fight between the protagonist and his nemesis. The movie was a low budget not-too-much-effort venture that showed. The script was amateurish barring a couple of good jokes. It was, in fact, another one of those cheesy 80s movie where ostracised nerds in a school make a new fraternity and beat the pompous top frat. I thought they stopped making movies like these back in the 80s!
Anyway, we got home and lo behold! The original Van Wilder 1 was on TV. Now this movie was so much better, despite being yet another campus comedy. Anyway, imdb.com revealed that the new Van Wilder was so bad that MGM didn't even do a press conference for it. Low point for Kal Penn after a good small role in Superman Returns?
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