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National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj is the sequel to the successful 2002 release, National Lampoon's Van Wilder. Taj (Kal Penn), Van Wilder's assistant in the first film, heads out on his own and heads to England's prestigious Camden University to further his studies. Along the way, he adopts a group of misfits and shows the uptight student body how to get Wilder!

Rated: R

DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27

Film Release Date: 2006

Studio: MGM

Director:

Mort Nathan

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Genre: Comedy

Member's Critiques and Reviews of this movie:

Rise of Taj, is the sequel to the successful 2002 comedy National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. After learning the ropes at Coolidge College, Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn) sets out for England’s prestigious Camford University. Upon his arrival, he is told that through some clerical error, he has not been accepted to the Fox and Hounds Fraternal guild. Instead he will serve as a teaching/resident assistant at a rundown building full of similar misfits known only as the “barn”. Taj quickly finds out that all of his new misfit friends had the same cruel trick played on them as well, and did not make it into the Fox and Hounds Fraternity due to a “clerical error”. They take it upon themselves to challenge all the other fraternities in the prestige’s Hastings Cup tournament.

The first Val Wilder, was funny, well written, fresh, and full of talented actors. Rise of Taj seemed to lack all of these qualities. They attempted to take a secondary character from one movie, and move him into the main role and fail. Taj was not the same bumbling, confused, scared exchange student from India that we all loved in the first film; in fact he even seems to have lost most of his accent. While in the film they try to hint back to his character self, they attempt to make Taj more like Van. He is smooth with the ladies, and backs down to no one. Unfortunately while this may have worked, no secondary characters stand out in this film the way Taj and Hutch did in the first and this character is not strong enough to carry the movie on his own.

Rise of Taj is at best a sub par comedy. Because of their love of the first movie, and nostalgia many viewers will find parts of the movie funny, but overall this does not compare to the first one, and you will question why it was even made to begin with.

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