{"id":1505,"date":"2005-01-24T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T23:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1505.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"van-wilder-party-liaison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/01\/24\/van-wilder-party-liaison\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Van Wilder: Party Liaison<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is the big man around campus.  The girls want to date him, and the guys want to be him.  He&#8217;s been there for seven years, and he has no intention of ever leaving&#8211;until his father stops his tuition payments.  Faced with the prospect of being kicked out of the comfortable home he has made for himself, Van turns himself into a party organiser, charging money for arranging good times.<\/p>\n<p>As seems to be the requirement for comedies of this type, there is a love story driving the plot forward.  Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid) is the campus reporter trying to write a story on the enigmatic Wilder.  In doing so, the two get close, hit it off, yada yada, and Gwen has to decide between Van and her rich frat boy boyfriend.  I can&#8217;t say that this apect of the film worked for me.  Tara Reid is a pretty face, but she has all the charisma of a blob of silly putty.  Ryan Reynolds has enough charm and grin potential to make up for a lot, but he still can&#8217;t pull the film up much beyond average.  Funny, but forgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is the big man around campus. The girls want to date him, and the guys want to be him. He&#8217;s been there for seven years, and he has no intention of ever leaving&#8211;until his father stops his tuition payments. Faced with the prospect of being kicked out of the comfortable home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}