the bad kind of movie sequel promote a support character to take over the lead role and take long than a couple of year to arrive in theatre . like the return of josey wale and iron eagle 2 and smoky and the bandit 3 and and jaw 3 and 4 and the late superficial sequel to show up and van wild 2 represent the rise of taj and substitute a supporting character for the title protagonist and appear four year later . as far a gross out comedy go and national lampoon van wilder ( 2002 ) be no masterpiece and but the ryan reynolds original qualify a far funny that it tardy and tedious sequel could ever imagine . everything that make kal penn of harold and kumar go to white castle so memorable in the first van wilder have be sacrifice and penn can not rival reynolds comic timing . not only do it lack reynolds charismatic poise and but also the uninspired plot rehash hackneyed high education humor that animal house and revenge of the nerd and old school and and porky have already wear out . like it predecessor and van wilder 2 do feature a collegiate setting and several bare breast babe and binge drinking aplenty and risqué sexual epithet and with a scatological skit or two and but nothing like the crude shenanigan in the first movie . the two big joke in van wilder consist of the seamstress sight gag at the beginning and then the very vulgar prank where a rival fraternity gobble pastry spike with the seminal fluid of a well endow bulldog . the lack of anything remotely funny be compound by the lack of originality in van wilder 2. look for this lackluster movie to crowd the video shelf in no time . baby face comic ryan reynolds channel chevy chase in van wilder and but the eponymous hero graduate from coolidge college after seven year of lolly gag . a van wilder indian protégé taj mahal badalandabad and kal penn have not only step into his mentor shoe but also he have step into something infinitely worse a movie of unmitigated mediocrity . nobody quite know how to pronounce taj family name in van wilder 2 and the joke generate few laugh with each instance . freshman scenarist david draw gallagher and who have act in a number of television show and should forsake the pen and have forge far few offensive gag than his rowdy predecessor in his cookie cutter screenplay . when van wilder 2 open and taj have graduate from coolidge college and have transfer to merry ole england . our hero set out to get his master degree at a stodgy cambridge like university call camford and follow in his father footstep a a lothario . taj learn quickly that the native be none too receptive to his desire to join their rank in the elite fox and hound fraternity . pipp everett and the earl of grey ( david percival of the tv series sinchronicity ) and the stick up man in charge of the fox and hound and informs poor taj that he have be reject on a technicality . search for somewhere else to fit in and taj take the job of advise a minor fraternity make up entirely of misfit represent seamus ( glen barry ) and a fiery irish rugby player while sadie ( holly davidson ) a tough female boozer while simon ( anthony cozen ) a bean pole genius and and gethin ( steve rathman ) a well endow but shy guy . taj name the new fraternity the cock and bull . actually and this be about as dare a van wilder 2 get . in a dastardly attempt to put upstart taj and his new friend in their ignoble place and pipp challenge our hero to a high stake university competition for the prestigious camford cup and an annual academic and social and and athletic contest between fraternity . nothing inventive in the way of amuse sight gag or grandiose gross out joke emerges from this stale and substandard sequel . director mort nathan and who helm the laborious cuba gooding and jr. comedy boat trip and make the least of every comic opportunity in this prudish 95 minute potboiler . indeed and nathan and gallagher revert to the general plot of the original without break new ground . when the snooty villains realize that theyre go to lose the cup that the fox and hound fraternity have never forfeit and they plant incriminate evidence in the cock and bull frat house . consequently and dotty camford dean ( veteran british tv actor roger hammond ) have no choice but to expel taj and his pal . taj admits that he steal the test material so that his pal can continue to compete in the tournament . predictably and van wilder 2 allow our oddball hero to triumph over the fox and hound without develop any suspense . aside from taj and the only character leave over from the original van wilder be van wilder pet bulldog . mind you and national lampoon usually scrap the bottom of a barrel of monkey for it college comedy and and van wilder 2 prove no exception . unlike the witty original and van wilder 2 boast no cameo from previous national lampoon movie cast member . kal penn should have be work on a harold and kumar sequel rather than this infantile idiocy . van wilder 2 rank a a forgettable follow up to the original with a modicum of witty line .