I can not put into words how great "Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj" is. I have always said that cinema is in an "artistic coma" right now, and that it is impossible to make a movie greater than "Chinatown" or "2001: A Space Odyssey," but this film just proved me wrong.
I have already sent a letter to the American Film Institute asking that they edit their "Top 100 Films" list and put this movie right above "Citizen Kane." If Fellini were alive today, he would cry upon watching this film. When the credits began to roll at the end of this movie, I felt like I could hear the ghosts of Stanley Kubrick, Frederico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, and D.W. Griffith standing up to applaud.
Watching this film is, in the words of Will Ferrel as James Lipton, like looking into the face of God, having him smile back at you and saying, "You are my finest creation."
I have already sent a letter to the American Film Institute asking that they edit their "Top 100 Films" list and put this movie right above "Citizen Kane." If Fellini were alive today, he would cry upon watching this film. When the credits began to roll at the end of this movie, I felt like I could hear the ghosts of Stanley Kubrick, Frederico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, and D.W. Griffith standing up to applaud.
Watching this film is, in the words of Will Ferrel as James Lipton, like looking into the face of God, having him smile back at you and saying, "You are my finest creation."