Plot
Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Release Year: 2006
Rating: 4.3/10 (11,424 voted)
Critic's Score: 21/100
Director:
Mort Nathan
Stars: Kal Penn, Lauren Cohan, Daniel Percival
Storyline Hvaing graduated in the US as Van Wilder disciple, now self-confident Taj Mahal. arrives as 'don' (teaching assistant) history at England's super-prestigious Cambridge. He falls victim to the haughty, aristocratic leading fraternity's aristocratic president Pip's usual prank for 'commoners', landing in the derelict 'barn' with other 'social outcasts'. But Taj decides to band the rejects into a new fraternity, Cocks & Bulls, which under his leadership challenges Pip's in the annual all-round excellence championship.
Writers: David Drew Gallagher, Brent Goldberg
Cast: Kal Penn
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Taj
Lauren Cohan
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Charlotte
Daniel Percival
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Pip
Glen Barry
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Seamus
Anthony Cozens
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Gethin
Steven Rathman
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Simon
Holly Davidson
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Sadie
Tom Davey
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Percy
William de Coverly
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Roger
Beth Steel
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Penelope
Amy Steel
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Alexandra
Jonathan Cecil
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Provost Cunningham
Roger Hammond
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Camford Dean
Kulvinder Ghir
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Taj's Father
Shobu Kapoor
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Taj's Mother
Opening Weekend: $2,313,372
(USA)
(3 December 2006)
(1979 Screens)
Gross: $5,821,159
(Worldwide)
(8 April 2007)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The name Camford is a cross between the names Cambridge and Oxford, the two most prestigious universities in England. This is a reversal of the name Oxbridge which was created by Virginia Woolf.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Taj approaches the golf cart he received from Van Wilder, he removes a letter from the front and there is no window on the front of the cart. However, for the rest of the movie there is a window on the front of the cart.
Quotes: Sadie:
[staring at Simon's 11 inches]
I'm surprised you don't get out more.
User Review
Don't watch this
Rating: 1/10
First let me start by saying I was a huge Van Wilder fan and enjoy all
of Kal Penn's work, be it in Van Wilder, Harold & Kumar, and even
American Desi. This film, however, was a disaster. The plot is
unimaginative; Taj arrives in a British university and leads a misfit
group of losers against a wealthy, socially elite house in an
intra-fraternal competition. The object of Taj's affection
unfortunately winds up being the girlfriend of his biggest antagonist,
the head of the rival fraternity house (see the original Van Wilder for
a blatantly similar romantic situation).
This just wasn't funny at all. I crack up pretty easily and laughed
less than 5 or 6 times during an hour an a half. And even then, I was
forcing it just because I felt like I forked down $10, and if I didn't
even laugh once, I'd have been bamboozled of my money. The only
redeeming scenes are those featuring Taj's parents, who are in the film
for less than 10 minutes and managed to pull my rating from a 1 to a 2.
Every other joke was corny, unfunny, and otherwise dull. The writing
and directing were so uninspired that it was actually painful to watch
this movie. The problem with this film was half conceptual too, since
Taj was only funny in Van Wilder in the limited doses we got. Goofy
Indian accents aren't enough to carry an hour and a half long poorly
written train wreck, and that's what we saw here.
The thing that really bothered me was that I could feel Kal Penn's
career dying before my eyes. I really don't know how anyone who read
this script could agree to do it, especially him, because he was the
only actor with a future in this movie. He had at least moderate buzz
going for him after a string of decent performances, and then releases
this nonsense. I can only hope that movie studios will forgive him,
because it was difficult to watch this.
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