Is Van Wilder actually good?

Van Wilder sits in the 28.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.2% of them.

How does Van Wilder compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Van Wilder lands in the 31.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Van Wilder's score based on?

153 calibrated reviewers stand behind Van Wilder's score.

2002

global pct

28.2

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

Van Wilder

Name: Van Wilder
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 2002

Scored from 153 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

28.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

31.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

12.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

153 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Van Wilder is a beloved seventh-year senior at Coolidge College who throws legendary parties and helps fellow students with their problems, all to avoid the real world. When his father cuts off tuition, Van starts charging for his event-planning services, while an ambitious campus journalist named Gwen is assigned to write an expose on him and ends up falling for him instead.

Released in 2002, Van Wilder is a comedy and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

153 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 162 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.