Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictNot Woke

12%

Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj2006

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What We Think

‘Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj’ is definitely not woke. If anything, its tone and content would probably get it canceled these days. Expect low-brow humor over any modern-day messaging.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

The film is a raunchy college comedy largely focused on party antics, slapstick, and stereotypes. There’s little evidence of forced identity politics, diverse characters being flawless, or narrative sacrificed for ideology. In fact, any attempts at diversity or inclusion are dealt with in broad, unserious comedic strokes.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

While the film pokes fun at all sorts of characters and institutions, it does so in the tradition of gross-out comedies. Masculinity is stereotyped but isn’t villainized, and there are no meaningful attempts to undermine faith, family, or cultural traditions beyond frat-level humor.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Not Woke

What is this?

If anything, the movie is gleefully immature, tending toward political incorrectness rather than any modern ideological uniformity. There are no woke moral lectures or attempts to ridicule ‘non-woke’ points of view, just old-school, for-better-or-worse, comedy stereotypes.

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