Product Details

• Actors: Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley, Nestor Aaron Absera
• Directors: Harvey Glazer
• Writers: Brent Goldberg, David Wagner, Todd McCullough
• Producers: Andrew Panay, Ari Newman, Darin Spillman, Kat Blasband Page
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001O0TWYA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,135 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Van Wilder: Freshman Year" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The man. The myth. The beginning. It’s freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder (Jonathan Bennett) is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and an uptight Dean (Kurt Fuller) rules the school. Van embarks on an epic crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin (Kristin Cavallari) and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction. No cheerleader will be left untouched and no keg will be left un-tapped in this hilarious prequel to the original!

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Franchise is Dead - Bury It, August 14, 2009

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Daniel G. Lebryk (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Van Wilder: Freshman Year - Unrated (DVD)

Van Wilder Freshman Year, wow what a major waste of film, studio time, and some pretty women.

National Lampoon's Van Wilder - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition), Ryan Reynolds, and Kal Penn - great chemistry, funny men together. Kal acted like he was Ryan Reynolds' straightman, but it may have been the other way around. The film was a bit dragged down with Tara Reid, but otherwise, funny movie. The second one, Van Wilder - The Rise of Taj, lost Ryan Reynolds, but we got to keep Kal Penn. Funny man on his own, fairly fresh off of Harold and Kumar. Rise of Taj, not a bad movie, not as funny as number one, but OK.

And then we get this movie, Freshman Year. Ouch. Both stars are gone. At first it seems like the Asian guy will take the place of Kal Penn as Van Wilder's gopher. But nope, after a while it becomes clear, the new Van Wilder, Johathan Bennet, will carry all the jokes. Ouch, he's not funny. Although those eyebrows were kind of extra thick, he had a shot at doing some Groucho imitations.

This movie has followed the American Pie path - number one was excellent. Number two was OK. Number three the wedding, was less good. And finally number four was just downright awful, not a single original star was there. At least American Pie tried to flow with the original story, the fourth one was Stifler's younger brother. Van Wilder: Freshman Year, just made no sense at all.

Why in the world did I rate this movie two stars? Well, the women they found for this movie were very pretty. There was a level of jiggle in this film that was actually a lot better than either of the first two editions. So, for the most base reasons, it gets an extra star.

The DVD is chock full 'o bonus features. None of which are really worth watching. There's a bonus film called Decatur that is supposed to be like the Hills. Its just plain boring (well I guess, its just like the Hills, boring). Pretty sure Decatur is named for a suburb of Atlanta (Freshman Year was supposed to be in Georgia). There's isn't really any more nudity in the bonus features. There's a piece about the dog, everyone complaining about how he got better treatment than the people. All total, there is about 10 or so bonus features.

One other reason for the slightly higher rating - the soundtrack is actually pretty decent. The movie opens with the Offspring, You're Gonna Go Far Kid. I Ran performed by Bowling For Soup. And Something Corporate by Cavanaugh Park. Three decent songs.

The movie is actually very long, one hour thirty eight minutes theatrical release, unrated is one hour forty minutes. So there's two minutes of something extra. Honestly, it's not likely to be more nudity. Its probably a set of cruder jokes they didn't want to send to the MPAA for fear of an NC-17. It could also be one of the simulated sex scenes where the guy fakes completing the act. None of which are worth getting excited about. The movie is well over 20 minutes too long as it stands.

Yeah, not a really good movie. The jokes are bad. The girls are pretty.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great!!!, January 1, 2012

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This review is from: Van Wilder: Freshman Year - Unrated (DVD)

Great film with classic scenes I love it!!!!!!My Buddy Shaad who is an actor/musician is in this movie, and now his younger brother Rahmad Hawkins is budding in films, Great guys!!!! We love Kristin and the cheerleaders! AWESOME

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, December 10, 2011

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Scott V. Kelly "White Tiger" (Colorado Springs, CO, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Van Wilder: Freshman Year - Unrated (DVD)

Hadn't seen a aVan Wilder movie before. This movie lived up to the reputations that many other like movies have set.