This movie tries to follow the format of the original film. Thus, there are T&A galore, raunchy humor, bizarre characters, and wild parties. Bennett even kind of looks like Ryan Reynolds.

But generally, this flick doesn't do it as good as the original. Some of the jokes are kind of funny, but most are tepid or even complete knockoffs of old jokes I've heard before. While the original used eccentric characters and outlandish situations as springboards for humor, this one just goes deep into Bizzaro World (a college run by its ROTC director, who has posted "No Partying" and "No Kissing" signs, and can involuntarily enroll students in ROTC?).

Bennett decently mimicked Reynolds, but he didn't have the same charisma. Cavallari was charismatic, though, and I liked her as the love interest. Meredith Giangrande was downright sexy as forbidden- fruit Eve.

If you love being grossed out, this film ups the ante from the first one on the disgusting factor, although that's not particularly my thing. I do have to say, however, that the soft-porn aspects of this film are better than the original. There are scenes involving girls with vibrators, and a sex-ed class that illustrates intriguing positions (although with clothes on, but still),which may almost make you forget you're watching a comedy.

Van Wilder: Freshman Year is a comedy movie directed by Harvey Glazer and stars Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley and Jerry Shea. The movie is third installment in the Van Wilder series.

With a lousy storyline, purely predictable plot and cliche dialogues director has nothing to create and despite of few funny punches and one liners the movie majorly is a disappointment.

It seems that the makers are still in the hangover of the previous movies and those who had seen it's previous parts will agree that this movie has nothing new to offer as storyline is similar to the previous two.

Acting is average to below average as it seems that the characters were trying too hard to look comic or funny. Screenplay is mostly predictable and while watching the movie you will feel that you have already watched such scenes. Background music is average and climax is also very much predictable.

Apart from few funny punches and very few humorous scenes most of the movie is a major disappointment and has nothing new to offer. Could be watched one time if you are a fan of adult comedies.

It is kind of difficult to imagine why this movie came into being, and even more so to pretend that it is supposed to be a prequel to the original 2002 "Van Wilder" movie.

It is one of those types of movies where you just know that it is not going to be a grand experience, but you still sit down to watch it, hoping that there might be just a speck of entertainment to be had here.

"Van Wilder: Freshman Years" turned out to be a less than mediocre movie, and not an overly entertaining one either. And I will actually go as far as to say that you should definitely not view this as a prequel to the 2002 movie. Instead, view it as a stand-alone movie that has no ties to the 2002 movie.

This movie relies on cheap laughs, which are brought about mostly by humor well below the belt. But many times this humor just doesn't really come through properly. So it seems that it is the result of some half-hearted script writing.

The storyline in "Van Wilder: Freshman Years" is just not a very interesting or original one. It is all something that essentially has been seen before in similar late teen comedies. So don't count on originality being the key ingredient in this movie.

For a comedy of this type, then "Van Wilder: Freshman Years" was less than mediocre. And once you have seen it the first time, chances that you will return to watch it a second time are slim to none.