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Van Wilder: Freshman Year
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Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 16. -
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Common Sense says
Campus sex-booze-drugs prequel bashes religion, sobriety.
Themes in this movie include: dating/crushes, growing up, revenge
updated 07.11.09
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 16 and Under
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What Parents Need to Know
About Van Wilder: Freshman Year
Parents need to know that this is a review of the unrated DVD and not the R-rated version from theaters. This youth-baiting sex comedy is centered on "fornication," partying, drugs, and humiliation-revenge as key parts of the college experience. Much female cleavage and toplessness, and even "abstaining" students (the girls, anyway) are practically nymphomaniacs when tempted. Religious types and military (with a few exceptions) are depicted as immoral right-wing hostiles, compared to the freewheeling title dude, whose anything-goes lifestyle is made to look heroic. Profanity is not nonstop but plentiful enough. Seeing other Van Wilder movies isn't necessary for following the, er, intricacies of the narrative.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the concept of the "Big Man on Campus" -- not terminology employed here, but the underlying motif of the whole Van Wilder movie series. An American icon going back for generations, the BMOC is the ultra-cool, smooth school-society leader and "fixer" who seems to get away with everything. Compare Van Wilder particularly with the more family-friendly Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Is Van the kind of guy that Ferris will grow up to become?
- Ask kids if they enjoy this kind of extreme-sex comedy and why. Do they believe that college is really like this?
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
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- Good role models
perfect
- I rate this title on for age 16 and give it
i liked but what do i know im a teen
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
New Van Wilder isn't any better than the first two
Van Wilder is back as a freshman in college and is the same as ever. This new Van Wilder movie is more or less, exactly the same as the first two Van Wilders. Van Wilder is introduced as a fun loving, young adult who parties without consequence. He meets a girl that he likes, then meets her up-tight boyfriend. Then the movie continues with pranks played by both Van and the jealous boyfriend on each other. Then, the boyfriend pulls a prank that seems to have gotten Van kicked out of school and rid of for good, until the climax where Van humiliates the ex-boyfriend and wins the girl. That's the basic outline of all three Van Wilder movies (with the exception of #2, where Van is replaced by Taj). If you didn't like the first two Van Wilders, then I guarantee, that you won't like this one. This new Van Wilder is no different. If you're a fan of the first two, then it's worth a rental, just to see all the pranks that were passed over by the creators of the first two. Parents should know that this Van Wilder is just as raunchy as the first two. There are bare breasts, bodily-function pranks, sex and sexual references galore, marijuana use, and moderate R-rated language. Van gets a bj during his graduation from high school speech. He sticks vibrators in girls dorm rooms (which they all use) and then tapes vibrators underneath a bench causing a group Christian girls to all have orgasms. A dog has humongous balls. A man thinking he's getting a "happy ending" to a massage, but instead gets a bj from a dog. Van teaches students about sex positions, using clothed, male and female demonstrators. Van walks into a cheerleaders locker room and trims all their shirts and a skirts. Two men are tied together and the one in the back gets an erection, and the list goes on and on. There are about 10 f-words, and a handful of s-words and other swear words. To parents, If you had no problems letting your kids see either of the first two Van Wilders, then this one is fine.
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| 50% | of parents say there are good role models |
| 50% | of parents say it gives kids positive messages |
| 50% | of parents say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking |
| 50% | of parents say the sexual behavior isn't age appropriate |
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