Van Wilder: Freshman Year

Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) is an American college comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Harvey Glazer, it stars Jonathan Bennett as Van Wilder arriving for his first semester at Coolidge College — serving as a prequel to the original Van Wilder with Ryan Reynolds.

The campus is locked down by a strict dean, and nearly every woman on the quad has taken a vow of chastity. Van takes this as a personal challenge. His twin goals: win over the most wanted girl on campus, Kaitlin, and drag the student body out of its joyless funk. The cast has fully turned over from the earlier films, but the formula stays the same.

If the original series was your kind of dumb-fun comfort viewing, this prequel delivers more of it without reinventing anything. Stream Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) online on iFILM.