I'll be honest, I can't compare it to the the first two, as this is the first one I've seen. But in all honesty, it was a great movie. I enjoyed it very much. If you are looking for a lot of laughs, especially in the first ten minutes, this movie truly delivers.I just finished watching it, and it is good enough for a second time. It also uses great music as well. I had never heard of any of the actors until I saw this movie,and again, only seen the one, but it was great, not amazing, but great. As were the actors, I felt they all did great. Whether you watch it with your friends, or alone, it is worth it.

Like many others who have submitted reviews on this movie, I also must warn potential viewers that it is terrible!I have seen many movies that try to emulate the hilarious sex scenes such as the American Pie series, yet they go way over the top.Van WiLder three does just that. It is filled with dirty sex scenes that are not even funny, most of it is sick and embarrassing to watch. I found myself shifting in my seat at each dirty scene, and I'm not prudish.. The sex scenes in American pie sent me in hysterics !! This movie however is vulgar and awkward.I however must intervene on the attack of the sequels by all reviewers above. Road Trip was a terrible, terrible movie but the second one (Eurotrip) was absolutely hilarious. I laughed so much I had tears in my eyes. I never ever enjoyed "road trip" but Eurotrip is definitely a must-see!!Rise of taj was good but not great, however i'm disappointed at the predictability of the storyline. I could think of 50,000 better concepts of a van wilder sequel .... pity.So watch van wilder 1. If you loved taj, watch the sequel, but don't watch number three or you'll switch it off after half an hour like I did!Btw- it was still impressive to see the new van actor imitate the same mannerisms as Ryan Reynolds.. I give him credit for that

"Van Wilder" (2002) was an excellent comedy following in the footsteps of "American Pie" and "Road Trip". It had hilarious performances from Ryan Reynolds, Kal Penn and Tara Reid. "Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj" (2006): No Ryan Reynolds this time, but Kal Penn returns who is a talented comedian (Harold & Kumar 1-2). Not as good as the first one, but again very funny with a good story, effective jokes and funny characters. In Part 2 they were smart enough not to bring back characters if they did not have the original actors. That can't be said about Part 3.. "Van Wilder: Freshman Year" (2009) makes that mistake, but it's just one of many. It is supposed to be some kind of prequel although it makes no sense at all. The unknown actor looks at least a little bit like Ryan Reynolds but he's not convincing - and worse.. not funny at all. They even replaced his father (Tim Matheson in the original), this time played by Linden Ashby (soap actor and do not forget his rock bottom performance as a wannabee John McClane in the terrible Die Hard clone "Blast" with Rutger Hauer). His part is so little, no idea why that character (they do NOT look alike) had to be in here. But no idea about what real fun is either; this is just forced, cheap TV-comedy series humor. After half an hour, I knew it wasn't gonna get any better, It is just bad and unfunny from the start. I loved the first three American Pie's: I hated the rest. I loved the first Road Trip: I hated the second one. I loved the first two Van Wilder's: I hated the third. If they make another one, I will not even give it a try, "Write that down" (Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder 2002).

I cannot believe that i've lost 1hour and 40 minutes with this insanely stupid movie. I don't recommend it even to my worst enemies. I can't even believe that a movie with this budget can be so bad and by bad i mean almost the worst comedy movie that i ever saw. The characters have stupid expressions on they'r faces all the time that do not fit to the proper situation, they'r actions in some scenes have no rational meaning. It's another classical teenage party movies filled with bad sexuality scenes. The single good thing about this movie is that some of the young characters may be appreciated by the critics and get to play in another movie.