Reviews of American Pie

Decent entertainment.

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 22 April 2008 10:03 (A review of American Pie)

"You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us."

I doubt anyone would watch a comedy like this with hopes of it being a masterpiece. In all fairness, American Pie is not even close to being a masterpiece but at least it's a good slice of fluffy entertainment.

This American teen sex comedy is about a group of four teenagers; Jim (Biggs), Chris (Klein), Kevin (Nicholas) and Paul (Thomas). Like most American teenagers, all four are obsessed with sex. But they're in their final year of high school and they all remain virgins much to their dismay.

Despite trying desperately hard to lose their virginity, all four are unable to score with a girl. But the four guys soon develop a pact; that they will all lose their virginity by the night of their senior prom. But as fate would have it, the boys encounter overwhelming obstacles during their attempts at "becoming a man".

The film falls squarely into the coming-of-age genre. It is able to grasp the attention of its target audience because the portrayal of high school life is something that common teens can relate to.

Who knows, perhaps the film will invoke nostalgic memories in the minds of adults about their teenage years and the raging hormones of their youth.

I think the film succeeds in accurately portraying high school life, but the filmmakers are more concerned with raunchy gags rather that witty humour. I've never been an overall fan of sexual humour, so the film wasn't entirely to my taste. The use of humour that includes cracks about masturbation and other things in that vein get very tedious due to how frequent they are. I very rarely, if ever, found myself laughing.

The whole film is very stupid and embarrassing at times. There are some particularly explicit scenes (one including an apple pie...fans of the movie would know what I'm referring to), and a whole heap of foul language mixed in there as well.

The bottom line about American Pie is that it's a bit of simple light-hearted entertainment. It contains a disappointingly low number of laughs but contains a plot most of us can relate to. It's incredibly stupid and it's highly coarse at times as well. If you're a fan of these disappointing sex comedies then you'll probably enjoy it. If you want a bit of entertainment, you'll like it. But it's nothing more than an average film. Look out for a very sneaky reference to The Graduate.

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That chick's a MILF

Posted : 2 years, 10 months ago on 27 January 2007 04:04 (A review of American Pie)

Yeah, it's a bit raunchy and kinda dumb, but it gives out some great laughs and was a good time with the full house I saw it with in the theater. Silly and over the top, but I guess you can find a good outcome with friendship and the end of your high school years

Actually, can't we all compare our group of buddies in high school and parallel them to these guys? I know I can. Except none of us did anything dirty with an apple pie. None that I know of.

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MILW

Posted : 3 years ago on 23 November 2006 04:41 (A review of American Pie)

Movie I Love to Watch. The original is the best, and this teen comedy revitalized an entire genre with the story of a quest for the teenage Holy Grail, sex. Stifler's mom also introduced the world to the MILF, the single greatest acronym to come out of the verbal slang movement.

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