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"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.
6/10
