American Wedding DVD
Added 11/9/2009
Gross, Very Funny, but long, The Dance sequence is funny yet not too much, The first two installments of this movie were better, Alot better. At least this is in the tradition of keeping most of the cast unlike more spinoffs! Not the best.
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NIce Conclusion to a High School Trilogy
Added 10/26/2009
This series was a goldmine for Universal. No one expected a raunchy story about high school kids trying to get laid to spawn and a franchise and make $350 million in US box office. The first film is a classic high school movie. The sequel was good, and funny, but hampered by too many characters and too many storylines. This one goes back more towards the original, with a few main characters and the rest just fading into the background. Some addition by subtraction in this movie are the removal of the following characters, Oz, Nadia, and Oz's and Kevin's girlfriends. See, some of those characters were so useless that I cannot even remember their names. As usual you get the shot of Jim's dad catching Jim in an embarrassing situation and you have something gross happen to Stiffler. One of the major flaws is the early incarnation of Stiffler. At the beginning he is a loudmouth who comes off more as nerd, than jerk. It takes a few scenes for Stiffler to resort back to being a jerk, the Stiffler that we know and love. In the end this film draws on the sweetness that made the first two more than gross our comedies. This is a funny film that, the second time around loses its luster, so this is not really built for repeat viewings.
About the DVD: Included on the DVD are deleted scenes. There is a rather useless documentary on Stiffler speak and a "Cheesy Wedding Video" which is just that, cheesy. One thing to take from this film is that Stiffler, is best suited as a background character, not as a main character.
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Brides, Grooms, and Pie!
Added 3/24/2009
With the third installment to the Pie trilogy, Jim and Michelle are tying the knot. So to help celebrate the upcoming event, they've invited out their family and friends. Yep... even Jim's friends. Though the movie is about Jim and Michelle, it also lets Stifler and Finch shine a tad more. When Michelle's sister comes into town, the boys are immediately interested in her. Stifler though believes he has to be someone he's not to impress her, so he tries to act more polite and sophisticated. Finch on the other hand sees through his ruse and instead of acting like himself, becomes a lot more like the Stifler we have come to know (and love?).
Eh... when I saw this in the theater, I remember laughing a good amount. Now though, I really didn't think it was that funny. There were some scenes that were just horrible and not funny at all. For example, Stifler and Jim accidently smash a `congratulations' cake onto each others pants, which then has 2 dogs licking their crotch areas, Stifler laughing, Jim trying to pull them off... and then surprise, the parents of everyone sees it. I had to swallow sadness after seeing that. Though there are plenty of good scenes to make up for it like the chocolate truffle scene. I don't know though, this one just didn't even come close to the first 2.
In the end, I would just give it a rent. Unless you are like me and like to be a completionist or like to laugh with American Pie even during its bad scenes. I own it!
P.S. - I literally gagged out loud like 5 times during the chocolate truffle scene.
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Not as great as the first two
Added 11/18/2008
I was a huge fan of the first and second American Pie. Those was hilarious. This just seemed to be stretching it too far. It makes sense to end the series on this movie because it completes the romantic story line but I just did not find it all that funny. Its worth watching once or twice but not worth the purchase. If you are a fan of American Pie I suggest renting this movie instead of buying it.
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Gotta Have Your Third Slice
Added 9/23/2008
I loved the other two films, read bad reviews, and put off seeing this one for a while. Just shows you can't trust critics. I think this film had the most laugh-out-loud funny moments of the series (I don't see many films where people keep going for minutes, there are two scenes which involve dogs...well, you just have to see the film). The characters, for the most part, are rounded out beautifully (a few aren't given enough to do). Sean William Scott's "Stifler" will go down in movie history. Kudos also to Biggs, Hannigan, Thomas, and Levy, who add subtle shades to characters we've come to know. The biggest surprise for me is that this wasn't a sloppy sequel (um, unless you mean messiness, like the scene where...see the movie). The opening scene in the restaurant, to me, was the funniest moment of the whole series.
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American Pie 2.
Added 11/9/2009
Again, American Pie returns, same characters, still funny which is surprising and still good. Gross humor,sexual hijinks. Classic Coming of age movie without the annoying chickflick overtones.
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The Pie Returns!
Added 3/18/2009
After their first year of college, the gang gets back together to relax and have some fun. After a party at Stiflers, that almost exactly resembles the one from the first movie, the gang decides to take their adventures to a beach house and spend the summer there. While they are trying to find jobs and throw beach parties, the boys have some of their own dilemmas at hand they need to deal with. Jim finds out that Nadia is back in the states after she got booted from them after their internet debacle. Jim has only had sex one and half times since that incident though. So to try and get himself prepared for Nadia, he takes on the aid of Michelle, the band geek that rocked his world from a year ago. As she begins to teach him the ways of sexual behavior, they themselves begin to realize that maybe they are more than they think they are to one another. Kevin, after splitting from Vicky, has to get over his feeling for her once she shows up at the house to have fun. Because for her, they are just friends, which is why she now has a new boy in her life. Oz has to deal with a long distance relationship with Heather since she went away for the summer. It doesn't help though that his best friend Stifler is constantly trying to get him to have sex with any girl within a 3 yard radius of them. Speaking of Stifler, he's still coping with the fact that Finch had sex with his mom last year. And Finch is having withdrawals from not being with Stifler's mom.
For the longest time I thought that part 1 was the better of these 2. I seriously think I've been wrong this whole time. After watching these back to back last night, I can whole heartedly tell you I laughed a lot more with part 2. The jokes are better and even raunchier. The embarrassments Jim go through are hilarious (good god the super glue scene). The girls are hotter. And Stifle maybe just a tad over the top, but is still a lot better in part 2. When he grabs that dildo and shakes it while running through that house, I could not stop laughing. And when he says he forgot where he found it cause of all the excitement from when he found it was just hilarious. The lesbian scene was just laugh out loud funny also.
In the end, I would definitely own this. Just remember though, if you aren't into raunchy and crude comedy, just stay away.
P.S. - There is no way any single straight man would have walked out of that light house without having done something with Nadia. Just no way.
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better than best
Added 1/7/2009
The first had me laughing all the time.
The second (this one) had me on the floor laughing so hard the neighbor knocked on my door and asked me to pipe down.
I own all 3 movies, and its like bible to me.
Whenever i get sad or am upset or just bored, i sit down to watch them. When my family is away visiting my in-laws and when its a dull hot saturday, i switch on the A/c pop these Gems in and have a great laugh.
Jim is amazing. Stiffler is better. And Finch is unbelievable.
I wish my college were like this.
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