AMERICAN PIE

1999

In the first two minutes of this movie, you can get a pretty good feel for what you're in for -lots of cheap, raunchy jokes about the awkwardness of a first sexual experience. When four male friends make a pact to make sure each one of them loses their virginity before they graduate high school (three weeks away), all four use different techniques to set up sexual opportunities after the senior prom. Instead of giving us characters we could get behind and relate to, however, the characters are like clowns who get themselves into rediculous situations that insult our intelligence. On the positive side, though, we do see two of the four male characters actually begin to mature and there are some gags that are really funny. But then, who wants to see some frustrated teenager stick their penis in a pie anyway? And can anyone be more annoying and unbelievable than Eugene Levy as a father attempting to teach his son about sex?

2 Stars

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