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American Wedding - Full Screen Extended Party Edition (Unrated)

American Wedding - Full Screen Extended Party Edition (Unrated)

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Life according to Stifler?
Review: For fans wanting to see the next step in the lives of this group, your view will be slightly skewed. Although the other characters are there, they seem to be more of a background and motivation for the character of Stifler. Kevin, played by Thomas Ian Nicholas, says very little throughout the entire movie. Jason Biggs, playing the future groom, does not have the big role you'd think he'd get. Alyson Hannigan also has a small role. Chris Klein absent from the movie altogether and is not even mentioned.

Since he stole the show, my guess is that the filmmakers decided to give his Seann William Scott, "Stifler," more screen time. As a result, he doesn't fit with the movie. Although important to the plot, the gags seem to be formulaic. If his ingesting something disgusting was funny before, it should be funny now. This time, however, it is a bit less believable.

Eugene Levy is always a treat, but even he couldn't save this one. I felt this would provide closure, but the movie was a bit disappointing. I would not recommend this unless you are renting it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very enjoyable
Review: I fully enjoyed this 3rd installment in the American Pie series. I think these characters become more and more likable as the movies are made. I have a feeling that there will be more to come. The trilogy was so popular that fans will insist on more. This movie was so funny, although goes 2 da x-treme at times. If you know what I mean. The chocolate truffle scene for instance. Very funny thanks to Seann William Scott, but very gross at the same time. The bachelor party was one of my favorite parts of the movie. Those two blondes were funny and sexy. I also liked the gay club scene, when Bear was introduced and he and Stifler had the dance-off. The film is loaded with laugh out loud humor, the DVD has plenty of extras. I recommend the whole series. It's like a really good on-going movie sitcom with nudity and language.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Glad it's the last!!!!!
Review: This movie was funny, but the first American Pie will always be the best one out of the three movies. American Wedding should have been called "American Stiffler", seems like the focus was mostly on him with the bride and groom to be getting second and third billing. It's a fun movie, and there are some parts you will laugh at more then other parts. Good fun.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Can I give it minus 5?
Review: If there were any concept of talent or justice in Hollywood, Jesse Dylan would not be allowed to direct another film as long as he lived. I watched this film with my expectations set about as low as I could possibly set them. And amazingly the film was even worse.

For those who don't know, the American Pie movies, of which this is the third, are a series of comedies that want to have their American Pie and eat it, by opting for both trying to gross us out and then claiming a kind of cloying moral message at the end,. These kids are desperate for sex, but of course at the end of it, they always do see that there's more to life than sex.

And, naturally, because the films have to cop out anyway to satisfy what they see as a hormonally challenged teen target audience, they get the sex as well.

The first of the films did surprise a little by the eventual maturity of its message, even though - as I said - it still compromised so thoroughly that the message rang kind of hollow. It wasn't much of a movie, but there was at least the claim of a sweet conventional morality to it. The second one was pretty much more of the same.

Still, average to weak as they were, they were Citizen Kane compared to American Pie 3, which is made with the lowest level of technical proficiency I've seen on the big screen in a long while.

In this chapter, which we've been told - thank the powers above for small blessings - will be the final one, Jim (Jason Biggs) and his longtime girlfriend Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have decided to get married. Of course hilarity ensues even during the proposal which Jim fudges so completely that Michelle thinks he's requesting an embarrassing sexual favour in public. Jim's buddies Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) are willing to help on hand to help with the arrangments, but despite their best efforts they can't keep the obnoxious Steve "Stifmeister" Stifler (Seann William Scott) out of the picture. He's the one who - even more than the rest - has only one thing on his mind,

Both Finch and Stiffler find themselves in even more conflict when Michelle's younger sister, Cadence (January Jones), turns up, and they are both interested in her.

So, the scene is set. The movie has a lot to play with. After all, so many things can go wrong in the run up to a wedding, and there's always that old fall back of the disastrous bachelor party and losing the ring. Written by Adam Herz - you should know who to blame - American Pie 3 does every predictable thing you can think of but does most of them so badly that you hardly notice.

Director Jesse Dylan appears unable to direct, his cinematographer Lloyd Ahern II, appears unable to light, and editor Stuart Pappe appears to have two hands full of thumbs. And no sense of rhythm. If you doubt my comments on the cinematography and you are unfortunate enough to see this film, look particularly at the lighting in the car scenes, where a huge light seems to be hidden just under the dashboard. If you want to check out why I say the editing is so bad, just watch a dance scene in a gay bar where Stiffler struts his stuff to outdance a gay dancer. It's about as badly filmed and edited as you can possibly imagine such a sequence being.

I am a great fan of Allyson Hannigan, who I liked a lot as Willow in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, but she's wasted here, and you spend a lot of time feeling sorry for her - in the relatively brief sequences she's on screen. Seann William Scott has been much better than this, even in the awful Bulletproof Monk. And in Evolution. Here he mugs so excruciatingly at times you wonder whether the director is really this bad or whether Scott's doing it to get back at him for something. Eugene Levy as Jim's dad has a couple of good scenes, but it's all repetition from the earlier films.

And of course there's the gross out stuff. The pie of the first movie becomes an engagement cake, a dog licks someone's crotch, dog excrement gets mistaken for chocolate truffle, pubic hair ends up all over a wedding cake, and of course there are numerous scenes where dubious sexual activity, or actions mistaken for dubious sexual activity take place. It's all like an update of the old - and even then tiresome - Brian Rix farces that used to grace the English stage.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: AMERICAN PIE III WAS VERY GOOD
Review: IT WAS SOOOOOOOOO FUNNY IN THIS MOVIE...LOL.....STIFFLER WENT TO A GAY BAR AND THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA MEET A HOT GIRL AND MET A GUY.....AND THE DANCING SCENE WAS THE GREATEST....I LOVE ALL THOSE 80S SONGS.......BEAR WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL...AND DANCED GOOD TOO.....I DIDNT SEE THE REST BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF GOOD DANCING....STIFFLER IS PRETTY COOL SOMETIMES....SO GO OUT AND SEE IT IF YOU HAVENT YO!!!!!!! STRAIGHT UP FUNNY HILARIOUS GREAT GREAT SUPER GRETA MOVIE!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Better than the second one ...
Review: 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.

T

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: bad mouthed
Review: MAYBE AMERICAN WEDDING SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED AMERICAN DISASTER.TOO MUCH FOUL LANGUAGE THAT WAS OVERDONE THAT EVENTUALY LED TO THE MOVIES DEMISE,IT ALMOST BECAME A BIG BORE.IF NOT FOR THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN QUITE PLEASENT.NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS AMERICAN PIE,THE DIRECTOR JUST RAN OUT OF IDEAS HOPEFULY THIS WILL BE THE LAST.SEE IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Terrible, low-class, coarse humor
Review: If a screen writer intended to make a movie that was disgusting, not funny, focused on the lowest and basest instincts to such an extent that it would be even less interesting than a raunchy ... movie, this would be the movie that was created.

First, why is it necessary to end this series even more revolting than it started? When the series began, it certainly was sexually-explicit, but it was by no means close to obscene.

Also, every scene was highly predictable. All I had to do was think: "What is the easiest thing for a screen writer to create," and before my brain could process a result, I saw it on the screen. Certainly we, the movie-going audience expect to be somewhat entertained by substantive dialogue and an actual script. It is unfortunate that this movie fails on all counts.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Some Things are Better Left Unwed
Review: When compared to a train wreck I suppose this movie, "American Wedding," the third in the American Pie trilogy, engages in a photo finish. How to say that more succinctly and clear? "American Wedding" is a cinematic disaster that should be avoided at all cost. I suppose there may be a use for a movie like this. After all the CIA still has Saddam Hussein and are surely interested in him telling all sorts of things. Hussein could be forced into watching "American Wedding," continuously looped until driven absolutely mad from being subjected to un-funny sight gags and tired forced American Pie I and II references until kicking and screaming he spills the Garbanzo beans. Just the threat of having to watch the character Stifler in an annoyingly abrasive performance would be enough.

Half of the cast bailed from American Pie I and II and for good reason. Chris Klien (Oz) and Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia) are most notably absent and surely happy about their career choices to sit this one out. While the majority of the movie industry have moved past the "let's see just how gross we can make the sight gags," the American Pie team has not. So, we are left with jokes about consumed dog poop and body hair from certain regions of the body making it's way into the air conditioner and all over the wedding food. Not much in American Wedding is funny. Not much in American Wedding is worth watching.

So surely there must be something redeemable here. Well die-hard fans of American Pie I and II may get a few yucks here and there and appreciate seeing Alyson Hannigan's "Michelle" character blossom beyond band camp. And actually the soundtrack is quite good, but I can't recall the last time I or anyone else went to see a movie to listen to the soundtrack. Save your money with American Wedding and skip the movie, go buy the soundtrack instead.

--MMW

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: boo
Review: i didnt think it was even that funny. i had something to say about every "funny-part". some parts were all right but i believe the movie should have never been created. And that goes for the sequel. I wish i didn't waste my time watching it.


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