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Summary: funny but...
Review: it was amusing, glad I saw it, will get the DVD eventualy, but nothing new. More of the same situations, lines, and embarrasing moments. I definatly think I would rate the movies in the series inline with their release (1, 2, then 3 as the worst of the bunch).
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Summary: Here's Pie In Your Eye
Review: The original American Pie took the teen sex comedy genre and gave it a lift. Sure, it had plenty of Animal House and Porky's style humor, but in the midst of all that, it also had a strong sense of honesty. There was an equal amount of both ingredients to make a better film. The second helping of "Pie" didn't quite have the same zing, or warmth of its predecessor. Given that, I didn't know what to expect from American Wedding...I am happy to report that the sequel is better than AP 2. Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs) and his girlfriend Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are about to be married. This allows for friends and family of the happy couple to come together. Jim's pals, Stifler (Seann William Scott), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) want to plan a Bachelor party to top them all. For the first time, Michelle's sister Cadence (January Jones), and her parents (Deborah Rush and Fred Wilard) are part of the fun. The film also benefits from series secret weapon Eugene Levy, as Jim's Dad, whose always good for extra laughs. Hannigan and Biggs are still a fairly goofy duo here, but play well off of each other. Stifler's Mom, (Martha Coolidge) makes her third series cameo, as well Sadly, not all of the original cast decided to return and as good as AW is, sometimes it shows. Chris Klien, Shannon Elizabeth, Tara Ried, and Meena Suvari, are all missed. In order to compensate for these no shows, the filmmakers give Stifler the "ball" on more occaisions this time out. Fortunately, Scott's character, is such a likeable "idiot" that it works out fine. Jim's relationship with his dad also gets more screen time for this installment. Directed by Jesse Dylan, the film is very funny and has some great moments for all AP fans. The unrated version of the movie expands the bachelor party sequence and provides snipets of other material not found in the theatrical cut. Viewers may compare both versions of the movie on the disc. There's a generous helping of both deleted scenes and bloopers. This stuff provides a few chuckles but most of it is of the throwaway variety. There are 5 featurettes, 4 of which take you behind the scenes, while the fifth profiles actress Niki Ziering (Officer Krystal) with a day in the life. As for the other featurettes: Go inside the Bachelor Party Scene, learn how to speak Stiffler, see Jim & Michelle's Wedding Video, and my personal favorite, tips on Grooming the Groom. The disc's best extras though, are the 2 audio commentary tracks. Like the other DVD's in the series, these are lots of fun and worth a listen. The first has Dylan and Seann William Scott, while track 2 features Biggs, Hannigan, Thomas, and Nicholas. Rounding out the bonus material are cast/filmmaker notes and access to additional DVD-ROM stuff If this is the last film in the series--it is a fine dessert and a good way to end a multicourse feast. Despite the missing "regulars", it still finds a way to entertain the masses. Recommended
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Summary: Should be called STIFLER'S MOVIE"
Review: What a shame. American Pie was a great film, 5 stars. Part 2 was not as good, but still had laugh out loud scenes. American Wedding should not be called American Wedding, as it is all about Stifler, and for some reason he has become one annoying character. It isnt about the characters we all know and care about, they become secondary in this movie. What were these filmakers thinking? They ruined a good movie franchise.
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Summary: You will love,honor,and cherish American Wedding!
Review: American Wedding is outrageously funny.Finally you can get this amazing film on a great DVD.With great features including a behind the scenes documentary,the American Wedding DVD is a perfect gift for others as well as yourself.While I deeply miss Vicky,Nadia,Jessica,Heather,Oz,The Sherminator,I really give it to the writers of this film for creating a total hilarious blast for everyone.If u want to own the funniest film of the decade,get American Wedding January 2,2004!
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Summary: The Moose Hole - No 'Wedding' Time Blues Here
Review: Here we go again. The summer season always starts off so promising with such big event films as this year's X2: X-Men United, The Matrix Reloaded, and Finding Nemo bringing in the masses for some solid entertainment. But as the season goes on, more and more films are released that don't seem to quite live up to the films the summer started off with. And finally as we arrive to the final month of summer fun, the studios seem to repeat their ploy for the summer in this one month. After the surprising success of The Sixth Sense in August 1999 as well as the success of films like Signs and xXx in the same time period three years later, the studios have began to stand up and take notice that the last month of the summer doesn't have to be entirely disastrous. With the right story as well as a decent marketing campaign, a studio can still open a film big in the first two weeks of the month while dumping any low budget trash in the closing weeks of the summer. Since there seems to be no Shyamalan film in sight this year, Universal is willing to fill up the slot with the third, and possibly final, installment of their successful American Pie series. After the surprising success of the original in 1999, the box office saw the rebirth of the teen sex comedy genre though few films following in the foot steps of the American Pie film failed to match up. After a successful sequel in 2001, the cast comes together one more time to serve up a slice of pie to the movie-going public. But in a time when sequels have underperformed at the box office, will American Wedding be able to break the curse or will there be nothing but wedding time blues? The story centers around the marriage of Jim and Michelle as the rest of the American Pie clan clamors to get ready for the big day. The sexual confused group of kids from East Great Falls High has finally grown up and two of them are readying to take the big step into matrimony but there seems to be problems around every corner. Jim, who has subjected himself to a huge amount of public humiliation, has enough trouble trying to please Michelle's parents but soon realizes he has another problem: He can't dance. While Jim tries to figure out how to dance, his friends, Kevin and Finch, try to control Stifler, who seems to have plans of his own for the big day. Not only is he excited to through a bachelor party for Jim, with strippers of course, but eyes Michelle's younger sister, Cadence, who just happens to be a virgin. Like the previous American Pie films, things just seem to go from bad to worse as the day draws closer. The story for American Wedding seems to take itself seriously more then the previous efforts which works wonderfully. Even with that said, the film does seem to offer plenty of gross out humor that continues to surprising even the hardcore American Pie fans. Some of the gross out humor, as funny as it is, is a little too much especially one or more scenes involving Stifler, which the film seems to focus on more then in previous ventures. Though several cast members of the original two films don't make appearances in this film, the remaining cast works well enough together that you barely notice the changes. Jason Biggs, who has subjected himself to public humiliation involving a pie as well as superglue, continues his hilarious antics in the third installment in the series that made him famous, in more ways then one. Biggs should have a real promising comedy career seeing that he is willing to do anything for a film including making himself look like a weirdo especially in scenes that showing off his rear end. Alyson Hannigan, who returns as Michelle, isn't given as much screen time as she should have had but when she is featured; she gives the film its heart which greatly needed outside of the gross humor. Sean William Scott, who returns as the eccentric Stifler, seems to subject himself to as much humiliation as Jason Biggs including a scene to that is so disgusting and so funny that you won't believe it even when you do see it. Though the character of Stifler seems to be focused on more then in the previous films, he isn't focused on too much that film distracts the audience from the real story. The real highlight of every American Pie film has to be Eugene Levy, who returns as Jim's father. Levy, who was the only real funny character in the comedy Bringing Down the House earlier this year, is absolutely hilarious as usual and will hopefully have a long and fruitful comedy career outside of this franchise should this be the last film. The only part of the cast that didn't seem to work well was Thomas Ian Nicholas as Kevin. He doesn't really do much for the film and, in fact, doesn't really even say much through the course of the two hour feature. Why was he included while other members of the cast were cut? Did they really need all the male leads back for the last film? Is that why he was included? There really seems to be no clear answer. Overall, American Wedding is the one sequel this year that seems to outshine the previous efforts. Though the film is an achievement in that area, there are a few things to pick at. One of those things includes the number of cast members from the original films that were cut from this film. No clear explanation is given to why certain members of the original cast are not invited to the wedding. In fact, they are barely even mentioned outside of a passing note of Nadia. This isn't a big factor but does seem to pick at the back of the minds of a few fans. Another small problem about the film is some of the gross out humor. Though many of the scenes are very funny and don't seem to be retreads of scenes from the two prior films, some of gross out humor seems to be too much to take in especially the scene involving Stifler's search for the lost wedding ring. Outside of those small problems, American Wedding is the best comedy of the summer as well as the year so far. If this is the last film in the American Pie series, it is a wonderful thing to know that the comedy franchise went out on a huge high note.
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Summary: funny, but no.2 is better!
Review: Ill sum it up in a couple of words. Excelleny movie, but where the hell is oz and every1 else?????????
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Summary: Very funny in a lot of spots.
Review: American Wedding, the third "American Pie" film, is loaded with alot of sex jokes and toilet humor (what passes for high-end comedy today) but I still laughed at most of them. That is probably the reason why this series is so popular. American Wedding manages to make low brow humor appealing to a mass audience without making the whole film an exercise in stupidity. The cast does an excellent job and the writers create some really funny situations.
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Summary: Shouldn't have pressed their luck
Review: With American Pie II, producer Chris Moore and writer Adam Herz accomplished something exceedingly rare - a sequel that was even funnier than the original. The characters actually grew deeper, you cared about them more, you got a deeper insight into their behavior, and it was, well, just *funnier*. With American Wedding, unfortunately, they fell far short of matching anything near the comedy of the other two. Much of the original cast is missing, which didn't bother me too much since Oz (Chris Klein), Vicky (Tara Reid) and Heather (Mena Suvari) were my least favorite characters. (But I think we all missed Nadia.) The missing cast members weren't really the problem in American Wedding, however. The problem was that the characters became paper-thin stereotypes of themselves. We saw obligatory knock-off jokes from the first two. There's not much worse than a writer/producer team riding on their own coattails as opposed to actually coming up with something new and original. In part 2, Jim glued himself to...himself, so in part 3 we need another genitalia mishap. In part 2 Stifler got peed on, so in part 3 there was something involving feces. In general the humor in American Wedding is just rewritten scenes from one of the first two movies. There's very little new or original here. The most disappointing was Stifler (Sean William Scott) whom most of us love. I find it amazing that his character actually *regressed* from where it was in the original installment. Herz did a great job of creating a unique character in Stifler, the guy you all knew and hated in high school. He was not only funny but not an exact stereotype. In American Wedding he is a completely clichéd version of himself - he acts so stupid that you wonder if there's something wrong with him. Literally, they have him acting like he needs medical attention. It turns out that Stifler is featured in the movie more than any other, which would be great if they had given him any funny lines or scenes. In the end American Wedding is certain to please some, but I would save your money on the DVD. It just isn't going to have that repeat-watchability that the first two have.
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Summary: This pie isn't the best piece of the tasty series
Review: It's quite interesting they call this DVD a "unrated extended party edition." I love the raunchiness of the the "Pie" series. My favorite is having Shannon Elizabeth going topless in the original "Pie." Fans won't be dissapointed because "American Wedding" has plenty of topless scenes, sure to have you begging for more! Remember the bachelor party scene with the two babes nude? Well there's more of that in the 'unrated' editon! Anyway, this third entry is alright. Jim gets married to the girl from band camp. The wedding plans turn out to be a disaster, but in 'Pie' fashion, they do tie the knot. Half of the young cast from the previous two movies are gone, and that's probably the downpoint. I miss Shannon Elizabeth! She should of had a cameo by ruining the wedding and running off with Jim! That would have been a better plotline. But Stifler(Seann William Scott) is the savior here. He's funny because he's in this film alot. He pratically stoled the show despite being more stupid and nasty then in the first two movies combined. This rude and arrogant character should have his own movie series. Well enjoy the DVD. GET THE UNRATED EDITION!
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Summary: Great one
Review: This movie was good couldnt beat 1 or 2 but it was still good. Stifler isnt the same he was back in the day from the old films but he still is funny and makes it worth watching.
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