I first heard of this if it was billed with all the US title American Reunion; a review of the publicity still showing Mena Suvari whooshed my memories returning to those blue remembered hills of 1999, everything teen sexiness, the embarrassment of their dad taking an inappropriate libido. What would this much-hyped "reunion" bring, 14 years on? What would Mena do? Would Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening be divorced nowadays? Will an adult and balding Wes Bentley, getting work done in insurance, admit that his video of an plastic bag blowing inside the wind to be real fantastically pretentious and annoying? Will Thora Birch … wait. Actually, what happened to Thora Birch?
But no. It's a reunion of these other zeitgeisty classic from 1999, American Pie, and also this comedy plays out just as if they all haven't seen one another since that first film, placed in high school, thus skipping lightly over two sequels. Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan are Jim and Michelle, now wearily married that has a small child. Seann William Scott returns as being the grinningly offensive but good-natured Stifler, and Eugene Levy is scene-stealingly back as Jim's lovable dad. We get the party started in doing what is admittedly a bravura masturbation scene. Then it loses its way.
The first-time around, unlovely teenage boys somehow experienced sexy situations with cute teenage girls. Now – guess what happens? They are unlovely early-middle-aged guys who somehow end up in sexy situations with cute teenage girls. The kid that Jim accustomed to babysit is actually an 18-year-old hottie who takes her top up and wants to lose her virginity to him. Originally, there have been two kinds of women in American Pie-world: fantasy teen babes and fantasy hot Milfs. Now the passage of energy has forced this franchise to acknowledge the difficult, non-comedy reality of real women involving, getting really older of their late 20s and early 30s. Alyson Hannigan manages it with dignity. So does Mena Suvari, practically. Tara Reid is shot meticulously, usually standing or sitting still, delivering her lines with stately dignity.
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- Release: April 4, 2012 (Iceland)
- Directors: Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz
- Film series: American Pie
- Featured song: Laid
- Executive producers: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Louis G. Friedman
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