Stephen's Summer Songs of the Sentury

So the Sun isn't out now, its the perfect time to compile your favorite Summer music songs in a neat little compilation tape/CD. What? You don't want to? Well that's ok, here are some of mine!

Dr. Dre (ft. Snoop Dogg) - Ain't Nuthin' Be a G Thang

A couple of young men on their way to a picnic! Could it get anymore Summertastic?! Well they probably have guns and there will be hoes involved and I'm not talking the gardening kind....

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Could you imagine, its the last day of school, everyone piles out, sun is blazin' down, your uniform jumper is tied round your waist, two (or three) months of pure, uninterrupted freedom....THEN THE FUCKING SCHOOL BLOWS UP BEHIND YOU! Arguably the greatest exploding school song ever written. 

Len - Steal My Sunshine

Get the fuck out of here. You are NOT better than this song.

Earth, Wind and Fire - September

Yeah so the song is set in the wrong month, but I just can't help dancing in my underpants in the back garden to it. Letting the Sun kiss every inch of my almost nude body as I gyrate to the upbeat tempo of disco kings  Earth, Wind and Fire...think about that next time you listen to this song...

Ice Cube - Today Was a Good Day

The dog next door isn't barking, the sun is shining, he eats just enough for breakfast, he has sex with a woman, someone doesn't steal his car, he doesn't get arrested, he wasn't forced to kill anyone. Sounds like a good Summers day to me...

American Reunion

According to this film I was 13 when the first American Pie was released. At that time I remember it being a revelation! Easily the funniest film I had seen in my 13 years on this planet and boobs, actually boobs in a mainstream that was easily accessible!

Unfortunately time does not do American Pie any favors and now that boobs are easier to see than your own parents, I'm starting to think that the reason I hated American Reunion was based around just this. I think now that I am not 13 anymore this shit doesn't cut it as far as comedy goes. But I still like stuff like Van Wilder and Harold and Kumar, those aren't more high-brow than American Pie, are they?!

No, no they aren't.

American Pie: Reunion reunites everyone from the original movie, whom come together for (surprisingly!) their unofficial high school reunion. Everyone arrives with emotional baggage, some have barren sex lives, others have mental girlfriends blah blah blah, its pretty average, rom-com, DTV comedic fare.

Its not that the original had a ground breaking storyline but its simplicity meant more room for jokes and outrageous situations and cringy awkwardness. To say the new movie lacks any sort of invention is an understatement, at one point Jason Biggs wakes up without any pants! Surely at this point Biggs wouldn't give two fucks about people seeing his junk. Its such a painfully vanilla film where barely anything funny happens! When a gag involving Eugene Levy's eyebrows is the comedy high-point, you know your film is in trouble.

Sadly as soon as the nostalgia kick wears off the movie is just bland and very very dull. But at least its good to see Tara Reid isn't dead, so, there's that.