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.
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