American Pie (1999)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 48
So embarrassing it's believable, American Pie succeeds in bringing back the teen movie genre.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 13
So embarrassing it's believable, American Pie succeeds in bringing back the teen movie genre.
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Movie Info
It's said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Jim (Jason Biggs), a high school senior in suburban Michigan. Jim is thoroughly obsessed with sex, a fact of which his parents become aware when they discover him performing the sin of Onan with a gym sock while watching scrambled pay-per-view porn. Jim's buddies Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and Oz (Chris Klein) are no less
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Cast
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Jason Biggs
Jim Levinstein -
Shannon Elizabeth
Nadia -
Alyson Hannigan
Michelle Flaherty -
Chris Klein
Oz -
Natasha Lyonne
Jessica -
Thomas Ian Nicholas
Kevin -
Tara Reid
Vicky -
Seann William Scott
Steve Stifler -
Mena Suvari
Heather -
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Finch -
Eugene Levy
Jim's Dad -
Jennifer Coolidge
Stifler's Mom -
Chris Owen
Sherman -
Clyde Kusatsu
English Teacher -
Lawrence Pressman
Coach Marshall -
Molly Cheek
Jim's Mom -
John Cho
John -
James DeBello
Enthusiastic Guy -
Christina Milian
Band Member
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All Critics (124) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (48) | DVD (33)
Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers, this one somewhat better than most by virtue of a more satisfying ending.
A crude piece of work, spottily acted and directed.
More likely to gross out adults than kids.
Top CriticIt casts actors who look plausible and treats sex with honesty and no apologies.
Adam Herz's script is wildly uneven but occasionally quite funny.
Paul Weitz, who never directed before; Chris Weitz - his brother - who never produced before; and Adam Herz, who never wrote a screenplay before, have cooked up two hilarious hours of impure pow.
It works as well as it does because the central cast - equal parts male and female, lest we forget - are all so uniformly endearing.
It may not have invented the genre, but it did bring that genre to a whole new generation.
A well aimed jab at jock culture full of satisyingly dirty belly laughs.
Ultra-raunchy sex comedy is a teen fave -- beware.
Rest of the rancid jokes, listless performances, and mild sauce mischief bury the basic boner novelty of American Pie alive. Eleven years later, it's still the same insufferable, meaningless hooey it always was.
American Pie shows us how little boys know about sex going into it, and how little the act really teaches them about it as well. But the true joy, for us in the audience anyway, is the chase. Vulgar and heartwarming!
The production is amateurish and cheap-looking, but two decent performances are worth mentioning: Chris Klein as a sensitive jock and Alyson Hannigan as a nerdy flute player.
It has likable characters and infectiously funny situations, and that's about all a comedy like this needs.
A surprisingly large amount of screen time devoted to the sickly sweet morality tales of the movie which would be fine on TV series...but are way too frothy and take up too much time here.
More mature audiences, beware, 'cause this ain't your film.
American Pie is pleasant movie experience, despite the fact that many viewers might feel guilty about it
American Pie is the latest in a long tradition of immature, self-indulgent comedies that celebrate the recklessness of adolescents.
It could have been a lot worse.
An affectionate rendering of adolescence in all its questionable glory.
Oh, goody - another movie about high school boys racing each other to get laid.
This is one of the greatest teen films of all time.
It takes almost 30 intolerably slack minutes to set it up and get it rolling.
Audience Reviews for American Pie
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- Jim's Dad: I have to admit, you know, I did the fair bit of[hesitates] masturbating when I was a little younger. I used to call it stroking the salami, yeah, you know, pounding the old pud.[pause] I never did it with baked goods, but you know your uncle Mort, he pets the one-eyed snake 5-6 times a day.
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- Kevin: If Sherman has sex before I do, I'm gonna be really pissed.
- Jim Levinstein: Sherman? The Sherminator? [both laugh]
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- Jim Levinstein: God, let this be it.
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- Michelle Flaherty: What's my name? Say my name, bitch!
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- Jim Levinstein: She's gone! Oh my God, she used me. I was used. I was used! Cool!
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- Oz: You ask them questions, and listen to what they have to say and shit.
- Steve Stifler: I dunno, man, that sounds like a lot of work.
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I'd say the best part of American Pie are the characters and their interactions. Everyone feels real and it helps capture the essence of high school life. Jim is obviously the funniest of them all because of his constant bad luck. Stifler and Finch are close contenders. There are also some great minor characters, Michelle and Jim's dad, that bring some good laughs. Everyone else does fine but they aren't too funny.
The humor is over the top and it's well timed. It's not just an overload of sex jokes; instead our characters are put in extremely embarrassing situations, some of them we can relate to. Not that there isn't talk about sex, but most of it is used in good context.
American Pie is an above average comedy that does a great job dealing with the issues of teenage life. With well developed characters, iconic moments, and Stifler's mom, this film is a classic.