American Reunion Reviews

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David Sexton
London Evening Standard
May 4, 2012
Some things they do better over there. Some things they shouldn't do over here at all.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
May 3, 2012
There are a few gags. But inevitably, the guys wind up sentimentally telling each other they should do this every year. Please no.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Leo Robson
Financial Times
May 3, 2012
The old bittersweet tone is gone, replaced by the sickly sweet and the downright tasteless.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
May 3, 2012
Like most reunions, it intersperses the horror of recognition with effortfully winsome gestures at nostalgia.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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Adam Woodward
Little White Lies
May 2, 2012
Little more than a roll call of worn-out punchlines and situational non sequiturs.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Tom Huddleston
Time Out
May 1, 2012
Outside of porn, there has never been a movie with so many shots of grown men eyeing teenage girls' backsides. The result is fitfully amusing but more often just creepy.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
April 7, 2012
American Reunion tries to use nudity, sex, and fecal matter to generate laughter, but the jokes are tired and predictable.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Ricardo Baca
Denver Post
April 6, 2012
Yes, American Reunion is a juvenile outing. They steal jet skis and defecate in beer coolers. They cheat on their girlfriends and lie to their best friends. But what did you expect?
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
April 6, 2012
None of it makes much of an impression, although there are a few nice and surprisingly heartfelt moments around the edges.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Claudia Puig
USA Today
April 6, 2012
A strained, relentless quest for gross-out humor and outlandish sexual escapades.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
April 6, 2012
Confirms the perception that only losers attend high-school reunions.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Rafer Guzman
Newsday
April 6, 2012
In the end, "American Reunion" even gets away with its sequel-baiting closing line: "Till next time!"
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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Tom Long
Detroit News
April 6, 2012
"Reunion" should be the last slice of "Pie," America.
Full Review | Original Score: C
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post
April 6, 2012
Overall, the level of wit and invention from writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg is well below their scripts for the three "Harold and Kumar" movies.
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Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
April 6, 2012
An aggressively crass - and not especially funny - trip down memory lane, an attempt to recapture the sweetly ribald magic of the earlier film.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
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Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
April 5, 2012
Doesn't provide the generational high producers thought it would; this isn't exactly the cast of "American Graffiti."
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle
April 5, 2012
The entire film is a mistake.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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A.O. Scott
New York Times
April 5, 2012
It has some good moments, but it goes on too long, and not enough happens that is likely to create new memories.
Original Score: 2.5/5
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Peter Howell
Toronto Star
April 5, 2012
American Reunion, remarkably, might just be the funniest issue yet from the American Pie franchise factory.
Original Score: 2.5/4
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Alonso Duralde
TheWrap
April 5, 2012
Bad enough that the film is smutty and that most of the female characters are either bores or bitches, but there are almost no laughs, save what Scott valiantly squeezes out of Stifler's antics.
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