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73
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72
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72
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71
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69
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
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59
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59
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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54
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52
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52
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37
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35
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35
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32
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32
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30
Cover
24
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20
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American Pie 2
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, crude humor, language and drinking
Starring
Jason Biggs,
Tara Reid,
Chris Klein,
Seann William Scott,
Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Shannon Elizabeth,
and
Mena Suvari
American Pie 2 finds the original characters back in their Michigan hometown, rounded up for the first time since leaving for college. It's been a year since their famous prom night of sexual misadventure, and they still haven't fully recovered. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Herz (also story and characters)
David H. Steinberg (story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
James B. Rogers
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 15, 2002
Video: January 15, 2002
Theatrical: August 10, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The funniest scenes involve Jim and his father, thanks to the brilliant, improvisational skills of Eugene Levy.

80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The simple premise of one scene of table-turning voyeurism is brilliant.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's all patently ridiculous, but it's also ridiculously fun.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I laughed at American Pie 2, yes, but this is either going to be the last "Pie" movie or they're going to have to get a new angle.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The "American Pie" movies succeed where many other comedies aimed at the youth market falter: they manage to be both lewd and sweet, exploiting the natural prurience of young people while implicitly comforting their raging anxieties.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Somewhere between setup and punch line, American Pie 2 starts feeling less like a sequel and more like the second episode of a TV series, a case of fine-tuning after the pilot's been picked up by the network.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski.

63
Boston Globe
Elizabeth Barchas
Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Very, very funny, albeit inferior in a number of ways to the original.

60
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
This lively and nicely timed comedy has plenty enough, farce, slapstick and even drawing-room humor.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Pie 2's greatest asset is the rare, infectious amiability of its cast of characters and the actors playing them.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
A cheap and easy amusement, one that's gone a little stale and never quite rises to the occasion.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It delivers all the raunch and ribaldry its designated audience could hope for, but others may find it more deliberately disgusting than effervescently outrageous.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
American Pie 2, which brings back the same cast for more of the same, is just another by-the-numbers, money-hungry sequel with a lot of recycled shaggy-sex jokes and gross-out gags.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Doesn't make much sense on a story level, and it has a cheap, slapdash look that indicates no one behind the camera was interested in anything other than another fat payday.
40
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.
40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's a copy all the way, a disheartening attempt to capitalize on the success of the original.

40
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Hardly works up a decent belly laugh before its characters are happily pairing off with whomever they desire most. The film is like skipping the orgasm and going straight for the cigarette.

40
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
There's no real story and that would be fine, if Rogers and screenwriter Adam Herz could keep from pretending otherwise.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Delivers more of what the original promised, with the crudity index up one notch and the humor index down quite a few.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny.

30
Variety
Robert Koehler
A remarkably boring comedy.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
No longer fresh -- though that's to be expected in a sequel -- it contains none of the virtues that made the first one anarchic and original.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
This film isn't so much a sequel to the original "American Pie" as a reduction of it.

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Of all the characters in American Pie 2, male or female, Michelle is the only one who feels completely rounded and whole. She moves with unerring grace and subtlety through this feeble minefield of a movie, unharmed by the tepid jokes that flop and fizzle around her.

10
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A slipshod sequel that looks tossed together over a weekend by people who couldn't care less.

10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Lacks both taste and flavor.

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