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American Wedding

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 40 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Adam Herz (also characters)
Directed by: Jesse Dylan
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 1, 2003
DVD: January 2, 2004
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexual content, language and crude humor
Starring Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, January Jones, Eugene Levy, and Molly Cheek
It was bound to happen, sooner or later. The raucous and lovable characters from the wildly successful American Pie series have gone and done it -- well they're planning on doing it. Really soon. In front of everyone they know. In a big way. Jim (Biggs) and Michelle (Hannigan) are getting married. (Universal Pictures)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: American Pie American Pie 2
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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...
Variety Robert Koehler
The funny stuff continues for a quite satisfying conclusion during the wedding prep and ceremonies, which Stifler single-handedly transforms into his own personal gross-out comedy masterpiece.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
If you do not bring pride, good taste or sense to this third American Pie installment, you'll have a good time.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
The movie is enormously, convulsively funny, and it never lets up -- it has no shame.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue
Speaking personally, I wouldn't voluntarily go to this flick. But for those with a greater gross-out threshold, it's a better film than anyone should normally expect in this genre.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Although the movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene, it has a sweetness that is impossible to discount, and it is often very funny.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Combining raunchiness and sweetness in a slapdash but generally effective manner.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's often helplessly hilarious in its adolescent gross-out way, yet the cast periodically invests the film with sweetness.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Spotty and uneven, Wedding shouldn't even have the embarrassed guffaws it has, and it probably wouldn't were it not for a robust cast.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
This isn't really a narrative: It's a collection of mostly unrelated scenes, about half of which pay off.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
This movie is a vast improvement over the tired and uninspired "American Pie 2," although it fails to make it to the lofty perch occupied by the first film.
Read Full Review >Film Threat David Grove
Works because it pays tribute to these characters. I knew that American Wedding couldnt be as funny as "American Pie 2" just as that film wasnt as funny as "American Pie."
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
The familiar formula feels significantly watered-down the third time around.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Is this sophisticated humor? No. But it is pretty entertaining.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
There's much more than a little Stifler here. Still, there's a recklessness to the character, as well as Scott's performance, that almost engenders respect; he's so determinedly unregenerate, so outrageously lewd, so unrelentingly grating, one almost looks forward to seeing just how far he'll go.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Screenwriter Adam Herz is calling this third installment the last, and not a moment too soon: his characters have grown up, but his gags are still trying to graduate from high school.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Its commendable, if juvenile, sense of erogenous adventure is sullied by bland technique, canned suburban punk music, and the fact that all the exploration does amount to maturer characters.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A gagfest that makes viewers gag at least twice as often as they giggle, American Wedding -- third in the American Pie trilogy -- whipsaws the audience between gross-out and guffaw.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Roger Moore
Junk this is and ever was, but this is well-acted junk.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Against all odds, the American Pie movies have actually gotten a little better each time out, though that's certainly not to say that they're, uhhh, "masterpieces."
Read Full Review >Village Voice David Ng
The deliriously overacting Scott is game for anything, too much really, but as a one-man army against the tide of Z100-scored banality, he's the closest thing the movie has to a savior.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Some gut-busting moments, but for the most part the thrill is gone.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There are a couple of surprises in the I-can't-believe-they're-doing-this vein, but mostly, "Pie 3" is an aimless charade of doggy poo, latex breasts and really, really bad language.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Best of all, though, is Seann William Scott as the profoundly annoying, profoundly vulgar Stifler.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Suffers from a lack of good gags. Thats not to say there arent scads of chuckles scattered throughout Dylan and his cast are nothing if not gluttons for the fast and cheap yuk (not to mention yuck) but the howls of laughter that arose from Paul and Chris Weitzs original slice of Pie just arent there.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
The crass sentimentality of American Wedding increasingly fits Norman Mailer's definition: "the emotional promiscuity of the basically unemotional." The jokes are unemotional, uncouth and mostly unfunny.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Scott's energy helps keep the movie going during its sluggish moments and animates its few bright spots, including a pleasurably dumb showdown on the dance floor of a gay bar.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Whatever novelty this series ever possessed has gone down the proverbial tube. The actors are on autopilot, and Adam Herz's screenplay panders to its immature target audience so cravenly and relentlessly that it verges on incompetence.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The strain and desperation are apparent from the first scene.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This third hunk of Pie is a worn-out gross-out, a remnant of a genre that now seems so five minutes ago.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
The third helping of ''American Pie'' offers little more than crumbs. Half the franchise's core cast (including Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, and Tara Reid) chose to skip the big fat geek wedding.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A gross-out saga that sentient adults should avoid like the plague.
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
For sheer ineptitude, crassness and unwatchability, American Wedding takes the cake.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Kasey S. gave it an8:
American Wedding is definitely a worthy addition to the American Pie series. One of those movies you can watch several times and still laugh.
Job A. gave it a9:
This movie had me laughing so hard that I could barely breath at times.Stiffler is the man in this movie! Hilarious!!
Samantha T gave it an8:
This movie was good but not as good as the second which was my favorte although i did love this movie because it seems to focus on stiffler more who is my favortie character, but it makes me mad that like non of the girls are in it and neither is Oz, but overall the movie was good.
Rebecca L. gave it a 9:
It was hilarious.
Jason D. gave it an 8:
A guilty pleasure but a pleasure. Some movies aren't meant to make you think- just enjoy. And this is one of them.
Andrew M. gave it a 7:
The series may have been fast running out of gas, but this is a genuine improvement over the very pedestrian 2nd instalment. Some very funny scenes permeate through a fairly limp plot but also serve to inculcate the young thespians to greater things...it really is a film that gains momentum as it goes, and that can be seen in the acting; Biggs and Thomas are perfectly comfortable with their characters; Scott, as opposed to his strained effort in 2, is the real shining light; and Levy again makes you simultaneously chuckle and shake your head. And on a final note, this film has to have the grossest gross-out scene ever....you know the one!!
N C gave it a 0:
A big let down.
