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American Wedding
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Herz (also characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jesse Dylan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 2, 2004
Video: January 2, 2004
Theatrical: August 1, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 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
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.

80
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.

80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The movie is enormously, convulsively funny, and it never lets up -- it has no shame.

75
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.

75
Premiere
Kelly Borgeson
So tasteless, so fiendishly puerile that its hilarious.

75
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.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Combining raunchiness and sweetness in a slapdash but generally effective manner.

67
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.

63
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.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
This isn't really a narrative: It's a collection of mostly unrelated scenes, about half of which pay off.

63
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.

60
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."

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
The familiar formula feels significantly watered-down the third time around.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Is this sophisticated humor? No. But it is pretty entertaining.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
Portland Oregonian
Roger Moore
Junk this is and ever was, but this is well-acted junk.

50
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."

50
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.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Some gut-busting moments, but for the most part the thrill is gone.

50
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.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Best of all, though, is Seann William Scott as the profoundly annoying, profoundly vulgar Stifler.

40
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.

38
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.

30
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.

25
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.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The strain and desperation are apparent from the first scene.

25
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.

16
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.

10
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
You'll see better film on ponds.

10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A gross-out saga that sentient adults should avoid like the plague.
10
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
For sheer ineptitude, crassness and unwatchability, American Wedding takes the cake.


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