| 80 |
Washington Post
The funniest scenes involve Jim and his father, thanks to the brilliant, improvisational skills of Eugene Levy.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
The simple premise of one scene of table-turning voyeurism is brilliant.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
It's all patently ridiculous, but it's also ridiculously fun.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
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.
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| 70 |
New Times (L.A.)
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.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Elizabeth Barchas
Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Very, very funny, albeit inferior in a number of ways to the original.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
This lively and nicely timed comedy has plenty enough, farce, slapstick and even drawing-room humor.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Pie 2's greatest asset is the rare, infectious amiability of its cast of characters and the actors playing them.
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| 50 |
USA Today
A cheap and easy amusement, one that's gone a little stale and never quite rises to the occasion.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
It delivers all the raunch and ribaldry its designated audience could hope for, but others may find it more deliberately disgusting than effervescently outrageous.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
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.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
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.
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| 40 |
Mr. Showbiz
Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
It's a copy all the way, a disheartening attempt to capitalize on the success of the original.
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| 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.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
There's no real story and that would be fine, if Rogers and screenwriter Adam Herz could keep from pretending otherwise.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Delivers more of what the original promised, with the crudity index up one notch and the humor index down quite a few.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny.
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| 30 |
Variety
A remarkably boring comedy.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
This film isn't so much a sequel to the original "American Pie" as a reduction of it.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
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.
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| 10 |
Rolling Stone
A slipshod sequel that looks tossed together over a weekend by people who couldn't care less.
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| 10 |
Wall Street Journal
Lacks both taste and flavor.
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