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American Pie
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality, crude sexual dialogue, language and drinking, all involving teens
Starring
Jason Biggs,
Eugene Levy,
Chris Klein,
Thomas Ian Nicholas,
Seann William Scott,
Shannon Elizabeth,
Alyson Hannigan,
and
Natasha Lyonne
Four high school friends enter into a pact to lose their virginity before graduation, encountering apple pies and other embarrassing speedbumps along the way.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Herz
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Paul Weitz
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 21, 1999
Video: December 21, 1999
Theatrical: July 9, 1999
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
95 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...
100
Dallas Observer
Glenn Gaslin
It's painful, it's real, and it's probably the funniest thing you'll see this year...a teen sexploitation classic.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In addition to being extremely funny, the film has a warm spirit and respect for the characters.

88
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Vulgar and lewd and raunchy like you wouldn't believe, and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Unusual in its ability to mix bodily functions humor with a sincere and unlooked-for sense of decency.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Pie has some nice surprises and is enjoyable in a smutty, sitcom way. It offers up the outrageousness of "There's Something About Mary" without wallowing in cruelty.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Guaranteed to beguile anyone who can remember the joy -- and agony -- of anticipating the first time.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A lively, disposable hybrid of the sincere and the synthetic.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
The presence of "Election's" Chris Klein as the male contingent's most sensitive member only emphasizes how much smarter that high school comedy was.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The successful bits, along with an amiable cast of losers and their prom-night prey, make American Pie a winner.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is not inspired, but it's cheerful and hard-working and sometimes funny, and--here's the important thing--it's not mean.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Exceptionally funny, unexpectedly tender, and lewder than a teenage boy's dreams.
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Alternately sweet and raucous comedy.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Distinct from others of its lowly stripe because of the credibly real-feeling performances by much of its youthful ensemble.
63
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Both funny and foul, alternately frank and full of it.

60
TNT RoughCut
M. Meghan McCarthy
What is refreshing about this film is that most of the characters seem like real people.
60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Cheesy homage to a level of horniness Austin Powers could only imagine will be a dream movie for many a teenage boy.

60
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A surprisingly earnest and cautionary movie, careful to attract female viewers and not freak parents out too badly.

60
LA Weekly
John Patterson
The movie lover in you will recoil; your inner sophomore will rejoice.

50
Salon.com
Mary Elizabeth Williams
I'd appreciate toilet humor more if it weren't so often so unimaginative.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
A limp excuse for a coming-of-age flick, more interested in sexploits than sex, more adept at gross-out than girls.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A go-for-the-lowest-common-denominator grab bag of raunchy sex gags and freakish outbursts. The cool thing is that it works.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Among this year's bumper crop of shallow teen-age movies, it is the shallowest and the most prurient.

40
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Returns the teen movie to the uncomplicated glory days of "Porky's" and "Losin' It."

38
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
An uninteresting take on a tired formula that is only occasionally funny and usually pretty gross.
30
Film.com
Robert Horton
The fact that isolated bits are amusing shouldn't keep us from strongly noting that this movie really is pretty awful -- not at all worthy of guilty pleasure status.

30
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
What really makes the film fall dead (although the preview audience I saw it with howled from beginning to end) are the actors and the way the characters have been scripted.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Idiotic.

25
Boston Globe
Jim Sullivan
Gross and tasteless...this high-school romp mixes the gross and tasteless with sentimental mush.


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