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American Pie 2
Universal Pictures


7.3

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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
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...

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The funniest scenes involve Jim and his father, thanks to the brilliant, improvisational skills of Eugene Levy.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

The simple premise of one scene of table-turning voyeurism is brilliant.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's all patently ridiculous, but it's also ridiculously fun.

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get.

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.

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.

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.

Boston Globe Elizabeth Barchas

Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Very, very funny, albeit inferior in a number of ways to the original.

TV Guide Frank Lovece

This lively and nicely timed comedy has plenty enough, farce, slapstick and even drawing-room humor.

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.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

It's a copy all the way, a disheartening attempt to capitalize on the success of the original.

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.

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.

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny.

Variety Robert Koehler

A remarkably boring comedy.

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.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

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

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.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

A slipshod sequel that looks tossed together over a weekend by people who couldn't care less.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Lacks both taste and flavor.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 47 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brunop gave it a0:
This could be the worst movie of all times. If you laugh when you see a poo on the street, you will love and this would be your new god.

Dhaval S. gave it a10:
Wow American pie 2 is funny movie and i will shack STIFLER"S hand for making me laugh.

Andrew M. gave it a 6:
This isn't a bad movie, but it's not a really great one either. There are a few genuinely funny moments (watching Stifler get pissed on was a highlight) but I was put off by too many strained moments where unfunny jokes were reworked into....other unfunny jokes. I was also confused by Seann William Scott's acting; at times his comedic timing was brilliant (in the lesbian house, for example) while in other scenes he came across as nothing more than a ham! I dunno. Eugene Levy on the other hand was outstanding. His innocent little 'pep' talks with his son are really the funniest scenes in the film and are the perfect antidote to the cruder, more base moments in the film. It's an ok film...it won't ruin an evening...but it won't necessarily make it one to remember either.

Jeremy gave it a 6:
I guess AP2 works because the jokes are still funny, and the other good attributes are still there, but the sequel feels more like a cheap laugh than a fresh comedy.

Richard C. gave it a 10:
Like the first, FUNNY AS HELL, but of course, it isn't as good as AP1. But sequels are never as good as the first. But then again, Jim and Stifler kiss. FUNNY AS HELL.

Plastic Barbie gave it a 9:
It was so funny. Ken, cindy and i were laughing all the way through. not as funny as american pie1. but still gr8.

Dan gave it a 10:
Like the first movie, very funny lots more stuff.

American Pie 2 Universal Pictures

American Pie 2
Universal Pictures