American Wedding
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9
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60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Is this sophisticated humor? No. But it is pretty entertaining. Read full review
60
Film ThreatDavid Grove
Works because it pays tribute to these characters. I knew that American Wedding couldn’t be as funny as "American Pie 2" just as that film wasn’t as funny as "American Pie." Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The familiar formula feels significantly watered-down the third time around. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack 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
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Best of all, though, is Seann William Scott as the profoundly annoying, profoundly vulgar Stifler. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke 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
50
Village VoiceDavid 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
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Some gut-busting moments, but for the most part the thrill is gone. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianRoger Moore
Junk this is and ever was, but this is well-acted junk. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley 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
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie 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
50
Baltimore SunChris 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
50
Chicago ReaderJ.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
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Suffers from a lack of good gags. That’s not to say there aren’t 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 Weitz’s original slice of Pie just aren’t there. Read full review
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