The movie American Pie depicts four seniors, close to graduating from high school, determined not to carry their virginity's with them to college and so they make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. The movie is directed by Paul Weitz and stars Jason Biggs, Chris Klein and Tara Reids and takes place around Michigan's East Great Falls High. The movie opens with high schooler Jim (Jason Biggs) being caught by his parents pleasuring himself in a tube sock while trying to watch a scrambled broadcast on an adult channel. By the End of this movie, all four seniors would have lost their virginity somehow or the other, and as a result with it learning more about themselves, their friendships, love, romance and the opposite sex.
The movie showed a lot of different aspects of high school life and for the most part, some of the characters in it could remind the audience of some high school buddies. It had everything from diarrhea, vomiting, voyeurism, pre
Comparing the movie American Pie to others in the past such as "Animal house" and last year's hit "Something about Mary" is something critic Todd McCarthy mostly talked about. As McCarthy put it " Last year's semen in the hair [ Something about Mary] has been replaced by semen in someone's beer." The critic had a fair feeling about this movie, as if he didn't hate it, but he didn't love it as did the other critics did. McCarthy called American Pie " the king of gross-out comedy" and felt that the movie was crude.
As Turan put it, "For one thing, this has got to be one of the least mean-spririted of recent American comedies." The critic points out the unexpected good feelings that this movie had and that it was sup rising to see in such a teenage film.
Another critic had nothing but compliments towards this movie. as Catherine Jheon put it "Finally, a really good teen flick!" She mentioned about all the gross gags used in the movie and still had some more praising to do. The crit
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