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American Pie (1999)
Director: Paul Weitz
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Notorious for the ludicrous masturbation scene which gives the film its title, this Farrelly-like jock comedy begins as it means to go on, with Jim (Biggs) discovered by his parents unscrambling cable porn and sporting a sock on his 'third foot'. Though Jim and his buddies make a pact to lose their virginity before the climax of the graduation ball, the wanking continues apace. The adolescent male is an ugly thing to behold, but ripe for comic humiliation. Weitz's film is enough to put you off having kids. The strange thing is, while it's told very much from the boys' point of view, the humour is almost entirely at their expense, and actually quite sensitive to a woman's needs. If this isn't feminist, exactly, at least it's laddism reconstructed. Nevertheless, it's still a crude piece of work, spottily acted and directed, albeit lifted by two or three outrageous set-pieces.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Paul Weitz
Producer: Warren Zide, Craig Perry, Chris Moore, Chris Weitz
Cast: Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Clyde Kusatsu, Seann W Scott full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 96 mins
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