Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion.
Warning: contains Jason Biggs’ wang and the contents of Stifler’s bowels. Happily, the fourth, funny, (possibly) final serving of American Pie is also warm and nostalgic enough to satisfy.
Eugene Levy, as the chief Pie-abuser’s dad, contributes a brief moment of comedy horror with a tip about erectile dysfunction, but the rest of the movie feels awfully stale.
After this reunion the only kindly option is retirement.
Ultimately, like seeing old school friends, Reunion presents a good time with a wave of comforting nostalgia but leaves cool reflection that we have all moved on.
That most of the jokes revolve around the same horn-dog antics that were amusing when the cast was in its teens and early twenties is just sad and weird now they’re grown up. Like most school reunions, this one’s best avoided.
The old bittersweet tone is gone, replaced by the sickly sweet and the downright tasteless.
Well, there are a few gags. But inevitably, the guys wind up sentimentally telling each other they should do this every year. Please no.
The movie only flies – and it does have its disarming moments – when the comic timing of the more seasoned players is allowed to motor scenes along.
Though directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg succeed in bring a few fresh touches to the comedy franchise, it all feels rather disco dad and past it.
However uneven the humour, for those of us who grew up with these characters, it’s great to see the old gang back together.
While it offers little that’s revelatory (save for Jim’s exposed manhood!) American Pie: Reunion is a consistently enjoyable and often laugh-out-loud crowd-pleaser.
Like most class reunions, this one is better in anticipation than in the event.
A crass reunion.
The first couple of servings back in the day were fresh and fruity, but the franchise has been left on the shelf a little too long. It’s occasionally entertaining to have these characters back in our lives, but for the most part this fails to party like it’s 1999.
Catching up with old friends is always fun...until you remember why it's been so long since you last saw them.
More pie in your eye...
Serving up a fresh portion of American pie
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