American Pie . Tucson Weekly . 07-26-99

American Pie

DIRECTED BY: Paul Weitz

REVIEWED: 07-26-99

This is like a traditional teen-sex comedy with a real film trying to break through its sticky surface. Unfortunately, the real film only manages to produce the occasional speech that is quickly contradicted by the action of the teen-sex film. The story focuses on a group of male high-school friends who vow to lose their virginity before the prom. Then at the prom, they make speeches about how that's maybe not such a cool idea. Then they do it anyway. On the way there one of the boys secretly films a female high-school student as she undresses, and broadcasts it over the Internet. And of course there are no repercussions for this--at least not for him. I found that pretty creepy. While this is basically an amoral version of Diner for horny teenagers, it's reasonably funny (thanks in part to a hilarious performance by Eugene Levy).

--James DiGiovanna

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