American Wedding (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: No Wonder Marriage Never Appealed To Me!
Review: After watching this movie I am even more convinced that the original "American Pie" film was a fluke....it worked....the other's in the series suffer from trying way too hard.

This film has all of the usual actors in their roles with Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan on their way to the altar. So while the women plan a wedding the "men" run around town still in search of sexual pleasure in all of its most inane of forms. Stifler (Sean William Scott) is full of his typical gross antics, this time with dogs, dog waste and a focus upon the only thing he seems capable of understanding.....sex. While most of the silliness and surprise of the original "Pie" film worked that same vulgar effort misses sorely in this film, basically just grossing people out with the worst of gags and a really stupid and entirely gratuitous T&A scene that could have easily been thrown on the editing floor.

The filmmakers were smart enough to stay with Eugene Levy, Molly Cheek, Fred Willard and Deborah Rush as the parents who birthed all of these nincompoops! The humor found in the older actors is the only redeeming quality of this movie. Maybe on the next "American Divorce," something will change!


Rating:
Summary: American Garbage
Review: The first movie in this trilogy is a classic, the second film was above average, this one is atrocious.
How could film critics give this movie good reviews? They had the premise right, focus most of the attention on Stifler...but in the first two films he was a wise-cracking smart aleck. In this one, he's just a loser and most of his hijinks are absolutely idiotic. The dance club scene-STUPID, the dog and ring scene- STUPID. The dog and food scene with Jim???
Every character in this film has changed for the worst...Sure Jim still gets caught in goofy situations, but his character has lost all his humor, he's so serious now. Michelle is far removed from her band camp days (minus the opening scene) Finch isn't funny, Kevin is pretty much eliminated from the script (that's the best part of the movie because his character has been worthless since the first film)...Michelle's parents are completely NOT believable and that Mr. Belvedere guy is a real hoot.
And now there's rumor out there that another film could be in the works...Michelle having a baby "American Family" Gee, can hardly wait to see what Stifler does inside a hospital, and Stifler's Mom can make another ridiculous cameo at the end.
Time to pull the plug on this series...should have done so before making this joke

Rating:
Summary: Abysmal - a new low
Review: I gave this DVD a quick spin (borrowed it, didn't buy it - thank GOD!) only because I'm a big Alyson Hannigan fan, and boy what a puerile MESS this movie is; I ended up fast-forwarding through 85% of the film and even then it was too long.
Alyson Hannigan is totally WASTED in this film - hardly even used, actually, much to its detriment - although even her considerable talents couldn't save this travesty. No, instead we're left with Jason Biggs and that gaggle of three-name actors who are the most witless, insipid and unpleasant screen performers in a long time. Talk about flop-sweat!! Watching these guys flail away in an effort to enliven the sagging, unfunny and juvenile script is akin to witnessing a really bad car wreck - you know you should avert your eyes, but you're stupefied with morbid interest. The writers obviously followed the hacker's trusty adage: "when in doubt - or simply out of ideas, use the "F" word, and profusely." Foul language flies like cake sprinkles in this sorry concoction - why anyone would debase themselves by participating in this project is beyond me. And the DVD extras? Who cares? The whole THING blows!! To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, "this is not a movie to be taken lightly, it should be tossed aside with great force."