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Reviews history, Why watch American Pie?
Would you suspect the directors answerable for the likes of Nutty Professor II, Twilight - New Moon, See This Film, and Little Fockers could have been accountable for providing among the best comedies the 90's had to supply? I realize, me possibly, but in spite of getting what I'd think about to be lackluster occupations at any time since, Chris and Paul Weitz are indeed those to thank for generating American Pie. I could blame them for inspiring Hollywood to show the franchise into an awful straight-to-DVD T&A expo, but I digress. Fact in the matter is, American Pie received a lot of praise upon its initial release and rightfully so. I remember laughing so hard in the theater that I wasn't sure if my pants were going for being dry after all was said and done. So, I certainly can't deny despite coming out mere months before the switch with the century, that this memorable comedy deserves its place amongst the memes with the 90's. That being said, I've seen a lot of enthusiasm on the internet for your release of this Blu-ray, to the point where I have to wonder if the power of nostalgia has taken too firm a grasp amongst the masses. Some have described this film as being a classic, iconic, original, and some even recall Stifler for being the funniest comedic character of all time. While I have much appreciation for American Pie and have fond memories in the first time I had seen it, I think much from thea single night stands, which is contrasted, of course, by another athlete that would rather grow up and find true love, the self-proclaimed 'sophisticated' dude, and last but not least, your average teen male that's trying to find his place in the world, but ends up putting himself in more awkward situations than he'd care to remember. Mix them together, add a little sugar, pinch on the crust, throw it in the oven and, tadaaa! You just made American Pie, a predictable feature that ultimately revolves around gross out humor and sex, dances with themes of maturing into adulthood, and tip-toes around the love stories that act as the excuse for presenting us with these shenanigans in the first place. Yeah, I wouldn't say this film qualifies as 'original', not by a long shot.
I understand it sounds like I'm coming down really hard on this film, but put the torches and pitchforks away - I'm merely trying for being objective here, and I doubt anyone else who's viewed this film objectively would disagree with me. It's just not an original film. However, what I'm absolutely not saying is that this is a bad film, because it's not. American Pie is the kind of film that sounds like it would be a dud on paper, but the finished product is a little deeper and more engaging than you would expect it for being. I mean, the 90's had been filled with Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey flicks that focused more on the goof than they did the heart, and the Farrelly brothers were a key ingredient in keeping that hollow formula going. Hollywood was creating a killing on cheap laughs that offered little to no context, and just when the genre desperately needed something to come along and break the mold, American Pie was there to fit the bill. That's the reason why this film is remembered by its fans so fondly over a decade after the fact. Not merely content in providing us with underage drinking parties, tits, extreme use of bodily fluids and depicting teens as party animals with no intelligence, American Pie actually set out to define its characters as people that we could relate to and ultimately care about, and what a relief that was. If you wanted to see teens depicted as actual human beings in the 90's, you needed to change to teen romance flicks like She's All That or 10 Things I Hate About You. Not that there's anything wrong with movies like that (I myself enjoyed them for what they were at the time), but they were clearly marketed for a female audience... but American Pie? It had something for everyone, and was even the perfect flick to see on date night.
Even with coming along and hitting all the right notes with as wide an audience as possible, that still doesn't make American Pie an iconic film, or even a 'classic'. These labels are thrown around casually nowadays, and why? Because anyone with an internet connection is using their writing to try and get you to think the same way that they do (no, the irony here isn't lost on me). 'Iconic' and 'classic' are words that add a bit of a 'wow factor' to any given point, but that doesn't make such a point any more true. Iconic can only be used for a very select handful of films, so let's just work on 'classic' and its reference to American Pie - When I think of a 'classic', one particular in the most important factors at play is the test of time, and honestly, I really don't think this film withstands that test very well. For one, the soundtrack dates the film a great deal. In hindsight, a traditional score would have helped to extend the accessibility of this film. This is the kind of film that probably could have appealed to numerous generations if there weren't so many audible 'time stamps' all over the place, but I doubt that in 30 years people are going to get looking back on American Pie as fondly as they do today. As far as withstanding the test of time though, the biggest issue I found after revisiting this film is simply a matter of age - Now that I'm 30 years old, the whole high-school, get laid turned love story thing just doesn't really appeal to me anymore. It's not just American Pie, but other teen party flicks like Can't Hardly Wait have also lost their appeal with me over time. If I can't enjoy this film from teen to old age, I really don't see how a film like this can earn a title like 'classic'. Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Ben-Hur, Citizen Kane... now those are classics.
This is a good film that was made even better by the timing of its release, whether the creators of American Pie knew it at the time or not. But even with its merit as a film in 1999, the simple fact from the matter is that this Blu-ray comes 13 years after the fact and the film hasn't aged as well as I'd personally have hoped. It's still funny and the characters still have a story worth telling, but certain elements from the film have lost the power of their initial punch. The likes of Jackass and South Park have desensitized me from this film's gross out humor, and the age barrier doesn't allow me to relate with these characters like I used for being able to. I know the concept of time may not affect everyone's viewing experience, so all I can really say is this - American Pie doesn't deserve the accolades it's been given very generously by its fans over the internet. With only a single decade under its belt, now is really the appropriate time to begin your assessment as to whether this film truly is a timeless piece of work or not. As far as this reviewer? I still had a great time and it was worth watching again for old time's sake, but this will probably end up being a single of my last servings of Pie.
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