American Pie : Movie Review


American Pie (1999)  - Movie Poster"American Pie" is the darndest thing. Both warmhearted and foul-mouthed, this unlooked-for hybrid of "South Park" and Andy Hardy uses its surface crudeness as sucker bait to entice teenage audiences into the tent to see a movie that is as sweet and sincere at heart as anything Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ever experienced.
As a card-carrying contemporary youth comedy, "American Pie" does have its gross-out credentials in what you might call apple pie order. Front and center are jokes about voyeurism, diarrhea, premature ejaculation, the drinking of beer with a semen chaser and, in the film's signature moment, masturbation with one of those homemade pies.

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Author : Kenneth Turan