 |
American Pie| Director: | Paul Weitz | | Writer: | Adam Herz | | Universal Pictures; 100 minutes; R | | Release: | 7/99 | | Cast: | Seann Scott, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein |
Aficionados consider film the finest of the arts, combining the visual impact of painting with dance's movement, a writerly attention to the spoken word, and carefully integrated sound. Chris and Paul Weitz, makers of post-Porky's smutfest American Pie, beg a different interpretation. For them, film is a sexual attractant, a lurid concoction of raunch and innuendo and guffaws of shame-faced guilt that entices pimply boys and their adult counterparts to the theater. Somewhere in Michigan a small gang of young male stereotypes decide to vanquish their self-imposed inadequacies by losing their virginity before high school graduation. The titular dessert isn't just one gratuitous body pun among many; it is also the “partner” of one of the boys whose auto-erotic adventures are invariably truncated by his father's abrupt entrances. Bathroom humor fitted with hasty editing and a half-finished plot.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on American Pie from Infoplease:
- American Pie - Starring Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein
- Shannon Elizabeth - Biography of Shannon Elizabeth, Nadia in the movie American Pie
- Shannon Elizabeth - Biography of Shannon Elizabeth, Nadia in the movie American Pie
- Movies: Back to School: 1 - Quiz: Back to School Movies Check out our Back to School resources! Question 1: What pair of young ...
- Alyson Hannigan - Biography of Alyson Hannigan, Willow on TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer
|
|
