"American Pie 2": Classic or CLASSIC?

DUD DUD DUD DUD AND DUD. dead-end jokes that were wholly based around mentioning jokes from the last movie ('remember that thing on the internet?' [pause for laughter] 'stifler's mom!' [pause for laughter] 'band camp!' [pause for laughter]); shannon elizabeth's non- acting; the waste of chris klein's goofy talent (i think he's quite a good actor actually); the messenger bags that rested under tara reid's eyes, which makeup i guess hoped would be ignored thanks to her jeans' exposure of her hip bones; tara reid's attempts at 'acting'; that whole stupid phone sex subplot; etc, etc, etc. it was totally a movie, but really, was it worth the amount of money ($0) i paid to see it? i don't think so.

and don't forget the soundtrack, featuring all the crappy alt-rock of today, and, inexplicably, the lead track from the afghan whigs' '1965.'

alyson hannigan's scenes were the only bits of life in it. and maybe jason biggs gets points for deep-throating a doorknob. BUT THAT IS IT.

It wasn't so much resting on jokes from the ols one as it was building history off of the old one. It certainly wasn't "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me", where they took the exact same movie and added a midget and a bunch of shit-eating scene.

Plus "BBC7" = gratest song evah written (or wuz that in AP1?)

Tara Reid was barely in the movie long enough to stink up the joint. Alyson...ah...

...debatable, I find Heather Graham frighteningly unattractive in a Stepford Wife/creepy ass Cupie doll sort of way. Plus, she somehow managed to give a worse performance than Liz Hurley - how, I have no clue; she should get a special award for it.

AP2 = worst film ever made.

Plus "BBC7" = gratest song evah written (or wuz that in AP1?)

It was in AP1, which had an all around better soundtrack: I Touch Myself, Carnival, Mas Que Nada, BBC, Incence and Peppermints, The Female of the Species, The Look of Love...AP2 just had a so-so Madonna track.

or otherwise you'd have people walking around looking at each other and saying, 'oh, i'm a frayed knot!'

p.s. hi there, everyone. thanks for the welcome back, although really, i never left, i've just been lurky.

I thought that was the entire basis of the All Your Base phenomenon though.

I thought that was the entire basis of the All Your Base phenomenon though.

A-ha! See, I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUVED the "All Your Base" thing. I've had to forcibly excise "What you say!!!" from my vocablary because people were starting to think I was really, really stupid.

Heather Graham wasn't in AP2, what are you talking about, Ally? Mena Suvari? She is nasty. Natasha Lyonne didn't look very good in this one either. Tara Reid, who only looks good in so much makeup you can hardly see her face, and Shannon Elizabeth both looked way better than they did in the first. American Pie 2 was the perfect sequel: just enough referencing of the first (it was one of the defining moments of my generation, of course you're gonna reference the hell out of it); it never strayed from its successful formula (new gags often better than old, e.g. Stifler getting pissed on and later bragging about it); Chris Klein and Suvari, who really suck, were hardly used; Sean Michael Scott, the best actor of our generation, was milked for all he was worth, and basically made the movie.

And if you're going to talk about Stifler, at least spell his name right. SEANN William Scott. Sweet!

Anyhow, Mena Suvari isn't that bad. She's much less nasty than, say, Molly Ringwald.

Conclusion? Uh, I laughted lots, but it didn't stick with me.

Speaking of which, the second AP was better, except for Fat Bastard, than the first, precisely because it kept the same gags but pushed them, inverting them and thus at once surprising and achiving recognition-shock.

I had a great day today -- paycheck, enabling me to pay bills, rent, buy toothpaste, steak and single malt scotch. steak was as good as i've ever made -- perfect combo of garlic, cloves, soy, pepper in a london broil. scotch was absurdly cheap. good easy project at work. house is clean.

Then i rented this movie and yeah lets talk about it -- the whole bachelor party bit was a slight letdown at the end, but pitchperfect farce for an absurdly long time (esp. the unrated version) and the stifler thing was cranked up too much at first but paid off bigtime at the end and the sweetness was wistfully pitchperfect except i thought "wait the characters in the movie are as old as i am and they're getting married! i'm going to die alone!" but squelched that thought quick.

I just wish Alyson Hannigan had gotten way more screentime and comedic work than she did and the wedding cake scene was sorta gratuitous.

(actually, they are both horrible)

It never ends!

http://gawker.com/5849553/american-reunion-oh-that-old-joke-again

On May 18, 2011, a casting call went out for the character "Kara", a role that involved "upper frontal nudity".[27] New England Patriots wide receiver Chad Ochocinco has a cameo.[28][29]

congrats Ochocinco on your cameo as Kara

congratulations Perry on your classic movie to anticipate.

I never saw American Wedding, I realize

Wedding won a lot of goodwill by opening with an amazing ten minutes of unrestrained stiflerism, and for being generally affectionate enough about its characters that it thought seeing Biggs and Hannigan getting married would be a sweet premise to build a trilogy-conclusion around. But it pisses huge amounts of that away with a terrible bachelor party scene that plainly exists for no reason other than to get a whole load of tits on screen for the trailers*; and by suddenly panicking that it hadn’t included any gross-out stuff and, at the wedding itself, having a) the characters regress five years in order that Jim can be goaded into shaving his pubes – by a window, in the middle of the day, so that the trimmings fly out and stick to the cake – and b) Stifler eat a bunch of dogshit.

If they’d skipped those and included a subplot about any travails or nervousness or problems Hannigan’s character went through in the leadup to the wedding, I’d remember it warmly.

*unpleasant, fake, hard tits, belonging to Iain Ziering’s wife. The “uncut” home video version apparently just had more tit-screen-acreage.

oh, and January Jones plays Hannigan's teenage sister, who bones Stifler while he still has dogshit in his teeth, possibly.

so it's not exactly Lubitsch then?

i hate these movies.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:22 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

On May 18, 2011, a casting call went out for the character "Kara", a role that involved "upper frontal nudity".[27] New England Patriots wide receiver Chad Ochocinco has a cameo.[28][29]

congrats Ochocinco on your cameo as Kara

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LMphcLjUE