A surprisingly original and occasionally thoughtful teen 'epic'

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2008)

American Pie (1999)
Rated R for crude sexual humour, nudity, language and sex references
When watching such films, I tend to be critical and highly scrutinising, however, 'American Pie' is sort of a surprise. This is quite a good film and does have traces of originality and quality.
While 'American Pie' includes your usually crude humour, pervasive sexual references and considerable nudity, it does stop and think at times, something that is extremely rare amongst films of this kind.
There are some scenes of gross-out humour that will guarantee, what I like to call a 'laughing spree'. What makes 'American Pie' stand out from other dull, unfocused teenage movies, is that, apart from being extremely funny, cleverly written and having a well-suited cast, is the fact that it does show friendships, thoughts, differences in teenagers, without just being focused on meaningless nudity and sex all the time.
This is a film for pure enjoyment and humour, a film that clearly demonstrates the thoughts of the average teenager, along with comedy, nudity and some American Pie.
7/10