The sexual awakening of four college bound friends.

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 1999)

I felt this film was going to mine the same idiotic and dated material which Porky's covered nearly twenty years ago but I was pleasantly surprised it didn't. What I found was a humorous and adolescent romp through the trials which four males on the cusp of manhood have to travail. While many critics have unjustly compared American Pie's gross out factor to last year's There's Something About Mary, a film which rests squarely in the surreal and twisted category, Pie makes a good and solid argument that the fumblings of sexual awareness among teens is at once hideously awkward (parents discovering their son's masturbatory predilections) and uniquely mature (a girl realizing her suitor may not be what he seems). Some may carp that the ending satisfies all concerned just to tie up some loose ends but I think it really is a case of 'to the victors go the spoils.' Not everyone wins, not everyone loses, but hopefully everyone learned.