Good But Only Just

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 1999)

Sometimes I laughed, sometimes I cringed, sometimes I creaked in my chair hoping for the film to pull itself out of "Dawson's Creek Mode"
"American Pie" is nothing more than a childish comedy with a supposed morale-edge. This morale-tone fades with every scene as the perfect-skinned girls and our troupe of heros eventually "get it on".
Far from being hopeless, "AP" trips itself up by being too lewd. It begins to stutter and grind as the ending approaches and before long even the enthusiastic members of the audience began to realise the film was running out of steam.
Not bad, not good: but still worth it for *that* scene.