a fine piece of movie

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 2001)

"American Pie" is a film that has been taken at face value by most of its target audience. To many, it is simply a film about four friends trying to get laid before they graduate high school and go on to bigger and better things (well, maybe, let's see the sequel). But I believe that the writers and the concievers had something else in mind. If they wanted to do another sex comedy, they could have done a remake of "Losin' It" or "Porky's" or something else from the '80s. Instead, they found a way to incorporate those entertaining tactics into a film with a finely developed coming-of-age message. The sex part is really just to keep the viewer watching.

I'm pretty sure that I'm right because 90% of the people I have talked to that are part of a face-value generation have said that "there's something there" and that it "has a message".
"American Pie" could be called an organized sex comedy. But I think it's an organized drama. The ending was a fine one--something that I could relate to as I am saying goodbye to my friends in High School and heading onto bigger and better things. Yep, I guess I'm starting the second film of my life, and maybe we all will understand the message of "American Pie" when we finish it. Anyway, highly recommended.