American Pie

Plot synopsis:
American Pie, set in the year 1999, focuses on a group of four close friends in their senior year at the fictional East Great Falls High School in west Michigan; Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (Chris Klein), Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) and Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who is better known by his surname. Kevin is confident and charming and is dating his long-term girlfriend, Vicky Lathum (Tara Reid); Oz is a laid-back member of the high school lacrosse team; Jim is socially awkward and sexually naïve and suffers pressure and questionable advice from his father (Eugene Levy); while Finch is a cappuccino-drinking sophisticate who plays golf and wears sports jackets. The four have very differing personalities, but share a common characteristic; they are all virgins, in sharp contrast to popular lacrosse player and arrogant jock Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott), whose wild, extravagant house parties they are regularly invited to.While at one of Stifler's such parties, the four each attempt to score with various girls at the party with very limited success. Oz is humiliated by an older girl, Finch is too late for the party and Jim attempts to talk to Czechoslovakian exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), but fails completely. Kevin receives fellatio from Vicky, but she overhears him complaining about it to Jim and promptly dumps him. The next morning, the four wake up hungover and depressed, to find ultra-nerd Chuck "Sherminator" Sherman (Chris Owen) seeing off a pretty girl, and are left shocked and frustrated when The Sherminator claims that he lost his virginity to her the same night. Kevin decides to take a stand and defiantly declares that the four will make a pact, to lose their virginity before the school prom and graduation. Later, while eating breakfast in a restaurant, they toast each other to 'the next step' and formulate individual plans to achieve sexual success.Kevin immediately sets out to win Vicky back, but has to work very hard to even get a chance with her, and begins to seek advice from others. Vicky's best friend Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) reveals to Kevin that, despite his thinking otherwise, Vicky has never felt an orgasm from Kevin, and that he has to work on that above everything else. His older brother Tom (Casey Affleck) then passes onto Kevin the secret of 'The Bible' - a manual of love and sex compiled by various East Great Falls students over several decades. Both Jessica and Tom divulge their advice only after Kevin stresses he wants to make Vicky happy, rather than simply taking advantage of her for his pact. Kevin finally seizes a chance to make things up with Vicky, and performs oral sex on her in her bedroom using his new techniques. Vicky experiences an intense orgasm and is driven wild by Kevin, winning him the promise of sex at the prom after-party in the process.Meanwhile, Oz joins the school's jazz choir in an effort to lose his stereotyped reputation as a muscleheaded lacrosse jock and find a loving girlfriend there. He is mocked relentlessly at first by his friends and the other choir members, but soon wins the attention of Heather (Mena Suvari), one of the choir singers who also suffers being stereotyped as a priss. She swiftly asks him out to the prom with her, but changes her mind upon seeing Stifler and his friends mocking her, and assuming Oz was doing the same. A desperate Oz volunteers to become lead vocalist alongside Heather to try and regain her trust. He succeeds when she catches him tirelessly rehearsing alone in the theatre, and pays him a visit after-hours at the sandwich bar he works at to reconcile. Their relationship is dealt another blow when Oz realizes his last ever lacrosse game for East Great Falls clashes with the choir competition, but a frustrated Oz decides to abandon the game halfway-through and rushes over to the music hall, where he makes it just in time. He performs the long-awaited duet with Heather to rapturous applause from the audience, including Kevin and Jim themselves.After Oz describes third base to Jim as "like warm apple pie", a curious Jim temporarily loses his sanity and has full missionary sex with a freshly-baked apple pie left on the table by his mother (giving the film its eponymous title). His father walks in on the act and is left stunned and disappointed by his son's actions. Now almost without hope, Jim has a stroke of luck when Nadia, seemingly at random, asks him if she can come round to his house and study with him. After dropping the crucial detail that she'll be coming straight from ballet practice and will need to change, Stifler persuades Jim to set up a webcam in his room so that they can all watch Nadia stripping together over the internet. Upon Nadia's arrival, Jim sets up the webcam and dashes across the street to join Kevin and Finch at Kevin's house. Against expectation, an almost-naked Nadia discovers Jim's pornography collection and begins to passionately masturbate on his bed, causing a riotous reaction from Stifler, Kevin and Finch on the other end, as well as Stifler's young brother Matt (Eli Marienthal).Kevin and Finch force Jim to go back and seduce her while the moment lasts, which ends with Nadia forcing Jim to strip and dance for her while she reads his pornography. By now, various groups of East Great Falls seniors, including members of Blink 182, are watching the live action in excited anticipation, as Sherman reveals that Jim accidentally addressed the webcam link to everybody in the entire school directory. Nadia then seduces Jim and sits him down next to her on the bed, but unfortunately, he prematurely ejaculates, disappointing Nadia and completely grossing out his live web audience. A desperate Jim pleads for Nadia not to go and wins her around, but when Nadia takes her panties off, he involuntarily ejaculates again upon touching her clitoris. Nadia swiftly exits, leaving Jim a nervous wreck.The next day, Jim has become the laughing stock of the entire high school and is left despondent and depressed, especially upon hearing that Nadia has been immediately sent back home to Czechoslovakia by her sponsors after the incident. However, he senses luck when unpopular band geek Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) randomly begins to talk to him. Upon revealing she knows nothing about the webcam incident, he seizes the opportunity to ask her out to the prom with him, which she gleefully accepts.Finch at first appears to have no plan, but Kevin's suspicions arise when corroborative rumours begin flying around the school that Finch has legendary sexual prowess, has had relations with older women, and that he even knocked out Stifler in a fight. Kevin investigates and discovers that Finch paid Jessica $200 to spread the rumours under the pretense of truth. Finch quickly becomes the most talked-about and most awe-inspiring senior in the whole school, with hordes of girls desperate to go to the prom with him. However, Stifler, angry about the rumours against him, spikes Finch's mochaccino with laxatives, and promptly dupes him into using the girls' restroom, where Finch suffers explosive diarrhea in the presence of several senior girls. Afterwards, he emerges to a torrent of mockery, laughter and abuse from a hysterical crowd of seniors, with Stifler at the helm, and is left humiliated, broken and completely dateless.The prom night finally comes around. Finch is the only one of the four who attends alone, but Jessica, also alone and feeling guilty for taking his money, offers to dance with him, even giving him a brand new hip flask as a gift for his troubles. The prom itself is cheap, tacky and uneventful and derided by most of the students, but a cocky, bragging Kevin sees it as a good time to query his friends for a "status check" on their pact. Oz and Finch are disinterested, and a burnt-out Jim lets loose and rages at Kevin for causing all the pressure, insisting that sex isn't at all as important as they previously made out. The outburst shatters Kevin's bravado and makes him wonder whether things will truly go as planned between him and Vicky. However, their spirits are all collectively lifted, when Chuck Sherman's partner at the prom gets up onto the stage and announces in front of everybody that Chuck is a liar and is actually still a virgin. Chuck wets himself in embarrassment, and the four boys excitedly catch the bus to Stifler's huge post-prom party at his mansion on Lake Michigan.As the party begins to gain traction, the four boys all individually fulfill their pact with almost no conscious effort. Kevin and Vicky go to an upstairs bedroom where they finally have sex for the first time, but their desires for perfection and timing cause the interaction to become rigid and awkward throughout. While walking along the lakeside, an emotional Oz confesses the pact to Heather, who becomes wary, but he renounces the pact and declares that he's already won just by being with her at the prom. They passionately embrace each other at the dockside, naturally and fluidly moving into their first sexual experience. Meanwhile, Jim is snoozing through Michelle's immature band camp stories, but chokes on his drink when she reveals she knows more about orgasms than she's letting on. Michelle leads him upstairs, where she reveals she actually knew all along about the webcam incident, only accepting Jim's date because he was a "sure thing". Jim finally gets to have disaster-free sex, but Michelle is dominant and violently aggressive, shouting abuse at Jim, roughing him up and smashing things up with her hands and feet out of sheer passion. Finally, a bored Finch wanders around restricted areas of the house and bumps into Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge), whose aura and natural beauty takes him aback. After some sophisticated, upper-class conversation and flirting, she becomes aroused by Finch's precociousness, and they proceed to make love on the snooker table as the party goes on through the night.Dawn breaks early the next morning over Stifler's mansion, which is littered with sleeping seniors. Oz watches the sun rise with a smile as Heather snuggles into his lap at the lakeside, the couple looking extremely content. Kevin and Vicky are also awake, but both are contemplative and neither seem happy. Vicky amicably breaks up with Kevin, citing their separation due to their choice of university and the physical distance it causes, a topic she discussed earlier with Jessica. Kevin is left saddened, but accepts Vicky's reasoning. Meanwhile, Jim wakes up and goes to cuddle Michelle in bed, only to find himself hugging an inflatable toy shark with no Michelle in sight. He quickly realizes Michelle used and abused him for a sordid one night stand, but is left brimming with happiness at how cool the prospect of being used is. Finally, Finch is asleep with Stifler's mom when a hungover Stifler enters the room; he is so shocked at the sight that he collapses and passes out.Later on, Kevin, Oz, Jim and Finch all go to their favorite hang-out restaurant, the fittingly-named "Dog Years", for breakfast. Far from celebrating their pact with stories, they all remain very conservative and hushed about their experiences the night before, with Oz gleefully refusing to even confirm whether he had sex or not. Regardless, the four lads are now collectively happier than they ever were before, and once again toast each other to 'the next step' as they prepare to leave high school and move away to university.The film ends with Jim setting up his webcam in his room once again, and stripping and dancing to country music. Nadia is on the other end, back in her home country, smiling and laughing at Jim. His father walks in on the act, but sees the funny side. He walks out and starts dancing down the corridor, presumably to make love to his wife, as he seductively mutters "sweetheart!".

Tags: comedy, fantasy, boring, adult comedy, stupid, bleak, cult, flashback, humor, entertaining

Review:
I have to say that the most fun I had at the movies this summer was when I saw American Pie, the funniest picture I've seen since last summer's There's Something About Mary.
I have a feeling Klein is going to be Hollywood's next big thing and I hope he has a chance to flex his acting muscles in some different movies (I can definitely see this guy in an action film).Also very good is Jason Biggs who plays the sympathetic Jim character, the guy who is least likely to lose his virginity.
I wish them all well, but I find it hard to see them all thriving outside a high-school environment (which is good, because it indicates that they all play their roles with a great deal of endearing believability).It'll certainly give you something to talk about with your mates, and it'll make you think about things, too.
The scenes in the previews (the ones you think will ruin the movie for you) are expounded on ten-fold, so there are plenty of surprises.During the movie I kept saying, "This is me and my friends when we were in high school!" They were almost the same conversations about life, sex and girls; just not as frequently, but it's only a two-hour film.
It adds a needed depth to a film like this, where it's not just raw, raunchy comedy, but important to the lives of the characters who know more than sex is at stake.
American Pie is a fairly good movie,with good humor and a funny storyline,its a total teenage movie but its better than average ones.The story lines sort of stupid and the characters are extremely immature for there age,but thats what makes it so funny and definitely better than the sequels.After there friend loses his virginity,for friends all promise to lose there virginity before they graduate,with the prom coming up,its the perfect opportunity for them,but it proves more difficult than they thought.-DILLON HARRIS.
'American Pie' set the bar for teen sex comedies.
"So high school boys everywhere only think about sex, huh?" my Japanese wife turned to me and said about 20 minutes into "American Pie." She looked at me expectantly, as if she wanted to hear me say I was somehow different, above such base pursuits.
I could tell she was mildly disappointed when I replied, "Yeah, pretty much." Eighteen-year-old boys' raging hormones is a truly universal theme.There have been four American Pie films to date, not counting the straight-to-video releases.
The great American sex comedy?" I still cringe when I remember that.If you haven't seen it, it is basically about four senior boys who make a pact to lose their virginity before they graduate high school.
The boys, particularly Jim, have a series of embarrassing mishaps along the way, one famously involving a warm apple pie."American Pie" set a new bar for teen comedies.
Every teen comedy since has tried, and failed, to top the scene where Stifler unwittingly drinks a beer with a load of semen in it.Though "American Pie" is famous for its numerous gross-outs, the movie is good, and not just gross, because we come to identify with the characters, and the humor rises naturally from the situations.
The scene where Stifler slips laxatives into Finch's mochaccino, causing him to make a desperate dash for the nearest toilet, is funny not because fart sounds are humorous, but because the film already established Finch's aversion for public restrooms.The Stifler character was especially believable.
Heather misinterprets this as Stifler making fun of her, when Stifler was really just trying to embarrass Oz. When I first saw the film at the age of 16, I thought, That's pretty much how high school boys act.The acting is serviceable.
American pie has an absolute all star cast led by the Great Jason biggs Anyone who enjoys comedy, teen comedy must see this movie!
If you are a person easily offended by a film dedicated primarily to the glory of teen sex, you may well view "American Pie" as yet another in a long line of cinematic harbingers of the collapse of western civilization.
If, however, you remember adolescence as essentially a period of unending coitus interruptus, you may well find yourself engrossed by this amusing, though admittedly crude, series of sexual and scatalogical gags woven around a plot involving the desperate attempts of a quartet of last semester seniors to lose their virginity on the fast approaching sexual armageddon known as "prom night.""American Pie" gleans most of its comic energy from its outrageous examination of the crazy and innovative extremes desperately horny teens will go to in order to experience the thrill of sex in lieu of the real thing.
An attractive, game cast helps to mitigate the crudity of many of their actions and the filmmakers' lighthearted tone encompasses the characters in such a cloak of affection that the audience identifies with, rather than condemns, their antics.As meager compensation for the moralists among us, the film does heavily promote the use of condoms and comes up with even more creative prophylactics for those times when a partner is not available."American Pie" is certainly not for every taste and there are those who would argue that it serves a less than salutary purpose as a guide for already sex-obsessed teenagers.
American Pie starts right off with shock value, and while the film relies heavily on it, there's plenty of story and exceptional performances to hold your interest.
However the perils of that first time are all too evident.The next step in gross out teen comedies was a film entirely focused on dirty jokes and rude set ups.
The problem is that, unless you are in the mood for really bad taste comedy then you'll probably hate this.The jokes and scenes are all crude and it's hard not to get taste fatigue during the film.
American Pie was a gruesome experience for me because the first time I watched it was with my best friend's older brother and father.
With hindsight it was absolutely worth every minute of agony, because the film is such a powerful staple on the raunchy teen comedy wall of fame today and surely one of the most laugh-out-loud worthy films in my DVD collection (which isn't saying much since I have a total of like 20 films but still).Its premise and execution both bluntly rehash Porky's but it also updates and modernizes its humour, settings and characters.
Except teenage boys(and confused middle aged men) who likes to look at half naked teenage girls, or women in their late 20's playing teenagers.basically its a movie about a group of teenagers who wants to lose their virginity before they graduate high school.
Don't waste your time, money, sanity on this what i fear will become an American cult movie in 10 years.I pray that one day a director will update the concept of "teen movies", movies that will actually portray how it is to be a teenager.
it was my father's insinuation that I wanted to see it.How anyone can like this movie is beyond me: the plot is highly unoriginal, Just looking at half of the cast makes me want to vomit violently, and the "dialogue" sounds like a foul-mouthed 14-year old wrote it.If you want an intelligent movie with actual laughs, watch anything BUT this.0/10.
Since the likes of 'Animal house' and 'Porky's' i've waiting for another movie that confronts the funny side of of teenage life, in particular the sexual dilemmas we all have to face at some point in our teens.
With some truly hilarious characters and some terrific dialogue, this film will have you in stitches, and contains scenes that will be laughed about for years.As teen comedy films go, this is up there with the best of them, highly recommended 9/10.
You'd need to be between the ages 12 to 16 to find this film funny.I'm 15 and how many times did I laugh?None.Nada.Zip.Some of the acting is excrutiatingly bad and the ''pie'' scene was just disgusting.It was as funny as a sledgehammer to the face and than a chainsaw through the back of your head.Tara Reid was the only good person in it..
If done correctly, they can be clever (see South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) but in this case, the film just seemed like an excuse to show teens having sex.
The constant flow of vulgar and sexual oriented "fun" is not enough to keep some one entertained for the duration of the movie.The one or two times that you laugh is more to hide your shame than, because it is funny.The film seems to be a collection of random scenes only loosely connected by the plot.
Movies like American Pie.Did I skip an era when stuff like this is supposed to be funny?
Are movie producers stooping to a level of comedy that would entertain a caveman?American Pie focuses solely on sex-based jokes.
They discovered a way to earn millions from feeding pigeons.Hell, if you want to hear a sex joke, I have friends that will tell them for free.I don't only want a refund on the ticket I paid to watch this movie, but I also want the two hours of my life back that I wasted watching it..
As I am not an American teenager myself, I failed to grasp the sense of the entire movie, I am afraid.Further, I feel somewhat uneasy that I have watched it at all.Hence I comment on this title: anyone over the age of 20, not American, who is not likely to laugh about bad language and noises coming from peoples' body cavities, skip this one as I should have done myself.Why is it, that since Grease nobody could come up with a somewhat intelligent take on high school students and their major issue (a.k.a get a girl/boyfriend quick before the party/end of semester).The characters are uninteresting and unreal, the story is simply dumb.There is only hype around this film because there is a tendency to cheer on vulgarity nowadays instead of admitting you simply feel insulted and think it misplaced and ridiculous..
In my opinion, "American Pie" isn't so funny as some people said.
The plot was dull and clichéd, involving the dumb and forgettable experiences from a group of teens who made the promise to have their first sex experience before the end of the year.Most of the jokes from this movie were dumb and unfunny, and plot was way too predictable for my personal taste.
This Movie made me Feel Old. American Pie was the FIRST teenage/high school flick I saw in my life where watching it actually made me feel old.
The teens in the theater were laughing their heads off, probably thinking that AP was brand new and original, when in reality it is old, old, old, tired and cliche.I saw AP with two friends, one guy was exactly my age and I looked at him and knew he hated AP for the same reasons I did.
Poor guy, I guess he can be forgiven, when you are 20 a lot of people still think of themselves as "teens" and can still watch movies like this.
Millions of REAL teens in 1999(unlike my friend who was 20) will cherish "American Pie" as "their film" a hallmark of their growing years and something that made them "come of age".
American Pie, is not one of those typical teenage movies, it actually deals with the things we want to hear about, me being an 18 year old- first year out girl, knows that senior year was so about all the stuff American Pie deals with!!
If your a teenager and don't mind a bit of gross, sexual related humour, then you'll LOVE American Pie. Why must we continue to endure the sick fantasies of loser Hollywood producers?.
Even when I was 12 I really didn't like kids or teenagers that much because I though they were completely stupid and so foolish, actually laughing at the sex and toilet humor that they think is hilarious.
Sex is a deep expression of love and something that should not be taken lightly, especially since the only reason they want to screw you is to for their own pleasure, or their own sick goals, like in this noble movie(ew).
The characters and situations which occur are very unrealistic and I believe this movie is an example of how little creativity and intelligence people require these days to create or act in a film..
This kind of films have a lot of non sense jokes about sex or any idiot thing you like.
Fans of this movie keep saying that people who dislike American Pie are easily offended snobs.
When i saw this movie i felt like the only sober person in a room full of drunks, what's supposed to be funny with this piece of junk.
People would think, "Oh, this guy must be old not to have liked this movie!"  I'm 16.
Or, if you still want to see a good sex comedy, go out and rent Porky's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, or National Lampoon's Animal House..
This movie was supposed to be a comedy, so when does it start getting funny?
"American Pie" may be the best teen movie ever made.
Star Wars is one of the last refuges to the ideas that noble beliefs can still be shown on the Big Screen and still be entertaining, gripping, and interesting.And, what was even more offensive was in a commerical for 'American Pie', it had people singing 'How Sweet it is' to pies(something you'd have to watch the movie to understand).
American pie was porky's from the 90s a ribald gross out comedy about teenagers desperate to lose their virginity before they graduate from high school the result is a sweet but generally gross out comedy which overplays on sex and less about comedy a laughed but but not enough to recommend it enthusiastically .
The main character in this movie, Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs), is a senior in high school and he is urging his girlfriend, Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), to have sex with him.
¡°inappropriate things.¡± It is a stereotyped movie that adds funny scenes concerning high school, senior prom, and sex.
This teenage comedy about a group of four senior high school students trying to lose their virginity is the funniest thing ever.From maximising the wonders of the internet, to a cup of beer that has a strange distinctive taste, this movie will have you in stitches.This new method of gross out humour, has become very successful in recent years.
He has sex with a pie, drinks a drink with sperm in it, has premature ejaculation TWICE (which his whole school sees), has his parents catch him with a full erection, does a truly stupid dance to turn a girl on which are his friends playing a joke on him...are you laughing hysterically yet?
The only really funny thing in the whole movie was Eugene Levy talking to his son about sex.
Funny and a very lovable comedy where four guys: Jim (Jason Biggs), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), Oz (Chris Klein), and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nichols) strike a deal that they'll try to let go of their virginities before the end of the school year.
"American Pie" set the standard for teen gross-out/sex comedies of contemporary society.
I have a cousin who thinks of "American Pie" as the dirtiest film ever made.
I saw it at a friend's house when everyone else decided to watch this movie, and it was like being trapped in a frat house for 2 hours (not a good thing.)  And did anyone in this film actually do any homework (besides the "tutoring episode)?
The plot: American Pie is about four high school boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
There is some truly funny material in the film, I laughed at several scenes in the movie.
I really like American Pie because not only is it funny but it's also good hearted and filled with good characters.
Having seen classmates like loud mouth Stifler (Seann William Scott) have success on this front and after one party believing that even the dorkiest guy in the class Chuck 'Shermanator' Sherman (Chris Owen) has lost his virginity, the four friends make a pact that they will help each other to get laid by Prom Night.When I first watched this in 1999 the idea of hearing teenagers talk about and engage in sex during a movie was still novel and outrageous to me.
Hmmm Got Get Me Some Pie. American Pie is a funny film, the fact is that most people that see it some how try associate themselves to the character with cries of..."That is so me!"Half the time its not, but that doesnt matter!Jason Biggs is good as Jim, the shy kid on his mission to "do" Nadia (Molly Shannon).
So a few short years later, came the so-so 'Porky's (followed by terrible sequels) and now American Pie. When the opening scene had a kid orgasm into a beer-only to have his friend drink it I knew this movie was going no where fast.
American Pie is an hilariously original fun comedy about sex-craze teens.
I'm really glad that they are all coming for the sequel which I can't wait to see and who knows their may even be a third installment of American Pie. I give the film a 10/10.
The Breakfast Club is STILL the best in the teen/brat pack genre, American Pie isn't special, it isn't unique at all.The problem with the film is that it centres on the sex too much, yet never goes in any depth with characters.
If you want to see a genuinely funny comedy then see "There's Something About Mary" which is twice the movie this is.5/10..
But if you can't get enough movies about hetero teenage kids agonizing over having sex for the first time, you may just love it through and through.