Band Camp

Plot synopsis:
The spin-off movie focuses on Matt Stifler (Tad Hilgenbrinck), the younger brother of Steve Stifler from the previous American Pie films. Matt is eager to enter the family business of making porno films, so he can prove to his older brother that he is "up to the standards of the Stifmeister." Stifler and his friends play a prank on the band students during the seniors' graduation ceremony by spraying pepper spray on the mouthpieces of the band's instruments. Matt narrowly escapes getting caught and stows the can of pepper spray in his front pocket, which subsequently leaks onto his genitals. The band members begin to play "Pomp and Circumstance", only to become too irritated by the pepper spray to continue. During the commotion, one of the students trips and pulls down the back curtain, which reveals Matt, who is washing his pepper-spray-soaked genitals in a drinking fountain, in front of the whole school.The band leader Elyse Houston (Arielle Kebbel) demands that Stifler be punished for ruining their performance, stating that he always gets away with his pranks because he is the school's star football player. The school's guidance counselor Chuck Sherman ("The Sherminator") (played by Chris Owen from the original American Pie films) decides that a worthwhile punishment would be for Stifler to attend band camp, in the hopes that he would make friends with the "bandies" and not follow in the footsteps of his much-hated brother.When first arriving, Matt is very disrespectful to the rules and also everyone at Tall Oaks and gets his band group in trouble. He is sent to the office of Noah Levenstein (Jim's father) (Eugene Levy), who works as the camp MACRO (Morale and Conflict Resolution Officer; he's filling in for Michelle as she is now pregnant), recommends that he try to fit in and earn the band's trust, which is the last thing that Matt wants to do. However, a phone call from a friend, who says that earning their trust will get him better footage for his video, inspires Matt to be much more respectful and humble towards the band.Matt finds out that his dorky roommate Ernie Kapolwitz (Jason Earles) has an extensive knowledge of spy cameras and technology, so Matt agrees to let him help with the filming, making his first friend at Tall Oaks. As Matt "is earning the band's trust" he gets into a big confrontation with their rival band leader, Brandon Van der Camp (Matt Barr), and even goes as far as to accept a duel challenge made by him, having no idea what a "duel" is.It turns out that a duel is the two performers showing off their music skills, with Brandon playing the snare drum, and Matt playing the triangle. Throughout the majority of the competition it seems that Brandon is the heavy favourite; during Brandon's second round of performing, Matt walks away humiliated. As Brandon is about to be declared the official winner, Matt comes back playing the bagpipes to the tune of 'Play That Funky Music' showing that he is actually a decent player, surprising everyone, including Elyse, who is pleasantly surprised by Matt's performance.As Matt is still recording the various happenings at the camp, he gradually becomes friends with some of the band members from his school. He gains some respect from Ernie after Matt sets him up on a date with tattooed bandmate Chloe (Crystle Lightning). Matt starts falling for Elyse, who is revealed to have been a friend of Matt's in 8th grade but had a falling out after Matt started hanging around with Steve and his friends and acting like The Stifmeister. Matt is eventually caught with his movies, and his once-friends want nothing more to do with him.After another talk with Jim's Dad, Matt comes to realize that his brother is not as great or cool as he once thought and that following in his footsteps is not a good idea, so he deletes all the videos he recorded at band camp. He even enlists the help of the band to help Elyse get the band scholarship that Stifler accidentally made her lose in the final days of band camp.To make it up to Elyse, Matt decides to pull the whole band together to get Elyse the scholarship to the Robards Conservatory. Matt writes up a forged letter on his computer and sends it to Elyse's house. Elyse gets the letter when she is with her friend Chloe. Elyse then gets dropped off at Robards by fellow band member Oscar. When Elyse gets to the front desk she is told by the lady at the desk that the letter she has is a fake.When Elyse turns around and hears bagpipes, she says to herself "Stifler!" in an exasperated voice. The camera then moves in to Matt who is playing the bagpipes, and after Elyse expresses her anger with him, the rest of the band is revealed and start playing the song that Elyse wrote. When Dr. Choi and her assistant come out to see what the noise is about she mistakenly believes that the entire event has been orchestrated by Elyse and is sufficiently impressed to give her the scholarship.Elyse then thanks Matt and hugs him, who in turn gives back Elyse her piccolo which he'd thought was a dildo. They then kiss.Various deleted scenes are shown during the closing credits that did not make the cut.

Tags: prank

Review:
I have to admit, that i was expecting the forth edition to the American Pie series, with its almost complete absence of original characters (Except for Jim's Dad and the Sherminator) to be dreadful.
Thankfully its actually pretty good, Tad Hilgenbrinck (Matt Stifler) pulls off an incredible performance as the Stifmeister's younger brother; its like Steve Stiflers back (really he's that good) Matt Stifler is assigned to band camp, as punishment (revenge) by the Sherminator and that's where the trouble starts, more antic's involving instruments, cameras and Jim's dad follow and with plenty of laughs 'American Pie presents Band Camp' comes out with at least some credibility as a part of the American Pie Series.Missable, but worth a look 6/10.
I was impressed at the acting of the guy who played Stiffler's younger brother.As someone who basically grew up with the American Pie movie series, I'll always enjoy those movies, and watch them with a sense of nostalgia, for I was in similar points in my life to all the characters at the times the moview were originally released.
"American Pie: Band Camp" focuses mainly on just one character, Matt Stiffler, the younger brother of Steve Stifler who we all know from the previous 3 American Pie movies.
Tad Hilgenbrink really isn't bad as the new Stifmeister and he impersonates his older 'movie brother' pretty well and convincing but he however isn't given exactly wonderful material to work with.
The movie could had surely used some better sidekicks and other characters to help and make this movie a better one."American Pie: Band Camp" lacks some real good memorable moments and well executed jokes.
It's a very flat movie with some simple and not always funny jokes and moments in it.It's fairly good entertainment to watch but it lacks the characters and memorable jokes and moments from the previous 3 American Pie movies.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
I must say I like all the American Pie movies, but without the original cast I was a bit skeptical.
I mean, I even wondered if the actor playing the original Stifler's brother is his actual brother!Short story shorter: phony bad guy finds love and decides to come out of the closet and show the world his inner beauty.
After watching the previous 3 American Pie movies, i was eagerly awaiting the next installment...and as usual i was expecting the pointless storyline, heaps of laughs and a reasonable detachment from the characters.To my surprise, this movie is nothing like its forefathers, but to my delight it gave a new chapter to the American Pie meaning.
Detached as it was, they still managed to round up a few of the old stars, even though they only had small roles.Personally i thought Arielle Kebbel was absolutely amazing, and quite strangely i found that this movie had (in my eyes) a much deeper storyline than the others, and in the end pushed out some meaningful stuff.So after watching it 8 times in a row, i decided that it indeed failed my expectations of an American Pie movie, but greatly exceeded my movie enjoyment expectations.All in all this is a great movie, where you become more attached to the characters and even in its differences they still manage to get a few laughs in, a as usual a few nude scenes.ENJOY!.
So here Stifler's brother Matt (who's not even the same guy from "American Pie 2") is punished for pulling an on all levels pretty lame prank.
The Sherminator meanwhile has become a school counselor and sends him to band camp, which as it turns out, currently employs Jim's Dad. It's like bad fan fiction came to life.
The rest is filled up with very bothersome references to the actual "American Pie"-movies, semi-naked chicks and extremely irritating love subplots including a horrendously clichéd nerd you just can't possibly side with.
The entire cast has been recycled with the exception of Jim's Dad and the Shermanator.The movie has Stifflers brother going to band camp.
The aforementioned "nude scenes", by the way, are actually more or less left to the imagination, as each one cuts away before any real nudity happens (with the exception of Matt Stifler's corny bedroom game scene where you get to see 17 year old boy ass - who isn't looking forward to that!).
The hidden camera stunts are old and uninteresting.And I can understand Chris Owen may be short of work, but how did they manage to cast Eugene Levy in such a despicable role yet fail to cast the kid that played Matt Stifler from the first two movies, who was actually entertaining?
I saw that it was never released at the movies and that it was a lower budget film with rookie actors as opposed to it's older brothers (AP 1, 2 and the Wedding).So I started watching and from the start Tad Hildenrbink (who plays Matt Stifler) blew me away with his likeness to Steve Stifler and his charm and charisma.
Very good storyline and this installment flows in neatly with the other installments of American Pie. The new debutant who acts as Matt Stifler, is such a great actor and has shown evidence that he has influenced and used Steve Stifler's personality.
And believe me, there is so much to mock here...Where the original 'American Pie' was a surprise hit that showcased talented young stars and had a funny and even occasionally touching script, 'Band Camp' is filled with talent that could only have been culled from local high school drama clubs.
This is possibly the worst movie i have ever seen, as soon as i saw this in the video store, I thought "hmm, this movie doesn't look very good since only 2 of the characters from the first three were there (The Sherminator and Jims dad).
I'm hoping that if there is an American Pie 4 they will brush over the tragedy that is "Band Camp", perhaps even Stiffler could wake up (like in Dallas) thus making "Band Camp" a dream or rather nightmare, a nightmare that lasted way too long...by about 8o minutes i think..
I can still watch all the other American pies and laugh my ass off......this one..not so much.Also i just want to put this in here i saw some 9th grader asking for a copy of this movie then mimicking the wannabe stiffler they put in here.......wtf kids wtf this movie is NOT cool if u think it is you will never amount to anything...seriously wtf.
I had enjoyed fully all three previous American pie movies and could not wait to watch the fourth one-band camp.
The acting of all of them is very very wooden and unnatural (not like those in the original American pie films).Then there's stiffler's brother himself.
It's obvious that the actor is overplaying the stiffler character and doing it incorrectly (as you can tell by his unnatural facial expressions and his forced "f***ers!") Not a good movie at all, avoid like the plague if you don't want the originals ruined for you..
It doesn't really match up with his character.Although I have to say the 2 parts in the movie that were good, were definitely American Pie, but I still don't think it's worth any amount of money to watch this.
One thing I will complement this film on is that the girls they picked out for this film are pretty fine looking which is something I compliment the American Pie movies for in the past.This film if it had to be described in two words it is generally bad.
(BOMB)This one was simply dreadful and I think everyone knew it.It was totally inconsistent with the American Pie Series We all remember Stifler's brother's character in the earlier movies(F#$kers F*&kers F#$kers) This character was the absolute worst.No wonder only 2 of the original cast members were in it.I guess being a marching band camp alumnus I was drawn to this movie,however I wasn't expecting much and it was much worse than I had anticipated.I can't believe I actually sat through the whole thing.I'm not gonna say that this is the worst movie I saw,but I were to compile a list of "THE TOP 40 WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME"I think this turkey will make the list..
That or let the series die.While most of the cast of the original two refused to do the third, a wise move, only one is actually still making major releases still (if you count Dukes of Hazzard), so I'm guessing those prematurely-swelled heads have been deflated enough to mean they could appreciate the work.In fact, come to think of it, this movie is so bad, I'm surprised it isn't "National Lampoon's Band Camp".
its so funny and very very good and is good if you are up for a laugh it is good for ages 15 up words and is really entertaining may make you laugh to much and the start is to funny were he is really popular and he goes and puts pepper mint spray on the bands instruments it looks like they are crying but they are not and then he gets it down his pants so he puts it in water and the curtains come down and he is naked and then he is sent to band camp were he starts to change.he meets loads of people who he makes friends with them and then he secretly films them on camera doing crazy stunts he calls it bandies gone wild he falls in love with a girl he made fun of in 8th grade..
I guess it's easier to find an actor to look like older stifler who can react the same way instead of taking the time to indulge on the new character's personality.The acting was terrible.
It was not a funny way to spend a Friday night.For those of you who haven't seen the three American Pie films, do yourself a favor and watch them.
A spin-off from the successful American Pie films, Band Camp features none of the series' central cast members, and only a couple of its peripheral ones, the action focusing on the antics of 'douche majeure' Matt, younger brother of the legendary Steve 'Stiffmeister' Stifler.
After Matt (played by Tad Hilgenbrink, who does a pretty good Seann William Scott impersonation) goes too far with one of his practical jokes, he is sent to band camp for punishment, where he continues to cause all manner of trouble, at least until the predictably cheesy finale when he has an epiphany and changes his ways.American Pie and its sequels are renowned for for their gross out humour, so Band Camp naturally does its best to emulate this style, being as outrageous as possible, with gags involving a variety of bodily fluids and bizarre sexual situations—some of which are reasonably amusing, most of which aren't.
This one is definitely the best of the American pie spinoffs but that really is not saying much.This movie follows Stiflers brother, Matt stifler as he pulls a prank on the graduating class.
So he decides to follow in his brothers foot steps and make a girls gone wild spin off video called band geeks gone wild.This movie is not terrible by any means there is some pretty funny jokes.
But overall If you like American pie movies i say its worth a watch..
There is a reason this went straight to DVD and not though theatres, its not a 4th in the series its simply crap that tries to play on the "band camp" idea mentioned in the other movies and it does a really, really, poor job.It doesn't have any of the stars from the first 3 movies, how it managed to get the name it beyond my understanding; if its actually made by the same director I must say I am very disappointed and quite surprised.
As in the great American Pie tradition this movie to me was so funny I had to watch it again right afterwords.
You could hate band camp from previous parts, but after watching this movie, you will love it!
Scott was funny in the first Pie movies because he wasn't the main focus, here we get Tad Hilgenbrink trying his best to due a Stifler impersonation, and failing completely.The crude teen comedy that made American Pie such a hit for the first movies, seems to try to hard in this installment.
This movie was great like all other in the American Pie series but I think it could have been so much better with Steve Stifler and all the original characters.
No one plays stifler role as good, going to have to face it, he is just hilarious, but this movie was still great, he did a great job as Steve's brother and his role.
Okay, bad pun, but you get the point.Unlike many other films that have cost a countries economic burden to make and produce and also cost me a fair amount of time and money to watch and then disappoint(like, "War of the Worlds" or "King Kong"), this little rental "flick" is entertaining and enjoyable in that irreverent, juvenile manner that typifies the "Howard Stern" generation.I have to give credit to the casting of the film-- I would be willing to bet that a few of the female actresses in this film go on to have lucrative careers as they are not only beautiful but do demonstrate a good deal of talent.Yep-- I expected light-hearted, minimally offense, gently sexy and silly sophistry and "American Pie: Band Camp" delivered.
I haven't actually seen all the other American Pie films but after I watched this one I thought it was pretty good.
So if you haven't watched the first American Pie films, watch Band Camp because it is very cool..
loved it laughs from start to finish and loads of new catchphrases :D glad the sherminator was in it and Jim's dad one word for him...hero!if your thinking "ahh nar its not got the originals in, it cant be as good" well you'd be very wrong its just as good, Matt is just like Steve which is the important part bit corny at the end when he realises the error of his ways...I've never met anyone who's done that but there's plenty of women, practical jokes and erm....women :D one thing it did lose out on...it wasn't in the cinema!!!
Bye, Bye American Pie. Tenacious young Tad Hilgenbrink (as Matt Stifler, brother of Steve) is sent to "Band Camp" for monkeying around with his school's instruments.
Beats unemployment.** American Pie presents Band Camp (2005) Steve Rash ~ Tad Hilgenbrink, Arielle Kebbel, Eugene Levy.
I watched the first 45 minutes of it, than wrote down what I thought was going to happen, then looked up spoilers, and I found out that what I wrote down, actually happened.In conclusion, the character of Stifler (Even Sean Willam Scott couldn't have made this story work) can't survive on his own, Stifler needs to be a supporting character, not main.So don't see this movie, I would advise to see any more American Pie movies.
For A Straight To DVD Movie, It's Not That Bad. American Pie: Band Camp is not great, but it's not terrible either.
Compared to the atrocity The Naked Mile, Band Camp is Oscar Worthy.It sticks to the humor of the original American Pie movies and does have some funny moments.
I've have just finished watching this movie and as an American Pie fan, this is a fair addition to the series.
The film is based around Matt Stifler (Steve Stifler's younger brother) so if you liked the Stifler character from the other films then this is definitely worth a watch.Jim's dad is in this film quite often and Sherman makes a cameo appearance too.
American pie bandcamp is such a funny and awesome movie because this movie isn't only about stiffler making a porn video, its about stiffler changing from being stifflers brother into a good hearted guy who doesn't want to be like his brother.
whatever happened to the original character who played stifler's little brother in the original American pie movies?
I can: Goddess That is why I give this movie a rating of 10, Excellent.I can summarize that 10 rating with two words: Arielle Kebbel.For her presence, the movie is well worth the watch.Oh, by the way American Pie Writers: We do not want our Stiffler Characters to have a Conscience.Nuff Said.Luke.
Never mind the fact that the only original characters are Jim's dad and "the Shermenator." Also never mind the fact that the only way to get people to watch this straight to video movie was to base the whole thing on one joke from the previous trilogy because people felt the need to go around wearing said joke out by saying "one time at band camp" every time you try and tell a story.
A friend of mine actually likes this movie (she had "One Time At Band Camp" printed on her section's shirts, which was pretty cool), but I just don't understand why.
He subsequently gets sent to a Band Camp to befriend the school band members as a way to make up.Many of the original American pie jokes are still here, and they are funny.
The movie is pretty funny, just in line with the other 3 Amrican Pie movies, but you have to make sure you like the jokes from Stiffler in the other 3 to enjoy this one!
it was good over all but didn't seem like an American pie movie at all.
This movie went along the same lines as the American Pie films, had some of the same characters, and on top of all that had awesome looking women!
Complaining that Matt in the movie acted too much like Steve Stiffler from the American Pie movies?
I hope this is the last American pie movie they do, because there just gonna ruin it pretty much don't you's think?