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American Pie

1999

Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz

Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alyson Hannigan ...

5.9

112,511

Comedy In this coming-of-age comedy, a group of friends at the end of their senior year make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. In their outrageous attempts to fulfill this mission, they come to some surprising, hilarious and often touching realizations about themselves, their friendships, their notions of love, romance and their relations with the opposite sex.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It observes the rules of comedy (...) Its characters are sort of sweet and lovable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Sadly, it is terrible: plodding, with no funny lines and nothing unpredictable in the way of plot."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"All the performances are on the money (...) It’s having the nerve to dare and the style to land the jokes that counts."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'American Pie' is unable to transcend its own dirty mind (...) [It] portrays a teen-age culture that harks weirdly back to the 1950's"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"'American Pie' showed em how it was done. How you could make a teenage, gross-out comedy with a heart (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"'American Pie' is refreshingly different (...) The casting is spot on (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"A crude piece of work, spottily acted and directed, albeit lifted by two or three outrageous set-pieces."	NEU
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"There's nothing the least bit surprising or original"	NEG
United States	Andre Dellamorte Collider	"Early sequences have a crudeness of direction (...) The film works, and works partly because of Eugene Levy’s performance"	NEU
United Kingdom	Joanna Berry Radio Times	"[It] has enough crass gags to satisfy the most demanding fans of 'Porky's-style farces (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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