Sunday, September 12, 2010

American Pie - One Slice

This is a good movie, hands down.  I mean, who doesn't find this movie funny, besides the prissy & stuck-up girls?  As being part of that whole string of high school teen comedies that was so popular during the late-90's (i.e. Can't Hardly Wait and She's All That), this is by far one of the best.  I contribute it to the fact that instead of focusing on the hooky romance, it focused on... well the sex, specifically of adolescent males.  I would say it was an updated version of Porky's, but funnier.  Over the top in every way, it took a topic that usually is spoken in secrecy and all seriousness and made it something that everybody could relate to (yes I am also including the female species).  True, most people don't end up drinking cum-mixed beer or fucking an apple pie along the road of getting some sex, but it did point out issues like the difficulty of approaching and preparing for sex, it being spontaneous or planned, how it relates to your partner, what to do with feelings involved, etc. 
My problem is that, in reality, I would find hard to believe that either of the four boys would have had trouble getting laid, especially Oz (played by Chris Klein).  He's a beefy stud (thanks God for locker room scenes!)  Even if he would come off insencere and say corny lines, girls would've slept with him anyway.  Finch may have been the least likely to appeal to women, he's certainly not homely, but he was weird.  Even Jim (Jason Biggs) is adorable.  He is a geek, but some people like that.  I mean, I do.  Nadia certainly did to!  He isn't a deuschbag and he isn't bad-looking.  But my definite preference goes to Thomas Ian Nicholas' character, Kevin Myers.  Not a hunk, but he has all of the "nice guy" qualities, with his honest sincerity and supportiveness.  And he's just so damn cute!  Definitely more of the ideal boyfriend.  And once again, wouldn't have had trouble getting some.  Vicky just took forever to pull the stick out of her ass.  It's also a little shocking to see Nicholas in this kind of movie.  He had definitely come far since A Kid in King Arthur's Court, though he had just shot A Kid in Aladdin's Palace just a year before American Pie.  Just when you thought you knew an actor.  And a shout-out to Alyson Hannigan for bringing the best out of a band geek and to Eugene Levy for just being himself.
Yes, I definitely feel we could give thanks to American Pie for bringing such hijinks and laughs, and especially for popularizing the term MILF and bringing the famous line "One time at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy". 

For more info on this movie, click on the link below:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163651/

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