American Wedding
It’s a timeless tale, about a boy and his pie. No wait, I take it back. Its time has passed. American Wedding? Not so good.
I loved America Pie. I laughed at the immature toilet humor and related to each of the adolescents in one way or another. I know what it feels like to be the odd man out. The first movie ultimately showed that just because things don’t work out the way you plan, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing. So did the second movie. And in case you didn’t get it the first 2 times, they shove it in your face so hard that a blind man would get it from the third installment.
Insults aside, I have no complaints about the actors and I think the premise could have been a decent continuation of the Pie series, but instead we get to see an exhaustive display of profanity and sexual slurs, both audible and visbile for just shy of two hours.
It’s easy to split the movie up three ways. The first 15 minutes, albeit chock full of pants dropping and more of the “parent-walking-in-on-you” scenes, was amusing and made the rest look promising. At the far end we have the wedding itself and all the uncomfortableness that goes along with families meeting for the first time and the mishaps that tend to happen in a movie like this.
In between all that is an hour of watching Sean Williams Scott play the same tired character he plays in every movie I’ve seen with him. Filmmakers ascended his ‘hijinks’ to heights never before seen. One particular gem involves Stifler (Scott) trying to convince wedding guests that he is consuming a chocolate truffle, when in fact, it is dog crap. Not only is subtlety non-existant, but it is so convincing (NOT an acting compliment) that more than a few of us who screened the movie gagged at the thought and full-frontal sight of the act.
Ultimately the movie became about Stifler learning the err of his ways with only slight remorse. Somewhere in there a wedding took place, but I think I missed it.
Bottom line? Old jokes, missing cast members (several refused to return) and a total disregard for taste in humor killed this flic before it barely got started. Speaking from an adolescent point of view, I am not recommending American Wedding. It went over the top and only managed to disrespect it’s audience instead of entertain.
