Rating of
2/4
Shouldn't have been American Pie
TheWolf - wrote on 07/30/07
Well since I collect movies I have to say that yes I have this movie, and its only because I want to complete my collection... (for the same reason people have GodFather III). My honest reaction to this movie was that it was going to be just pure trash. And for many reasons it was. On the other hand it did have a few moments that were relatively funny.
I think the biggest mistake made with this movie is that they attached the "American Pie" name to it. That is where they went wrong. Had the producers demanded that the name of the movie be changed to anything else that has no American Pie references, this movie may have actually done a little better. A lot of people avoided it simply because the only person from the original cast that they could get was Eugene Levy. And while Levy is very talented and quite funny, he can't carry the show, nor should he have to carry the AP title.
I would have said that this movie could have done a lot better were it called "Meatballs Revisited"... it would have given people a chance to want to see something like that again. Camp movies pretty much died in the 80's but then again if they are made properly they could have a comeback.
