It's time to say "bye bye (we'll miss) American Pie!" as the latest and purported final entry in the American Pie trilogy finds pastry poking Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs) and flutist extraordinaire Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) heading for the altar.
Scenes from American Pie: The Wedding starring Nikki Schieler Ziering, Seann William Scott and Thomas Ian Nicholas (top pic), and Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs (middle pic).
Regarded by fans (and foes) as epitomising the best of gross-out comedy, American Pie: The Wedding continues the tradition of its predecessors by subjecting its hapless male lead Jim and his former partner-in-crime, the depraved Stifler, to an endless parade of humiliations that are simultaneously tasteless and hilarious.
(Spoiler Alert: The next few paragraphs contain explicit descriptions of the movie's raunchiest scenes.)
As the quintessential hapless protagonist, Jim opens the movie by proposing to nympho Michelle in a swank restaurant (big mistake!) only to have the latter go all Divine Brown on him underneath the table. To make matters worse, Jim's father (the excellent Eugene Levy) shows up with the forgotten engagement ring just in time to witness his son "rising" to the occasion (pardon the pun).
Another classic scene involves Jim applying a complimentary shaver to his pubic hedges and discarding the trimmings out of the window - only to have them sucked up by the hotel's kitchen ventilation system and deposited on the wedding cake. The following scene featuring a now ruined wedding cake "decorated" with clumps of pubic hair and a chastised Jim standing amidst irate wedding planners and his parents is a laugh riot.
However, the undoubted star of American Pie: The Wedding has to be the hyper-horny and developmentally arrested Stifler who is ever-so-generous with his "fucks," "shits" and "blow-mes." Whether it involves a dog licking cake off his crotch or a mistaken copulation with Jim's geriatric grandmother (Angela Paton) in a darkened closet, the Stifmeister and his retarded atrocities provide some of the movie's best moments.
In a scene voted "Most Likely To 'Stick' To The Audience's Minds," Stifler accidentally loses the wedding ring entrusted to his care when it is ingested by the Flathery family pooch. While Stifler manages to finally retrieve the turd-encrusted ring, what follows is the most vomit-inducing doggie doodie consumption scene in cinematic history - one that even surpasses his previous act of drinking semen with beer in American Pie 2 on the cringe-o-meter.
Scenes from American Pie: The Wedding starring Nikki Schieler Ziering, Seann William Scott and Thomas Ian Nicholas (top pic), and Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs (middle pic).
When trash-talking Stifler starts "dissing" homosexuality and defending his heterosexuality, he is soon put in his place by an articulate gay leather patron aptly named Bear (Eric Allen Kramer). The gay-versus-straight face-off then culminates in a Saturday Night Fever-like showdown on the dancefloor set to a tacky medley of old 80s hits featuring the likes of Belinda Carlisle, Bananarama, Eurythmics and Duran Duran.
After striking up an unlikely friendship with the homophobic Stifler, the aforementioned Bear with his penchant for butt-cut-out leather pants then pitches in to organise a surprise bachelor party for Jim. The raunchy party involving the surgically enhanced tag team of Officer Krystal (Nikki Schieler Ziering) and Fraulein Brandi (Amanda Swisten), and the subsequent unplanned intrusion of the bride's parents just while things are getting frisky is pure comedic genius.
In the final analysis, while American Pie: The Wedding is undeniably profane and gut-churningly gross, it is also unashamedly fun and convulsively funny. So if the prospect of laughing and groaning through a movie filled with outrageous antics is your slice of pie, RSVP quickly and go catch American Pie: The Wedding.
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