American High School (2009 Video)
1/10
What happens when satire meets stupidity
2 June 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is supposed to be a satire/spoof of teen high school sex movies. In fact, the high school is even called "American High School." It's supposed to lampoon the other movies by going completely over the top, with every student being super-sexed, super-drama magnets. However, the movie lacks two key ingredients for a good spoof movie: wit and charm.

American Pie had both (which was why it was successful). The main characters were understandable enough that you actually wanted them to succeed. In this movie, all the main characters seem to suffer from multiple personality/bipolar/other mental illnesses as they will completely flip 180 digress from scene to scene. The best example of this is the "most popular guy in school/main character's husband"

Right in a row he: First rejects the main antagonists' "subtle: advances (and my subtle I mean she shoves him against a tree, tears off his shirt and offers him a bj). He calls her a dumb whore and ditches her. Then in the very next scene she offers him a ride and asks to go out to lunch with him and he accepts. Then in the next scene he's talking to his wife about how he asked the "dumb whore" out to prom and that he didn't think she (wife) would be upset.

Seriously...WTF?

And this isn't an isolated incident. At prom the husband is seen dancing and grinding against the "dumb whore", grabbing her ass and then in the very next scene is trying to apologize to the wife saying he misses her.

If they portrayed him as a chauvinistic pig like many of the other male characters, that would have been fine, but they tried very hard to portray him as a "sensitive, confused boy who just got married too young."

Anyway, the ONLY reason I can think someone should want to watch this is to see tits, and again you'll be disappointed. There is one scene where Nikki Ziering (age: 38) partially exposes her breasts so her art class can get "inspiration."

Here's a hint for all you adolescent boys, she gets more naked in American Wedding (she's Officer Krystal) and that's actually a decent movie.
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