It's painful, it's real, and it's probably the funniest thing you'll see this year...a teen sexploitation classic.
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The successful bits, along with an amiable cast of losers and their prom-night prey, make American Pie a winner.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It is not inspired, but it's cheerful and hard-working and sometimes funny, and--here's the important thing--it's not mean.
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Exceptionally funny, unexpectedly tender, and lewder than a teenage boy's dreams.
75
USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
The presence of "Election's" Chris Klein as the male contingent's most sensitive member only emphasizes how much smarter that high school comedy was.
63
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Both funny and foul, alternately frank and full of it.
60
TNT RoughCut
TNT RoughCut
What is refreshing about this film is that most of the characters seem like real people.
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers.
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated.
30
Film.comErnest Hardy
Film.comErnest Hardy
What really makes the film fall dead (although the preview audience I saw it with howled from beginning to end) are the actors and the way the characters have been scripted.