American Wedding

PREMIERE.COM REVIEW (posted 8/1/03)
This one time, at the movie theater, there was this teen sex romp where four pals conspired to lose their virginity, and it was really funny. This other time, at the movie theater, there was this lame sequel where all of the newly deflowered characters came back but nothing really interesting happened, except this guy glued his hand to his penis and then fell in love with a band geek.

It’s American Pie time again, and luckily, this third serving shares the raunchy good spirit of the first. In the opening scene, a fresh-out-of-college Jim (Jason Biggs) proposes to his horny flutist love Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) . . . with no pants on . . . at a crowded restaurant . . . while his father watches. Thus the tone is established for American Wedding, in which Jim’s pals (Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Thomas Ian Nicholas), parents (Eugene Levy and Molly Cheek), and future relatives (Pie newcomers Fred Willard, Deborah Rush, and January Jones) gather to plan and celebrate the couple's nuptials. Expect strippers; chocolate sauce and mild bondage; a pubic-hair blizzard; dog-on-man action; and plenty of other gags that go beyond good taste (one scene in particular comes to mind). American Wedding, in fact, is so tasteless, so fiendishly puerile that it's hilarious.

Biggs and Hannigan continue to make a sweet, goofy couple, and Levy, as in the previous films, steals every scene he’s in. But most of the laughs revolve around the antics of the boorish, fratty Stifler, who impersonates a nice guy to get with the maid of honor (Jones); loses the wedding ring; one-ups Finch (Thomas) in the older woman department; and . . . grows a heart? Stifler's clenched-jaw mania becomes a little exhausting, but actor Seann William Scott shows he can and will do anything for a laugh.

— Kelly Borgeson