American Reunion
Tagline: Save the best piece for last
The American Pie franchise also began in the 1990s and similarly had plenty of “excursions below decks.” Now it’s back on a big screen near you, in case Kate and Leo’s romance isn’t crude enough for you. All your favorite characters (played by the likes of Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy and Tara Reid) have returned to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. And in the course of one wild weekend, they’ll discover who and what has or hasn’t changed (hey, no one said the plot needed to be deep).
And perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the early word is positive. “Taken altogether, the Pie movies offer a cohesive worldview, showing each of life’s stages as the setting for fresh-yet-familiar catastrophes, relieved by a belief in sex, however ridiculous it might look, as a restorative force,” notes the Village Voice (presumably without a hint of irony). Getting straight down to business (rather in keeping with the tone of the franchise), OK! magazine believes that “American Reunion is funnier than all other movies in the series combined.” And Time Out New York quite possibly hits the nail on the head for why this reunion should be welcomed: “Call it a strange and unintended benefit, then, that many of these generic characters work better as awkward adults than as teens.”