Looking Back On The Cultural Milestone That Was American Pie

I happened to catch good ol' American Pie on Starz! this weekend (Working Title: American Pie 1: American Not-Total-Garbage), and while I still know the movie inside and out from my youthful and more vibrant years, this was the first time I was really able to watch the film with a truer sense of 90s historical context, much like the first time someone watched Better Off Dead in 1994 and thought "what the hell was going on in that decade?" My reactions to the 2008 American Pie viewing: -- Why does Jason Biggs f*ck the pie in the middle of the kitchen? We all had our masturbation hangups in high school (I was more of a Cake man myself... the band Cake, I mean... I mean, I masturbated with Cake CDs... I'm still talking?) but even the horniest braindead teen knows not to do it in the damn kitchen. Eugene Levy's character was probably more shocked by his son's lack of basic masturbatory etiquette than his decision to use baked goods. -- The school choir is f*cking TERRRRRRRRIBLE!!! The film still dubs over their voices with recorded singing in the unconvincing but somehow-acceptable way that all movie musicals do, but they're dubbed with their own really sh*tty voices. I was watching with a choir vet and every second they were on screen was causing her severe pain (Dramatization). -- Not that I'm disputing the film's necessary inclusion of the Nadia nude scene, but why does Nadia have to change her underwear when she gets out of her ballet clothes? And does she not expect anyone to be the slightest bit suspicious / concerned when she spends twenty minutes locked in the room, changing her clothes and making aroused noises? -- Between the Stifler "jizz in the beer cup" scene and the Fat Bastard stool sample from Austin Powers 2, 1999 was a great year for long, drawn out scenes where you keep expecting someone to drink a bodily discharge but they keep not doing it then they eventually do and everyone goes "oooohhhhhHHH!!!!!" -- Chris Klein's decision to leave the lacrosse g
	Published: 2008-07-23 Provider: Best Week Ever
Keywords: Entertainment