I remember going with my friend to see South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and him saying let's see American Pie. American who, I ask. "You mean that film with those kids (by kids I mean adults playing kids, a break we all deserve from being kids playing adults) doing nothing?" I thought it would be another 'She's All That' or '10 things I hate to admit to myself when I see you walking by...' you get my drift. Then 2 weeks later I was tricked into seeing this movie. By tricked I mean the movie I wanted to see was sold out so I saw American Pie because it was the movie I figured would suck the least.
I know it is a smack to our culture to say that American Pie is a true account of the High School experience not for everybody, of course, only 99.9% (<---sarcasm). Not like the She's All That's of the world that sugarcoat prom and choreograph dance moves.
I remember the Blood Drive of 96' at my HS when the guys sat around a table waiting to give blood talking about their first oral sex experiences. Or walking the halls during prom season and people planning their post prom orgasm feasts. American Pie only put on screen what parents cringe to even think about. Kids having sex.
American Pie 2 was no different. Once you enter college the flood gates are opened and the sexual experimentations are legend. Freak lists (yes a list of promiscuous college students, of course these lists only have females names on them, isn't that fair?) go up and young girls with hopes of popularity and unrequited love glow with the naivete that they'll one day be somebody special...Just makes you all warm and fuzzy inside don't it? Aaaawwwww
American pie 2 summarized in 2 hours what goes on for four years. The hunt for the unattainable. Whether it be sex, love or the B from Professor Pan (the Japanese English teacher) that you know isn't going to happen it's all about the realization. I think the best part of American Pie 2 was the end when he realized there was something more than just Nadia. I know most of my friends and I all had that experience, when what we had been going after the entire time ended up becoming unimportant the closer we got to the goal.
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