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Dom Robinson reviews

There's something about your first piece.

Distributed by

Columbia TriStar

American Pie is an American high-school sex comedy about four teenage nerds and their ultimate goal: to lose their cherry before school's out. However, it has to be via consensual sex and not with a hooker.

First up is Jim (Jason Biggs) who isn't quite up to it when he gets his calling and has unfortunate mishaps, first with an apple pie and then over the internet with a girl in his class, sex-pot Nadia Shannon Elizabeth, but he may just get to make it up with nerdy, flute-playing Michelle (Alyson Hannigan); Oz (Chris Klein) joins the choir class to chat up Heather (American Beauty's Mena Suvari); Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is dating the gorgeous Vicky (Tara Reid) and teaches her the secrets of the "tongue tornado" after reading the legendary "sex bible" that is passed on through the generations at his school; and finally there's Paul (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who seems to have a reputation with the ladies that none of his friends can understand because they only know him as the guy who refuses to take a dump in the school toilet and know when it's time as he disappears for another "16-minute round trip".

The film also takes in the concept of the "father-son chat", the legendary parties thrown by Steve Stifler (Seann W. Scott) and a term I've never heard before that some guys apply to the woman that gave birth to him: M.I.L.F. - "Mom, I'd love to fuck".

The picture is presented in an anamorphic 1.85:1 ratio with no obvious artifacts, but it does look a little dark overall which is odd. The average bitrate is an excellent 9.8Mb/s.

The sound is good too and presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, but is mostly used for the pop tunes that denote the teenage youth, such as Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" and The Barenaked Ladies' "One Week", but no version of Don McLean's titular offering.

Extras :

Chapters/Trailer :

Only 18 chapters but two more than the usual Universal-via-Columbia offering, so could use more. The theatrical trailer is also included.

Languages/Subtitles :

Dolby Digital 5.1 in English and subtitles for the same language.

And there's more... :

The Out-takes last two-and-a-half minutes and are just that, but also feature 'work in progress' shots and the other "sex with pie" version which, as far as I know, is the only change to the "American Pie: Unseen" video that was hyped when it was put out for sale.

Spotlight on Location is a ten-minute behind-the-scenes featurette, with a typical made-for-TV approach mixing clips with comments from the cast and crew, but should only be watched after you've seen the film as it gives away some of the key comedy moments. Music Highlights does exactly what it says on the tin allowing access to snippets of all 22 songs featured in the movie with its own menu. Want to hear that classic line of dialogue again? Check out the Classic Quotes section with 20 brief snippets such as

However, for some weird reason they tend to cut out right before the very end, often losing the last word or two. "Like warm...", anyone?

Cast and Filmmakers' Notes provides biogs and filmogs for the director and all the main cast members, thus is very comprehensive. The Production Notes also gives you more information about the film. The DVD-ROM content adds to this, repeating some of the above, plus more info on the crew and a listing of the soundtrack album.

A feature-length Audio Commentary track is included with not only chat from director Paul Weitz, but also his brother and co-producer Chris Weitz, writer Adam Herz and cast members Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jason Biggs and Seann W. Scott.

Worthy of note too is that most of the extras feature English subtitles too, although the audio commentary doesn't.

Menu :

An excellent main menu with animation mocking the internet section of the film (I'll say no more - you'll have to see it to believe it) and some incidental music from the film.

Overall, a great comedy that's well worth seeing - and the debut for the writer-producer Weitz brothers - with an almost-perfect picture and lots of extras, as many as the Region 1 DVD in fact.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

The following is a list of the American Pie DVDs reviewed online :

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