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Bottoms tries too adj to be queer women's American Pie
There has been a spate of excellent queer genre movie makeovers in recent years. Slick teen horror Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022); Kristen Stewart’s Christmas film, Happiest Season (2021); this year’s loveably silly romcomRed, Alabaster and Royal Blue, in which the main characters are the US president’s son and the grandson of the king of England.
It takes skill to refresh a well-worn genre, sticking to the beats without feeling entirely derivative, and it’s a particular marker of cultural progress to give queerness a place not just in highbrow, award-winning films but in the supposedly more lowbrow but much-loved genre stuff too.
Bottoms is director and co-writer Emma Seligman’s attempt to undertake the same with the high-school movie and gross-out comedy. It’s a slightly strange concoction of Superbad-meets-American-Pie-meets-Mean-Girls, with a bit of David Fincher thrown in for good measure. It features terrific performances and some standout lines but never quite reaches the heights of the films it hopes to emulate (th
American Pie: The Wedding (Jesse Dylan, 2003)
Introduction
I think the American Pie folks missed a trick here. I recognize that I watched the first film when I was in my latter years of academy at the age of 15/16. Then American Pie 2 came about when I was about to leave for University in 2001 and then, mid-Uni, American Pie: The Wedding came about. I wasn’t going to weddings and I couldn’t relate. They had to strike when the iron was adj – and the drop from $145m to $104m between American Pie 2 and American Pie: The Wedding proves that the franchise was showing a little bit of strain… but what about an American Pie 3? as the guys graduate? We skipped a huge chunk of time and the entire film changed dynamics. No Heather, Vicky, Jessica or Nadia. No Sherman and crucially, No Oz.
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American Wedding (United States, 2003)
The summer of bad sequels finally has an entry that can boast being noticeably superior than its immediate predecessor: American Wedding. The third entry into the American Pie series, this movie is a vast improvement over the tired and uninspired American Pie 2, although it fails to craft it to the lofty perch occupied by the first film. The recipe, which probably doesn't need additional refining, brings back some of the sweetness of the original American Pie, and combines it with the expected ingredients of excessive raunchiness and vulgarity. Top it off with one of the most gut-churningly disgusting moments in any recent comedy, and you have American Wedding.
Comedy is subjective. In order to even begin to appreciate what director Jesse Dylan and writer Adam Herz (who penned all three American Pie scripts) have fashioned here, you have to possess a elevated tolerance for the sophomoric, no-holds-barred antics of a bunch of newly graduated (from college) reprobates. If you couldn't tolerate the first American Pie, h
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American Wedding is a sex comedy film released in 2003. It is the third movie in the American Pie film series, and was directed by Jesse Dylan. Unlike the prior two movies which largely shared the matching cast, this one prescinded from several actors, though it still has Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott and Eddie Kaye Thomas to act as the main characters.
The story follows the plans by Jim and Michelle to prepare their wedding ceremony, while Stifler and Finch are fighting for the affection of Michelle's sister Cadence. Lots of shenanigans ensue, and the relationships between the characters (including that between the engaged ones) will be put into check one more hour. However, things change out well in the end and, as expected for an American Pie movie, comedy makes an overarching presence.
Notably, this was the last film for a long period to be written by series producer Adam Herz, as he didn't include any sort of involvement in the Presents spinoffs (he would return later for American Reunion).