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My, my, more American Pie...and an unrated and uncut sequel at that
I first checked out "American Pie 2" because I was using the original in my Popular Culture class so my students could tear out their hair trying to figure out if teenagers watching "American Pie" was a good thing or a bad thing. So I figured I should check out the sequel to see if it somehow contributed to our ongoing debate, or whether it was just a blatant attempt to make money. However, you have to admit that "American Pie 2" is not a sequel that tries to produce a carbon copy of the original. The first time around there was the "pact," and for round two there is just an attempt to have a good time during the summer. You know, just kids having fun, only these are the kids from "American Pie." <
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>The entire cast is back for "American Pie 2" but there are two major differences in terms of the character dynamics. First, this is really "American Pie 2B," with the emphasis on the boys rather than a balance between the sexes that we had in the original. Mena Suvari's Heather is almost down to a cameo and there is only one decent girl talk between Vicky (Tara Reid) and Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) this time around (on the "Rule of 3"). However, there is much more of Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) and everybody knows that there is no way in the post "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" world in which we now live that I am going to complain about that. Second, in "American Pie" the focus was clearly on the characters of Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein) and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas). But this time around the biggest plot threads have to deal with Jim, Stifler (Seann William Scott), and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas). That shift along is guaranteed to change the dynamic of the film, because you are never going to be able to take Stifler seriously, or Finch, for that matter. <
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>The reason I used "American Pie" in class was because I never could make up my mind about that film: it starts off proclaiming itself to be a standard film where a bunch of high school boys try to get laid. But then along the way it seems the boys learn about love, or at least there is more to sex than getting laid. But then again, they do get laid. The same principle is at work in this film at well as there are "serious issues." Can Kevin and Vicky just be friends in the aftermath of their breakup? Can Oz and Heather survive her being in Spain for most of the summer? Can Jason make Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) happy when she shows up to see him at the end of the summer? FOr that matter, can we make it through all the extras on this DVD? <
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>However, the big case study comes in what fans picked as the #1 "American Pie" scene ever, the "lesbian scene," where the boys want to see a couple of young women they think are lesbians. The girls are willing to perform, provided the boys do a little performing themselves. Again, we are back to the quandary: is this a critique of such adolescent libido or an exploitation of the same? Or is it just standard Hollywood marketing? After all there Stifler is still having problems with body liquids and whether he is with another or by himself sex is only one problem after another for Jim. So, you decide. Remember that papers are to be double-spaced and that I am willing to look over outlines before the paper's due date.