TheRetroCritic

Some jokes never get old. Then again some do. Sadly, the whole American Pie thing started getting old with American Pie: The Wedding , and that was before all those straight-to-DVD ones. So yeah, a reunion I guess could have been a good way to update the franchise a little bit and maybe do something epic with those characters for once... Unfortunately, studios went for the safer route: American Reunion is the typical comedy sequel with everyone having a bit of a mid-life crisis before all growing up and settling down like good little human puppets. YAWN. Now I suppose they can take comfort in the knowledge that American Reunion is the best American Pie film since the second one but it's a pretty big drop-off in between and with all the cast back for a full-on reunion, they could have put a tad bit more effort into telling some kind of memorable and different story. You know the drill: everyone shows up, Stifler screws up their lives after a (mildly) crazy week-end, ever