Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan

The third film in the American Pie series deals with the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little...( read more  read more... ) sister.

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Jesse Dylan

Release Date: August 1, 2003

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DVD Release Date: January 2, 2004

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  • September 29, 2008
    American Wedding is exactly the type of ending that suits the American Pie trilogy. It's not like the typical TV sitcom where it's feel good and lacking on humor. The traditional gross out honest humor is still present. Unfortunately not all the characters are due to scheduling c...( read more)onflicts.

    The directors do a good job of covering the absent characters by simply not mentioning them but there lack of presence is felt. Oz isn't present during Jim's speech with the best men. Michele is the only returning female lead. Even some of the returning characters play a smaller role. Kevin is almost not seen in most of the film. He serves very little important role and is more in the background. Finch and Stifler seem to be the lead story, at times more than the wedding itself. It does work to create a funny story.

    The story is well wrapped up and that hopefully means that no additional and poorly conceived sequels are made. There seems to be three rules that follow in all of these films.

    1) Jim does something bizarre sexual act that embarrasses him.

    2) Stifler ingest some bodily excretion

    3) Finch has sex with Stifler's Mom

    Obviously they've hit Stifler with about every funny excretion. The only options left are blood, pus, or earwax. Rule #2 is going to be hard to follow.
  • July 19, 2008
    "Love life, get paid, then get laid. That is the basic philosophy of... The Finch-meister!"


    American Pie: The Wedding (known in America as American Wedding) was an inevitable event considering the box office success of its predecessors. The original two

    ...( read more) American Pie films were blueprint instances of contemporary American sex comedies: copiousness of profanity, nudity, sex references and plain lewd language...while still possessing an underlying poignancy. They weren't masterpieces at all, but in any case people could relate to the characters while reflecting on the rampant hormones of their teenage years. The first film examined teens enthusiastic to lose their virginity, the second film focused on college days, and now the third film explores some of these characters tying the knot. There never seems to be much point, does there?

    The preceding American Pie films I didn't overly love despite a few laughs to be had. American Pie: The Wedding is the worst film in the series thus far. This third film is wholeheartedly superfluous. The studio got their box office profits, but this instalment makes the film as gross and vulgar as achievable...pushing things to maximum extremes in the faint hope of a laugh. However it fails quite unspeakably to the point that I was rarely laughing. In fact, the film is just plain sickening, repulsive and occasionally offensive! Half the original cast is missing for this film. At least some characters have finally grown up and moved on!

    Jim (Biggs) and his girlfriend Michelle (Hannigan) have now been dating for a number of years. After college graduation, Jim proposes to Michelle. As the title would suggest, Michelle accepts and the wedding preparations commence. This thin plot is an excuse for a long string of pointless jokes. These gags frequently fail. It seems that the screenwriters have a clear idea that the audience desires more Stifler (Scott). Now Stifler has been promoted to a protagonist (obviously replacing Chris Klein as 'Oz') as he endlessly swears and desperately searches for sex. Throw in Finch (Thomas) and Kevin (Nicholas) as those present to support Jim in the lead up to his wedding, as well as Jim's sex-crazed father (Levy) who's there to make things more interesting (it seems).

    Before the release of American Pie: The Wedding, the marketing tried to make us believe that this is the funniest "slice of pie" yet. Either they were amazing lyers, or the filmmakers are seriously self-deluded. What has become a supposed rites-of-passage trilogy initiated as a cunningly appealing amalgamation of gross-out comedy (sometimes amusing) and a credible set of characters. With disparaging predictability and mountains of clichés, the trilogy has devolved into this mess...effectively a remake of Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers and Father of the Bride. It's a clichéd wedding affair we've seen billions of times before! But this time, it's been given a makeover to suit the modern sex comedy genre.

    Worse yet, this instalment never seems like it actually accomplishes anything. These characters are more of the same. Finch is there to confess his love for Stifler's mother, Kevin is there to whinge his way through everything, Stifler is there to shag anything that moves, etc. And of course Levy as Jim's dad is going to make a few more allegedly funny situations created at the expense of Jim's embarrment. The final insult concerns Stifler...learning his lesson and starting to change his ways. Yet this seems thoroughly pointless because by the end of the movie he's still foul-mouthed and he still just yearns for sex. Of course, for this genre it's customary for these unnecessary sub-plots to be included. The script seems to go no-where. It's drenched in dispiriting amounts of conventions leading towards the predictable wedding that we all know will turn out okay. Every other aspect of the filmmaking is standard. Acting is fair, with the exception of Jason Biggs who sometimes seems very disjointed and uncoordinated.

    Overall, American Pie: The Wedding takes things too far. It's only for you if you find the following things hilarious: eating dog poo, shagging a granny, dance off in a gay bar, etc. Bottom line: mildly entertaining with a good soundtrack, but wholly unnecessary.
  • July 12, 2008
    Well polish my nuts and serve me a milkshake.
  • May 19, 2008
    woeful,just bad , the highlight was the danceoff in the gay bar, and now thats saying something
  • March 5, 2008
    Stiffler finally eats shit
  • November 17, 2009
    My all time favorite
  • November 15, 2009
    American Wedding was a pretty funny movie, but it wasn't as great as the first two American Pie films.
  • November 5, 2009
    Humor gringo chafa (como siempre). Es un asco.
  • October 28, 2009
    very funny comedy ... if u liked the first 2 u will love this one...
  • October 24, 2009
    craziest movie I ever saw

Critic Reviews


August 19, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A worn-out gross-out. full review

August 2, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

If there was ever a case of Hollywood's over-stroking a formula to squeeze every last drop out of it, American Wedding is it. full review

August 1, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The strain and desperation are apparent from the first scene. full review

August 1, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Although the movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene, it has a sweetness that is impossible to discount, and it is often very funny. full review

July 31, 2003
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The fastest, funniest, wildest entry in the series. full review

July 30, 2003
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

There's plenty of penis-related disasters going on in director Jesse Dylan's ode to friendship, fidelity and clandestine fellatio. full review

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  • brawlalley21
    November 23, 2008
    The best movie after the first two sequel produced from the same Title and production... Great...!!
  • thedoctor2k7
    June 11, 2008
    i liked this movie
  • craig8000
    April 13, 2007
    i thought it was crap the second one is the best

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