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Title: These guys take chances...really.
Review: "American Pie" is daring in that it presents as its heroes 4 young men, relatively popular and good-looking guys, who have made it to their senior year of high school as VIRGINS! Amazing--it's been years since Hollywood portrayed teenage life in this manner. Anyway, "American Pie" is a raunchy teen flick happily devoid of the aesthetic ugliness that characterized John Hughes films (what happened to John Hughes?). It's actually a pretty funny film, even in its nastier moments (the, uh, hyper-expedited digestion scene with Finch is completely contrived and unnecessary). One question--why would Jim get jiggy with the pie in the kitchen, with the blinds open where anyone can see or walk in? He couldn't wait to get the luscious pie into his bedroom, where he could spend some private time with it? That one stretches the limits of plausibility. Really.
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