Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The 2012 Romantic Movie American Reunion

The American Pie gang gets back together in East Great Falls, Mich., for their 13th class reunion. In the fourth installment in the comedy series (not counting spinoffs), Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Steve (Seann William Scott) and Paul (Eddie Kaye Thomas) have grown up and gone their separate ways. They return for a weekend to remember old times, find out who and what has changed and reaffirm friendships.
American Reunion is the continuation of the American Pie series of movies and is here in the top romantic movies 2012. It is the eighth movie of this series and a continuation of the first three movies - American Pie, American Pie 2, and American Wedding. The original characters return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion, during which we get to see what has become of them in the years since the events of American Wedding. Many of the people who made up the original cast return to take up the roles they played years ago.
This is always wonderful to see as it helps draw the viewer into the story being told when familiar faces are involved. Even actors who played such parts as Chuck Sherman, Nadia, and Stifler's mom return in this movie. American Reunion will be worth seeing if you are new to the series or if you have been watching since the first movie came out in 1999. It is scheduled for release on April 6, 2012.
The first two American Pie films were, if not classics, then cultural powerhouses in their day. When your dad asks you, not the other way around, to watch American Pie 2 on a visit home from college, you know the film has entered the cultural zeitgeist and is not just a flash in the pan or appealing to a niche market.
Only the first film, titled American Pie (1999) has really aged well despite being laughingly nineties in appearance. There is something. . .charming. . .and even low key about this end-of-the-nineties flick that, though focused entirely on sex, was not actually JUST about sex. Being in high school during that film and being the targeted audience, it was nice to see people I could actually relate to as opposed to 32 year olds pretending to be younger and being way too cool for school (literally).

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