American Pie 2: Unrated

Reviewed by:
Eric Alt

Director J.B. Rogers, the guy who unsuccessfully aped the Farrelly brothers with Say It Isn’t So, tried unsuccesfully to ape the Weitz brothers with this, American Pie 2. What’s next? The Wachowski brothers? The Karamazov brothers? The Smothers brothers? Anyway, like its predecessor, AP2 comes in, like, eight different versions: Rated/Full Screen, Rated/Widescreen, Unrated/Widescreen, Unrated/With Poseable Jason Biggs Action Figure, Rated/With a Free Side of Onion Rings, etc. While the differences among them aren’t staggering, we recommend going “unrated” because when a movie is as disappointing as this one, you gotta take what you can get.

But that’s where things get a little schizo—you see, while a movie like AP2 practically demands that something extra be included just to make it worth your time, it also assumes that you really give enough of a crap to put said time in. We probably would’t have, if not for Eddie Kaye Thomas’ (Finch) solo commentary, which alone is almost worth the price of admission. One of four separate commentaries available, Thomas’ deadpan delivery and sardonic humor is more entertaining than what’s going on onscreen. (“I wasn’t there on that day. I assume that’s a dorm room.” “That guy’s a hell of a hackey-sack player, too.” “That’s a hell of a lamp back there.” “See, once again there’s Seann getting some action. And where’s Eddie? Not getting any action.” And the priceless, “Those are breasts.”) Fans of the movie will have a lot to dig through, while people who balked at a second helping the first time will probably do so again.

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