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American Pie: Reunion is yet another installment in this series of films, with this one being much anticipated due to most of the original cast returning in their more adult roles.

It opens with American Pie’s golden couple, Jim and Michelle, who have been married for years and have a two-year-old son. Their sex life has fizzled out, an issue which becomes the underlying theme to the whole movie. Stifler has not left his adolescence behind, Oz has become a famous sportscaster and Kevin and Finch are much the same. Jim’s dad provides his good old-fashioned advice as well as a lot of the film’s humour, and they have not forgotten to include the token “Mrs Robinson” (a.k.a. Stifler’s mum).

The film’s title is a little misleading as the film is set more in the lead-up to their reunion, which only features in the last 15 minutes or so of the film. However, as far as comedy goes the film certainly delivers. The one-liners certainly live up to the movie’s predecessors and there is plenty of full frontal nudity, including an explicit visual of Jason Biggs’s, err, “package”. The film is put together competently and leaves few plot holes. It contains elements from all three of the original films and also incorporates a lot of the old soundtrack, including New Zealand’s Bic Runga.

This film caters to anyone who finds amusement in the crude, rude and just plain gross. It would be of particular interest to those in the uni-student age group who saw the original films in high school and can now relate to the age group of the characters now. All in all, a must-see!

Taryn Dryfhout