It's 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 sister.I was never very big on the whole crude humor craze of the late 1990s. The "American Pie" films and "Van Wilder" were funny, to be sure, but also stunted by their juvenile and often grotesque situations. With "Van Wilder", the dog cream pies should never have happened, and in this film there are a few moments that might be disgusting to many viewers.But there is a little bit of sweetness to this one. Despite all the sex and poop, there is still a bond of friendship and a romantic love. Well, sort of. So, in many ways, this is on par with the original, maybe even better in some ways. But, of course, why am I so concerned about a film series most known for Jason Biggs making love to a pie?

Not all the cast from the original movie return this time around, but that doesn't mean that their is a shortage of laughs, as this for me is on par with the original movie.Plot In A Paragraph: Jim and Michelle are getting married, but in true American Pie style their are a few mishaps on the way to the alter, as Jim tries to impress Michelle's parents and Stiffler and Finch compete for a bridesmaid. The genius of this movie is that although the movies main plot focuses on the wedding of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Flannigan) for the first time in the franchise, the movies main sub plot focus's on Stifler, and his crazy antics including trying to organise a legendary bachelor party for Jim, accidentally going to a gay bar, teaching Jim to dance for the wedding, and competing with Finch to win Michelle's younger sister.Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) doesn't return, and isn't really missed, ditto Sherman (Chris Owen). Vicky (Tara Reid) doesn't return either, which may be down to Reid's problems in real life (However this leaves Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) with less to do. Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) doesn't return, but with no Vicky, she is not needed. The big miss is Oz (Chris Klein) who also does not reappear in this movie and his absence isn't explained. Although according to the trivia section on here, a deleted scene mentions that he and Heather (Mena Suvari) are in Spain. In reality Klein was filming "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson and scheduling conflicts meant he could not make it. If all the absences made it possible to give Seann William Scott more screen time as Stifler, I'm all for it, as he completely stole this movie. Eugene Levy is again brilliant as Jim's dad, January Jones is OK as Candice, Michelle's sister Candice, Fred Wilard and Deborah Rush are both a lot of fun as Michelle's parents, as is Eric Allen Kramer as Bear. Sadly, despite her wedding being the main focus of the movie. Alyson Hannigan isn't given as much to do as one would hope, but is as great as she always in the scenes she has. With several laugh out loud moments I rate this on par with the original and I find it is maybe more rewatchable that the first movie. Stifler having a dance off at the gay bar was comedy gold and is hilarious.

Yeah, so if you liked the first two as much as I did, you'll probably fin this movie fun and entertaining. Here's the thing though, it's not really an AP movie. The movie isn't about bro-mance, and it's not even REALLY about Jim, Keven, Chris, and Finch, it's about Stiffler. You can say whatever you want about how it's the wedding of Jim and Michele so it's about them but it's not. The majority of screen time is given to Stiffler and his antics which is too bad, because Sean William Scott can't carry a movie very well, and he because old and annoying quickly. This being said the movie has a lot of laughs, a lot of heart, and, yes, bestiality jokes. The main problem is that it is not original, or even really an AP movie. American Wedding is pretty much a slightly raunchier rom-com. I was let down a great deal by this movie, even though I liked it. I'm a huge Alyson Hannigan fan, so I was excited to see her as a lead, and had she have ACTUALLY been the lead, alongside Jason Biggs, the movie would have been much better. It's also not really an AP movie because it's not a bromance, and where the heck is Chris?! So yeah, watch it and enjoy it if you like the first two AP's, but don't expect anything as good as the first two. Basically, it should have been a bromantic comedy not a romantic comedy, and it's American Wedding, not American Stiffler.

I have mentioned before that American Pie 2 is a better movie than the first in my opinion. American Wedding is not as good as it's previous encounters at all It seems the writers were starting to lose ideas of what to do with the characters. The drama isn't as strong as it used to be and things are seem to be focused a little more on Stifler who was a supporting characters in the first two movies. Still it makes out for a lot of fun. The jokes seem to be hit-or-miss in terms of good writing but even the lesser jokes still get a laugh out of me. Guilty as charged I guess. It's not the best movie ever made but it's a good one and it makes me a laugh a lot. Some silly fun and I love it.