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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- It's painful, it's real, and it's probably the funniest thing you'll see this year...a teen sexploitation classic.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe successful bits, along with an amiable cast of losers and their prom-night prey, make American Pie a winner.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is not inspired, but it's cheerful and hard-working and sometimes funny, and--here's the important thing--it's not mean.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyExceptionally funny, unexpectedly tender, and lewder than a teenage boy's dreams.
- 75USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkThe presence of "Election's" Chris Klein as the male contingent's most sensitive member only emphasizes how much smarter that high school comedy was.
- Both funny and foul, alternately frank and full of it.
- 60TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutWhat is refreshing about this film is that most of the characters seem like real people.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAnother giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers.
- 50Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated.
- 30Film.comErnest HardyFilm.comErnest HardyWhat really makes the film fall dead (although the preview audience I saw it with howled from beginning to end) are the actors and the way the characters have been scripted.