Paul e Chris Weitz
American Pie

In 1999, the hilarious and incredibly funny “American Pie” was released, receiving significant critical and public acclaim, leading to two sequels in just a few years. It’s the classic American teen comedy, based entirely on sexually-themed gags. Five friends in their senior year of high school decide to join forces to achieve their incredible and seemingly unattainable goal: to have intimate relations with a graceful and alluring girl. Will our heroes succeed?? Of course, they will... amidst parties, dances, and countless failed attempts, they finally manage to escape their miserable state of frustrated virgins!!!

Sure, the film is filled from start to finish with overused clichés, predictable situations, gratuitous vulgarities, terrible jokes, gags bordering on the ridiculous and absurd. But let’s not forget that this film set the standard for its genre, becoming the essential foundation for anyone undertaking similar works. It has been the model and point of reference for hundreds of films that openly copied and mimicked it. Looking back now, retrospectively, the film seems like nonsense: but when it was released, it was fresh and entertaining, a breath of joy and carefree spirit with a style that was new and original for its time. And then it faithfully represents the world of all those 18-year-olds with pimples, calluses on their hands, testosterone leaking out of their ears, hormones out of control, and a huge desire for sex!!! Who, watching it, didn't see themselves in those jerks who go to parties, look at the girls, and get all sorts of complexes because, damn, nothing ever goes right for them?? Who hasn’t dreamed of banging Stifler’s mom on the pool table?? Or finding themselves in a room with a hot Czechoslovakian chick who asks for math tutoring and then masturbates on your bed??

In short, in my opinion, it’s a fun movie that humorously and imaginatively tells the true and real world of our depressed high schoolers, their first adventures with the opposite sex, their nonsense, their problems: we’re not talking about great cinema, but sometimes you can let go of seriousness and enjoy a simple and well-executed comedy.