American Reunion (15) **Dir: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott
Plot: It is 13 years since the gang graduated High School, and they've all come home for their reunion. Marriage, new commitments, and missing the past all come together in the fourth of the films to make it to the big screen (not including the straight to DVD Band Camp and so on).
Synopsis: Whilst the first and second film were amusing, the drawing out of the franchise to the seven or so films (including straight to DVD) is growing wearisome.
I know lots of people enjoy the series, or maybe I've grown boring, but after three previous installments I found the comedy to be the same as before, and the principal characters are all the same as in the first film.
Jason Biggs' Jim is the centre of attention, as usual, and his characters comedy comes, as before, from sheer cringe factor. Seann William Scott is still the sex and beer obsessed Stifler, and Jims dad (Eugene Levy) is still embarrassing.
While the premise of the film has changed from being all about getting sex to about relationships and how to make them work, it still , ultimately, boils down to sex (with Jim and Michelle (Hannigan) being stuck in a rut). There are, however, some nice moments - such as Jim trying to get his dad to start dating again after the death of his wife, and convincing the girl he used to babysit to find a decent guy to lose her virginity to.
The soundtrack is similar to the previous films as well, with pop-punk college rock being the staple, along with the throwing in of more recent chart hits.
If you're a teenager, and a fan of moderate sex references and soft-core breast and bum flashing, then this film will be right up your alley.
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