After a year at University the team are again reunited during summer break and decide that they should spend the summer at the beach where they will need to get a job but will also have the opportunity to spend the time chasing women. All of the main characters have returned for this second instalment of the American Pie franchise and again most of the comedy is generated by Jason Biggs as the luckless Jim. The film opens with Jim getting amourous on the last day of term when he is interrupted not only by his own parents but those of the young girl he is with. This film is not quite as goood as the first but it is not bad ad again the humour is pretty much ...  Read the complete review

I've said it before. I'll say it again. Sequels suck. Sure, you'll all come back at me with a few examples of where the follow-up(s) was actually better than the original movie, but largely, a sequel is usually only made to squeeze the last few dollars from a dead, or dying, franchise and subsequently usually ends up tarnishing the positive reputation that the original movie may well have had. Think 'The Crow II: City Of Angels' and you've probably figured it out already. American Pie 2 (strangely titled 'Secret Disguise' in the working stages) is different. The 'surprise' box office success of 1999 (although I can't ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room The original American Pie is something of a cultural milestone; it has so many iconic scenes for the genre that can connect with teens, and is to the 2000s answer to what Animal House and Porkys was back in the 1980s. Against the odds, American Pie 2 is actually a pretty decent sequel that thrives on its characters as much as it does its crude and ridiculous situations. The film takes place just as the Summer break begins, with the four friends - Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs), Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (Chris Klein), Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) ...  Read the complete review

Director: James B Rogers Cast: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas Release date: 18th March 2002 Length: 1094mins (1 disc) DVD extras: The Baking Of American Pie 2, Director, writer and cast commentaries, Out-takes, deleted scenes, original casting tapes from American Pie, music video, crew featurette. With its famous pastry-humping scene 1999's American Pie established itself as the king of the teen gross-out genre, and it has never quite been toppled by the many clones such as Road Trip, Tomcats, and Dude, Where's my Car? What made American pie different from the average coming-of-age comedy ...  Read the complete review

AAs its name suggests this was the long awaited sequel to American Pie and it took nearly 2 years to get it in the cinemas. Launched in 2001 this film was really hyped up and had a lot to live up to and it did not disappoint. Time has moved on and our four heroes, being Jim (played by Jason Biggs), Oz (played by Chris Klein), Kevin (played by Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (played by Eddie Kay Thomas) have just completed their first year of college. The boys re-unite and decide to kick back and spend the summer at Stifler's (played by Sean William Scott) beach house. The pick up truck is loaded and the boys head off to the beach with the only thing ...  Read the complete review