American Pie 8 The Reunion 720p Download
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Former classmate John, one half of the "MILF" duo, organizes the Class of 1999 high school reunion in East Great Falls, Michigan. Jim and Michelle return to Jim's dad's house, where he encounters his neighbor Kara, whom he used to babysit. Kara is almost 18.
Stifler quits his job but not before standing up to his boss and they head to the reunion together: Kevin reconciles with Vicky; Finch makes amends for lying to Selena; Oz reunites with Heather after breaking up with Mia and Stifler punches Ron for threatening Oz. Jim reconciles with Michelle and Nadia (who appears with a man by her side) interrupts them having sex but is pleased to see them still together. Jessica reveals that she is a lesbian, and with Stifler's help, Sherman hooks up with Loni.
Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge) and Stifler himself (Seann William Scott) seem to be trapped in a warp in time. The other members of the old high school gang, now in their early 30s, have moved on in one way or another. So much have they matured, indeed, that when three of the guys plan to get together three days early in the old hometown to get an early start on the class reunion, they actually don't even let Stifler know their plans. They still like the Stifmeister, but they keenly recall the trouble that he got them into in their previous meetings.
"American Pie" (1999), "American Pie 2" (2001) and "American Wedding" (2003) have made the cast so familiar that this movie actually feels sort of like our reunion with them. We get an update. Oz (Chris Klein) has become a sports expert on an ESPN-like channel. Jim and Michelle (Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan) are still married and have a baby boy as consolation for the fact that their sex life has ground to a halt. Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) has apparently morphed into an adventurer who scales mountains and roars through exotic nightclubs.
Today, the fourth American Pie movie (or eighth, depending on a person's definition of American Pie canon) is in theaters. This version is called American Reunion because all of the main characters attend a reunion. As a service, we answer every question you could possibly have about American Reunion.
A: That's kind of an issue, actually. To be fair, the film doesn't fudge the numbers -- everyone here is attending their 13-year high school reunion. In passing, Kevin mentions that the 10-year reunion never caught traction, but that fellow graduates of the Class of 1999 seem really into the idea of a 13-year reunion. Movie magic, everyone!
As always, the perpetually horny but dependably virtuous Jim must be subjected to all manner of strained humiliations, this time involving a nubile girl-next-door (Ali Cobrin) he used to babysit. In accordance with recent lowbrow-comedy trends, Biggs, after years of consistently dropping his drawers, goes fearlessly full-frontal in a scene that will likely provide a major selling point. On a duller note, the relational complications between Kevin and Vicky, Oz and Heather, and Finch and band-nerd-turned-hottie Selena (Dania Ramirez) play out at snooze-inducing length during the reunion-night climax.
Since the first film was released, a stream of funnier, edgier ensemble movies and comedies has come and gone -- The Hangover, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad -- and they've blazed newer, more memorable trails. The jokes here are tired; the takeaways predictable. (Marriage needs work? You don't say.) And the plotlines are flabby and bordering on creepy -- for example, the one about Jim and his next-door neighbor. It's a little like going to your own reunion and discovering that you're not as nimble, as hardy, or as, well, young as you once were. Only, if it was your own reunion, you'd hope to discover that you were wiser and better and happier. American Reunion, sadly, isn't.
In American Reunion Oz is now a famous sports anchorman and has a supermodel girlfriend named Mia, who is really self centered and vapid. Oz meets his ex Heather at the beach and is introduced to her boyfriend, Ron, who turnsa out to be a big jerk as he tries to embarrass Oz by showing his Celebrity Dance Off video to everyone. Oz later breaks up with Mia, while Heather breaks up with Ron at the reunion. They both rekindle their relationship and Oz decides to stay in Michigan with Heather instead of moving back to LA. Oz mentioned that he missed Jim's wedding, but he won't miss the reunion and reuniting with his friends.
Nine years after their marriage, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are raising a toddler and are too pooped to pound the bedsprings. When he thinks the missus is otherwise engaged, he fires up his laptop, if you get my meaning, and I suspect you do. In a bid to revive their relationship and regain the lost spirit of youth, they decide to return home for a class reunion.
Gross-out humor gets sprinkled in here and there, yet it all seems stale, juvenile and much too icky. Even the reunion scenario fails to live up to expectations, with the actual event generating muted laughter at best, while clumsily wrapping up all the relationship melodrama.
Jim and Michelle (Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan) are now married with a 2-year-old son and zero sex life. But they return to their Michigan hometown for a 10-year high school reunion that's being staged three years late because supposedly no one could get their act together on time. It's a plot contrivance, leave it at that.
Jim, of course, remains famous for a viral YouTube posting of his sexual antics in his school days. A return to East Great Falls for the reunion will rekindle a lot of memories, many of them embarrassing.
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