Genre: Comedy, Marriage, Teenage, Love, Gay/Lesbian, Animals, Mistaken Identity, Love Triangle, Farce
Tagline: This time they're going all the way.
Plot: Jim (JASON BIGGS) and Michelle (ALYSON HANNIGAN) are getting married.With East Great Falls High, foreign exchange students, band camp, crazy glue and summer college vacations now a thing of the past, Jim and Michelle’s friends and family are ready to help usher the couple down the aisle and over the threshold into adulthood. Michelle wants the wedding to be perfect. Not exactly an easy task, even with everyone on their best behavior and getting along…which probably isn’t going to happen. Michelle’s knock-out sister, Cadence (JANUARY JONES), has flown in to help out her sis as Maid of Honor. And once Stifler (SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT) and Finch (EDDIE KAYE THOMAS) catch sight of Cadence—the war to woo is on. With all rules out the window, Stifler turns on his charismatic charm to nab the babe. Stifler? “Charismatic charm”? Cautioned to tone it down by a nervous Jim—who already has his hands full trying to impress Michelle’s somewhat stuffy parents, Harold and Mary (FRED WILLARD and DEBORAH RUSH)—Stifler abandons his customary plan of attack and becomes the charming would-be boyfriend of every nice girl’s dreams…which leaves Finch with no choice but to play the bad boy, with Cadence torn between perfect gentleman Stifler and that low-life Finch. It’s good for Jim that some
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 The movie grinds slowly, inexorably toward the bawdy, bad-taste shenanigans that observe the decorum usually found only in the letters section of Penthouse Forum. The limp, boring jokes are relentless. The makers of ''Wedding'' have so effectively managed to make offensiveness seem tame that this could be subversion financed by the religious right.--Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times)
The third entry into the American Pie series, this movie is a vast improvement over the tired and uninspired American Pie 2, although it fails to make it to the lofty perch occupied by the first film. The recipe, which probably doesn't need additional refining, brings back some of the sweetness of the original American Pie, and combines it with the expected ingredients of excessive raunchiness and vulgarity.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The latest in the "American Pie" franchise is exactly the kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
There is no joke too low for the movie to stoop to, no melodrama too broad, no human weakness too pitiful to satirize, and yet, because the filmmakers and the actors like these characters and wish them well and want them to somehow live happily ever after, all is redeemed. The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Defines everything I hate about big Hollywood comedies D+--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
Hits a home run in the laugh department B--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)
Entertaining for its running time, but instantly forgettable the next day B---Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
You can see some of their gags coming from a mile away; that enables you to cringe as you brace for another I-can't-believe-they-did-that moment. And there are many, some funny and some just disgusting. Still, these characters have grown on the audience and it's impossible not to root for them and hope that the ceremony, at least, goes off without something truly embarrassing.--Ron Weiskind (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
If this is the last film in the American Pie series, it is a wonderful thing to know that the comedy franchise went out on a huge high note. 8/10--Joseph Kastner (Movie-Vault.com)
The movie is basically entertaining all the way through and does contain a number of genuine laughs. And that's something that's becoming quite rare among comedies.  --David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
Some things still sit uneasy - the stripper sequence feels degrading - but the target audience will lap it up. No sniggering at the back.  --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
We've grown to care about these dorks and loudmouths, and it's nice to hang out some more with them even though this is inferior to the previous movies in the series. --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
The only thing really disappointing is that Alyson Hannigan’s band geek character is underused in what is a really good comedy. 75/100--Jamie Gillies (Apollo Guide)
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Jesse Dylan
Kicking & Screaming, How High, William Eggleston in the Real World |
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Adam Herz
American Pie, American Pie 2, American Pie Presents Band Camp |
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There are a couple of surprises in the I-can't-believe-they're-doing-this vein, but mostly, "Pie 3" is an aimless charade of doggy poo, latex breasts and really, really bad language.  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
They should have just given Stifler his own movie or called this third installment in the AMERICAN PIE series STIFLER'S REVENGE or something, because without him, this film would be nothing more than a series of montages, musical interludes and generallyunsuccessful comedic set pieces, all organized around see-through, uninvolving and unbelievable "dramatic" sequences in which nobody really seems to connect in any way, shape or form. 5/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
The always watchable cast do their best but the script feels strained and a lot of the gags fall flat - sadly, the Pie isn’t as fresh as it used to be.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
"American Wedding" finds the "American Pie" franchise a full two films removed from its last breath of inspiration and flailing, blue-in-the-face, in the direction of anything that might reel in a laugh.--Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
Offers nothing new to the genre whatsoever - but chances are you'll laugh anyway. 6/10--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
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