It's all about joy and high energy - even music from Third Eye Blind and Barenaked Ladies that suffers from radio overplay fits the mood appropriately. They also know how to use foul language for punch, rather than punctuation. I wouldn't dare give away any of the really great gags (we've all seen the trailer - that's not the one I mean), but I'll say this: Weitz and Herz are extraordinarily skilled in audience manipulation, which is to say that they know how and when to spring unexpected surprises upon us. This is the first conventional high school movie I've ever seen that made me smile so much (I say conventional because "Rushmore" still trumps every one of them). Most high school movies these days are all about cruelty and malice, especially towards (and among) the women. With Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan. Moreover, it's heart is in the right place. American Pie: Directed by Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz. Thankfully, they're two-dimensional, so right away it has an edge on 60-70% of all the movies ever made. For starters, the characters aren't all one-dimensional. I mean, almost none of the things that happen in this film would ever, ever come to pass in real life, but it doesn't matter. There's not much of that restricting, suffocating "logic" stuff around, but "American Pie" is immensely enjoyable. The director and the writer, Paul Weitz and Adam Herz respectively, will do anything for a laugh - that's good, as it turns out, because this movie has a great many laughs in it.
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