Director: Jesse Dylan
Release Date: 2003
Running Time: 1hr 36 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 15
Format: Sky Cinema
Synopsis:
It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.
In the third installment to the American Pie franchise we see Jim and Michelle become a married couple. I know what you're thinking, what could possibly go wrong right? Essentially? Everything. Although the third installment isn't a complete disaster, it also isn't by any means as entertaining as the first two films. The problem I always encounter with movie franchises, is the fact that more often than not, each film is made by a different director. The first two films were a real success. A part of me would of loved to have seen the story end there. Of course we have to take into account that Jim and Michelle's relationship only really starts to blossom at the end of American Pie 2, leaving it very open to what could come next.
The most disappointing aspect of this film, is honestly the dialogue. The script was poorly written, a few popular characters from the first two movies weren't even written into the script. Jim (Biggs) and Michelle (Hannigan) are getting married, it doesn't make a lot of sense for certain characters to not be present in the film or be part of the storyline. Too much attention was applied to Steve Stifler (Scott), almost making him the premise of the story, which I imagine wasn't the directors idea considering the name of the title. There are a couple of truly wonderful comedic moments, however it's a shame that they are few and far between.
Jason Biggs delivers a strong performance as Jim Levenstein, however some of his more embarrassing moments are becoming a little bit predictable, especially as they are always shown at the beginning of the film, that gag unfortunately has run its course. Alyson Hannigan, sadly doesn't give as strong a performance as she did in the first two films. Introducing January Jones as Cadence, Michelle's younger sister, Jones delivers a good performance, Jones goes onto play Steve Stifler's love interest. Sean William Scott, unfortunately is a little bit typecast, his character has start to become a bit too predictable in terms of his behaviour. There weren't really any real laugh out loud moments and despite the title name, the film seemed to focus a great deal around him, which to be honest confused me somewhat. What sort of motive where they actually going for?
The first two films were renowned for their up beat and feel good soundtracks. I felt a bit let down when it came to the soundtrack on this film. The sound department practically rushed the score when it came to making this movie. A scene involving two dogs, a cake, Jim and Stifler was practically ruined due to a song being played in the background. Not only you could you barely hear it, it was completely unnecessary, the scene would of worked brilliantly without it. As a whole I was really disappointed with this film, more so due to bad direction, rather than poor writing. This had the real potential to be excellent and unfortunately was nothing more than a complete let down.
3/5 stars
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