American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
Review by Jason Gaston
So, okay... it's better than Band Camp but that's like
saying that death by lethal injection is better than death by the gas
chamber.
Yes, friends
and fiends, American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and
since this franchise moved to video, it's been little more than hokey
badly written teenage sex comedies riding on name recognition. Nothing
about these movies relate to their namesakes and, if you do end up
renting this hoping for the laughs of the original theatrical trio,
you will be sorely disappointed.
At the time I write this, I also reviewed A Night at the Museum
lamenting that when you have a filmmaker with a hundred million bucks
to spend on special effects, the story usually is neglected...
apparently, this is true if you have loads of breasts and ass to show
off. Lots of nudity... not much else.
Like Band Camp, The Naked Mile focuses on a Stifler... this
time, not one but two! One, the raging dickhead horn dog party animal
that we've grown to hate and the other, a virginal boy hoping to get
laid on a guilt-free pass from his virgin girlfriend.
What we're left with is a half-assed story about how a horny high
school kid predictably chooses love over lust and Eugene Levy
collecting a paycheck for what looks like six hours of actual work.
As expected, this movie is pitiful, cheap, and unfunny... venturing
into the ridiculous with a very pathetic subplot about a fraternity
made up completely of little people and their rivalry with horny
Stifler's frat. The comedy from this bit is so awkward and unfunny
that it actually had me cringing. Hey, want to get really politically
incorrect? Make it a black fraternity and drop the n-bomb a couple of
times after all, apparently making fun of minority populations is
freakin' hilarious.
I can't make crap like that up, folks. For that, you need overpaid
studio executives and a couple of hacks sitting at a laptop. Give this
one a pass, ladies and gentlemen.

