American Pie 2
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 10, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
10
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Mr. ShowbizCody Clark
Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.
10
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A slipshod sequel that looks tossed together over a weekend by people who couldn't care less. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The funniest scenes involve Jim and his father, thanks to the brilliant, improvisational skills of Eugene Levy. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Very, very funny, albeit inferior in a number of ways to the original. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Delivers more of what the original promised, with the crudity index up one notch and the humor index down quite a few. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
This film isn't so much a sequel to the original "American Pie" as a reduction of it. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
There's no real story and that would be fine, if Rogers and screenwriter Adam Herz could keep from pretending otherwise. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I laughed at American Pie 2, yes, but this is either going to be the last "Pie" movie or they're going to have to get a new angle. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
A remarkably boring comedy. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Lacks both taste and flavor.
60
TV Guide MagazineFrank Lovece
This lively and nicely timed comedy has plenty enough, farce, slapstick and even drawing-room humor. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeElizabeth Barchas
Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Hardly works up a decent belly laugh before its characters are happily pairing off with whomever they desire most. The film is like skipping the orgasm and going straight for the cigarette. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Of all the characters in American Pie 2, male or female, Michelle is the only one who feels completely rounded and whole. She moves with unerring grace and subtlety through this feeble minefield of a movie, unharmed by the tepid jokes that flop and fizzle around her. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Pie 2's greatest asset is the rare, infectious amiability of its cast of characters and the actors playing them. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's all patently ridiculous, but it's also ridiculously fun. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It's a copy all the way, a disheartening attempt to capitalize on the success of the original. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Doesn't make much sense on a story level, and it has a cheap, slapdash look that indicates no one behind the camera was interested in anything other than another fat payday.
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The "American Pie" movies succeed where many other comedies aimed at the youth market falter: they manage to be both lewd and sweet, exploiting the natural prurience of young people while implicitly comforting their raging anxieties. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
American Pie 2, which brings back the same cast for more of the same, is just another by-the-numbers, money-hungry sequel with a lot of recycled shaggy-sex jokes and gross-out gags. Read full review
70
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
Somewhere between setup and punch line, American Pie 2 starts feeling less like a sequel and more like the second episode of a TV series, a case of fine-tuning after the pilot's been picked up by the network. Read full review
50
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
A cheap and easy amusement, one that's gone a little stale and never quite rises to the occasion. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
No longer fresh -- though that's to be expected in a sequel -- it contains none of the virtues that made the first one anarchic and original. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The simple premise of one scene of table-turning voyeurism is brilliant. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
It delivers all the raunch and ribaldry its designated audience could hope for, but others may find it more deliberately disgusting than effervescently outrageous. Read full review
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