American Pie
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 9, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
11
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Dallas ObserverGlenn Gaslin
It's painful, it's real, and it's probably the funniest thing you'll see this year...a teen sexploitation classic. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
In addition to being extremely funny, the film has a warm spirit and respect for the characters. Read full review
88
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Vulgar and lewd and raunchy like you wouldn't believe, and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end.
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Unusual in its ability to mix bodily functions humor with a sincere and unlooked-for sense of decency. Read full review
80
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Pie has some nice surprises and is enjoyable in a smutty, sitcom way. It offers up the outrageousness of "There's Something About Mary" without wallowing in cruelty.
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The successful bits, along with an amiable cast of losers and their prom-night prey, make American Pie a winner. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It is not inspired, but it's cheerful and hard-working and sometimes funny, and--here's the important thing--it's not mean. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Exceptionally funny, unexpectedly tender, and lewder than a teenage boy's dreams.
75
USA TodayMike Clark
The presence of "Election's" Chris Klein as the male contingent's most sensitive member only emphasizes how much smarter that high school comedy was. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Guaranteed to beguile anyone who can remember the joy -- and agony -- of anticipating the first time.
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A lively, disposable hybrid of the sincere and the synthetic. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Alternately sweet and raucous comedy. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Distinct from others of its lowly stripe because of the credibly real-feeling performances by much of its youthful ensemble.
63
Chicago TribuneMarc Caro
Both funny and foul, alternately frank and full of it. Read full review
60
TNT RoughCutM. Meghan McCarthy
What is refreshing about this film is that most of the characters seem like real people.
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Cheesy homage to a level of horniness Austin Powers could only imagine will be a dream movie for many a teenage boy. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
The movie lover in you will recoil; your inner sophomore will rejoice. Read full review
60
NewsweekJeff Giles
A surprisingly earnest and cautionary movie, careful to attract female viewers and not freak parents out too badly. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated.
50
SalonMary Elizabeth Williams
I'd appreciate toilet humor more if it weren't so often so unimaginative. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
A limp excuse for a coming-of-age flick, more interested in sexploits than sex, more adept at gross-out than girls. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A go-for-the-lowest-common-denominator grab bag of raunchy sex gags and freakish outbursts. The cool thing is that it works. Read full review
40
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Returns the teen movie to the uncomplicated glory days of "Porky's" and "Losin' It." Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Among this year's bumper crop of shallow teen-age movies, it is the shallowest and the most prurient. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
An uninteresting take on a tired formula that is only occasionally funny and usually pretty gross.
30
Film.comErnest Hardy
What really makes the film fall dead (although the preview audience I saw it with howled from beginning to end) are the actors and the way the characters have been scripted. Read full review
30
Film.comRobert Horton
The fact that isolated bits are amusing shouldn't keep us from strongly noting that this movie really is pretty awful -- not at all worthy of guilty pleasure status. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Idiotic. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeJim Sullivan
Gross and tasteless...this high-school romp mixes the gross and tasteless with sentimental mush. Read full review
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