American Wedding, the third movie in the teen comedy trilogy famous for sexual humor, fulfills and surpasses its reputation for outrageous, raunchy situational comedy.
Instead of pie, it's cake, wedding cake, which in one scene ends up covered in pubic hair when Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) decides to shave his pubic area for his wedding night and shakes the rug off above the air vent for the kitchen.
Jim and his high school band camp sweetheart Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) are getting married, but the two find out that their high school friends and their ability to get them in trouble is still a problem.
In his quest to woo and win Michelle's beautiful virginal sister, Cadence (January Jones), Stifler manages to wreck most of the wedding, while everyone tries to make the best possible wedding for Michelle.
Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) returns to wreak his politically incorrect havoc on the wedding. On a quest to find the maker of the perfect dress for Michelle, Jim sends Stifler to look for the dressmaker in a bar. Stifler unknowingly enters a gay club, where his macho additude gets him in trouble. To make things right, Stifler has to out-dance everyone in the club, an outlandish scene involving a lot of bad music and oh-so-bad dance moves. Always confident, Stifler makes a new and unlikely friend, Bear (Eric Allen Kramer) in the dance-off.
Stifler, in charge of the bachelor party, plans a wild bachelor party surprise that goes dreadfully awry when it becomes clear that Jim was planning a respectful, quiet evening with Michelle's parents to patch things up.
Some of Bear's women friends who are strippers, hired for the evening, have trouble figuring out that their gig is over.
My one criticism would be that Stifler is so good at his character, so outlandish and screen-stealing, that the movie is too focused on him, instead of the complicated situations weddings tend to bring.
For example, Jim's grandmother doesn't approve of a non-Jewish girl marrying her grandson. Stifler, who is entrusted with the ring by acting like an upstanding boy, accidentally lets the dog eat the wedding ring and has to stand by watching and waiting all day.
But in the end, good friends come through for the couple, who realize they are still sex-crazed and perverted despite the step forward into marriage.
Look for great performances from Jim's dad (Eugene Levy), Michelle's dad (Fred Willard) and Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge), who all starred in several Christopher Guest films, such as Best In Show.
It is irreverent humor including body fluids, kicks below the belt, and eating dog poop, but it will definitely make you laugh out loud at least once.
The Universal Pictures film was directed by Jesse Dylan and written by Adam Herz. Running time 96 minutes.
