pinkrebel

after viewing and forming extremely socially conscious opinions of the first two american pie movies, i had absolutely REFUSED to have anything to do with the third, and hopefully, final installment. free tickets=my defeat. well, at least i didn't pay for it, thus not CONTRIBUTING to this kind of drivel. so i went to the theatre with my very typical 18 year old white male boyfriend.

the bottom line is, i really don't care about these upper middle class kids and their happy existences. i don't care about their parties and shenanigans, it's banal and WAY overdone in hollywood right now.

but i was expecting a lot worse than what i got. american wedding was kind of touching. i began to empathize with the cast and the culmination of all their adolescent misadventures. solid themes like friendship and family made themselves apparent for possibly the first time in the trite trilogy. i'm a bit disgusted to say it, but i enjoyed american wedding and hated my generation much less after seeing that some things are still a little bit sacred, though not completely exempt from playful defilement.

If you are religious, if you believe in miracles, if you believe that religion has nothing to do with miracles, if you HATE religion, if you are Catholic, if you are Roman Catholic, if you grew up in such a home, if you despise the hypocrisy of it all, you should see this movie. If you are Italian, if you speak Italian, if you are planning to travel to Italy, if you like Italian food, if you are learning Italian, if you even know anyone who is Italian you need to see this movie. If you've been affected by a psychological disorder, if you have a psychological disorder, if you are a psychologist, if you have a psychologist. If you have a mother. If you've seen Big Top Pee-Wee and thought "Gina" was hot. See Respiro.

I saw this movie in a small theatre and could tell who the aforementioned italomaniacs were in the crowd by the eruptions of laughter that would occur before the (occasionally poorly translated) subtitles appeared. The friend I went to see this with was wont to turn to me at choice moments during the film and inquire as to "WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" Charming, warm. Absolutely beautiful location. Vibrant characters. Simplistic filming. Multi-faceted story, bringing together a family and a community and managing to tell several stories at once, I can't find anything bad to say about this movie.

my boyfriend and his friends made me go see this movie and i was dreading it because i'm kind of a snob that thinks she's way too good for unintelligent slapstick comedy but i actually did like it OK. by the last hour or so i was really ready for it to be over. will farrell's exposure was a bit difficult to watch and at some points it seemed too much like a feature film length "girls gone wild". it definitely had its redeeming qualities.