I assume this was a special feature DVD thing but I actually saw it as a full length one-piece documentary, on Youtube while searching for unrelated teen comedies.
The American Pie documentary is long but loaded with tons of great stories from the writers and producers (all high school friends) and the directors, some of the production crew, almost all of the actors including the Man Himself, Eugene Levy. All of the included stories are great and reveal a lot about the production itself but also the people involved. Like the deleted Stiflers Dad scenes where Chris Penn plays basically Stifler but middle aged and a real jerk. Some of the interviews are genuinely funny like Jason Biggs talking about how he coped with being the subject of most of the weirder material. Eventually we find out almost all of Jims adventures were inspired by real life events from the producers and writers.
There's also plenty of good interviews from all the ladies, including Stiflers Mom and how they coped with the awkwardness of sitting down next to their parents at the premier screening. Jennifer Coolidge has a great story about smoking a pack of cigarettes in 25 minutes and then barfing all over a car. Then she cleans up, gets right back in, and propositions Finch.
Overall very entertaining. True fans definitely need to watch this but also casual fans will have plenty to learn and they will enjoy it.
My ONLY complaint with this friggen thing is that in 3 and a half hours they never actually tell us WHERE the term milf originated. Was it a new term made by the writers specifically for the movie? Or was it something they said as teenagers and decided years later to integrate into the movie? And in all my searches I never once got a solid answer. Was hoping it had been here. It was not.
10/10 Anyway. It does what a documentary should do, provide insight and entertainment.
