American Wedding (known as American Pie 3: The Wedding or American Pie: The Wedding, in some countries) is a 2003 American sex comedy film writt by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan. It is the sequel to American Pie (1999) and American Pie 2 (2001), and the third of the American Pie franchise. The franchise was later expanded into a series of direct-to-DVD standalone sequels, under the umbrella title American Pie Prests, that began with the release of Band Camp (2005).
The film's main plot focuses on the wedding ceremony of Jim Levstein (Jason Biggs) and Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan), while its subplot cters on Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott), and his outrageous antics including his attempt to organize a bachelor party, teaching Jim to dance for the wedding, and competing with Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) to win the heart of Michelle's sister, Cadce (January Jones).
It is the last film in the series to be writt by Herz, who conceptualized the franchise, and also the only theatrical film in the series in which Chris Klein (Oz), Chris Ow (Sherman), Ma Suvari (Heather), Tara Reid (Vicky), Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia) and Natasha Lyonne (Jessica) do not appear.
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Jim Levstein prepares to propose to Michelle at a restaurant wh his dad calls to tell him he has the ring. She misinterprets wh Jim stalls the question and his dad arrives as he is receiving fellatio from under the table. The mishap grasps everyone's atttion but Jim still proposes and Michelle accepts.
Jim wishes to exclude Steve Stifler from the wedding, who becomes upset wh he finds out. Stifler agrees to teach Jim how to dance if he is allowed at the wedding. Jim asks Stifler to mask his obnoxious personality in exchange for planning the bachelor party.
Jim, Stifler, Paul Finch, and Kevin Myers travel to Chicago to find the designer who makes the dress Michelle wants. Stifler inadverttly walks into a gay bar, and his initially raucous behavior gets several patrons annoyed. Battling Bear in a dance-off, Stifler is offered strippers by him for the bachelor party. Dress designer Leslie reveals himself and agrees to make the dress for Michelle.
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Michelle's younger sister, Cadce, flies in for the wedding. Both Finch and Stifler are attracted to her, and, trying to win her over, they each act differtly. Stifler arranges the bachelor party but does not tell Jim, who unknowingly invited Michelle's parts to dinner in his home. With assistance from Bear, who poses as a butler, Jim nearly succeeds in keeping the bachelor party a secret, until Michelle's mother ops a closet door to find Kevin inside; blindfolded, stripped to his boxers, and tied to a chair. They explain that it was a failed attempt to make Jim seem like a hero, and Michelle's parts tell him if he puts that much effort into the upcoming marriage, they can give their blessing.
Michelle is concerned that Jim's paternal grandmother disapproves of the wedding as she is not Jewish. On the night before the wedding, Stifler inadverttly turns off the walk-in refrigerator while getting a bottle of champagne to seduce Cadce, which kills the flowers. Stifler finally reveals his true rude and obnoxious personality. Angry, Jim asks him to leave, and all the others, including Cadce (who has heard him talking about doing her), support Jim's decision.
Feeling guilty for his thoughtless behavior, Stifler convinces the florist to put together a new batch of flowers, and he lists the help of his football players and Bear. As a gesture of remorse, he also gives a rose to Cadce. Moved by his actions, she agrees to have sex with him in a supply closet before the ceremony, but Stifler's presce is delayed by a brief meeting Jim calls among his groomsm, citing how he is grateful to have frids like them.
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Quickly returning to the hotel, Stifler hears someone in the supply closet and steps inside, unaware that Cadce was interrupted by wedding preparations and that Jim's disgruntled grandmother was shoved inside by the ushers, the MILF guys from high school. Stifler only realizes this upon walk-in by Finch and Kevin. She becomes pleasant, particularly towards Stifler, making Michelle and Jim's dad happy.
Despite the chaotic evts leading up to it, Michelle and Jim get married. At the reception, the couple dances while Stifler dances with Cadce. Finch sits by himself until Stifler's mom arrives. Although agreeing they are over each other, Stifler's mom mtions having a hotel suite and invites Finch to join her. The film ds with the MILF guys (Justin and John) spying on Stifler's mom and Finch having sex in the hot tub.
The film's soundtrack includes songs by Van Morrison, Blue October, The Working Title, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Avril Lavigne, American Hi-Fi, Sum 41, the All-American Rejects, Joseph Arthur, New Found Glory, and Hot Action Cop. Everclear, Badly Drawn Boy and The Libertines also have songs in the feature. Note that most songs used were already singles. And, this is the first film to feature the song Laid (Matt Nathanson covering the band James) in both the trailers and the oping sequce. Notably, it is also the only film in the series to not play the song Mrs. Robinson in a sce where Finch has sex with Stifler's mother.
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The song Into the Mystic, played at the d of the film wh Jim and Michelle take to the dance floor at the reception, begins as Van Morrison's recording, but midway through it changes to The Wallflowers' cover version due to licsing reasons.
Closing about 3.5 months later (November 20, 2003), the film had grossed a domestic total of $104, 565, 114 and $126, 884, 089 overseas for a worldwide total of $231, 449, 203, based on a $55 million budget.
Despite being a huge box office success, it is the lowest-grossing film in the series, making roughly $3 million less than American Reunion would in 2012.
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American Wedding received mixed reviews from critics. Rott Tomatoes, a review aggregator, assigns the film a rating of 53%, based on 156 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's critical conssus reads, Raunchier and ev more gross than the first two American Pies, American Wedding ought to please fans of the series.
On Metacritic, the film has a score of 43 out of 100, based on 34 critics, which indicates mixed or average reviews.
Roger Ebert rated it 3/4 stars and wrote that the film is proof of the hypothesis that no gre is beyond redemption.When you purchase through Movies Anywhere, we bring your favorite movies from your connected digital retailers together into one synced collection. Join Now
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Critics Consensus: Raunchier and even more gross than the first two American Pies, American Wedding ought to please fans of the series.
Midwest Film JournalNick Rogers Uproarious from raunchy start to rude finish, American Wedding is the embodiment of what the original American Pie aspired to be but fell short of — a go-for-broke riot that effectively combines touching moments with crass jokes. October 24, 2022FULL REVIEW
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Chicago ReaderJ. R. Jones ...his characters have grown up, but his gags are still trying to graduate from high school...August 2, 2022FULL REVIEW
Good Morning AmericaJoel Siegel American Wedding, the hardly awaited sequel to American Pie I and II, picks up right where the others left off. Which is to say it starts at the bottom and works its way down from there.June 25, 2017FULL REVIEW
7M PicturesKevin Carr It's not as good as the first film, but it's a definite step up from the previous installment.June 22, 2017FULL REVIEW
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ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey The American Pie franchise throws in another kitchen sink of gross-out sight gags by screenwriter Adam Herz (American Pie 1 and 2) in this third, and hopefully final installment, of percolating testosterone commotion.June 21, 2017FULL REVIEW
