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Another Slice of that Rotten Freakin' Pie
Filed under: Comedy », Universal », Remakes and Sequels »
I guess I'm partially to blame, not only because I happened to like all three of the American Pie movies, but also because I wrote pretty positive reviews on the whole trilogy. So yes, blame me that a FIFTH American Pie movie is now in the works, even if I did call the nigh unwatchable American Pie Presents: Band Camp "a seamy and distasteful haze of misogyny, gay-hating and plain old ugliness."Well, screw what I had to say, because Band Camp went on to be a huge seller on DVD. So huge, in fact, that Universal has given a bunch of filmmakers a few stray million to make American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile. Seriously. This franchise has gotten so flimsy that not even Eugene Levy shows up anymore, and we're talking about an actor who collected a paycheck for New York Minute, Dumb & Dumberer, The Man, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, and (yes) Band Camp.
Here's the plot: Stifler's cousin doesn't want to graduate from high school a virgin. Eh? Eh? You can just smell the comedy dripping off the concept. Apparently "streaking" comes up as an important plot point.
Starring a bunch of young people I've never heard of and the generally fantastic character actor Christopher McDonald (dude, why?), American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile will be directed by Joe Nussbaum, who once made a splash by creating George Lucas in Love -- before going on to become a studio robot by directing Sleepover. The screenplay comes from a guy called Erik Lindsay, who has never written a screenplay before, although (to be fair) he was a production assistant on Con Air and had a bit part in the execrable Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice.
Needless to say, American Pie 5 will be a big hit on DVD.
New On DVD - Bloodrayne, Cheaper By The Dozen 2, Transamerica
Filed under: New Releases », DVD Reviews », New on DVD », Home Entertainment », Columns »
• Bloodrayne - Teutonic terror Uwe Boll directs movies no more than gravity directs objects to Earth. His grasp of pithy things like story and character development is nearly non-existent, and his penchant for adapting video games has earned him a reputation as a sort of idiot savant (only without the savant part), kind of like if the kid on the porch in Deliverance only knew how to play the riff that Vanilla Ice nicked from Queen's "Under Pressure". His latest, a shameless Blade ripoff about a half-human, half-vampire avenger (Kristianna Loken), is miscast, barely written and staged with the skill of a spastic with cataracts. Currently residing on the IMDB's Bottom 100 (at #34), it and Boll's rotting body of work have elevated the oeuvre of Ed Wood, whose non-charting Plan 9 From Outer Space was once considered the worst film ever made, to common hack status. At least the inclusion of the free PC version of the Bloodrayne 2 video game will help soothe buyer remorse.
American Pie rules the world
Filed under: Comedy », Home Entertainment », Remakes and Sequels »
We don't really cover DVD sales around here (we much prefer to talk about the box office, and all those monkeys,
hobbits, and wardrobes), but this week's numbers are worth noting. Though there's nothing particularly interesting or
surprising about most of the movies in the top 10 - The
40 Year Old Virgin is still doing well, as is John
Singleton's Four
Brothers, and a couple of new releases also made strong showings. At the top of the heap, however, is a sequel
that never appeared in theaters: yes, that's right, American
Pie: Band Camp outsold all other DVD titles in its debut week. Despite the fact that the only returning main
cast member is Eugene Levy and all the other actors are people you've
never heard of, the movie moved over a million units in just a few days. So, if studios needed a sign that the
direct-to-video market is thriving, I guess this is it.Ok, who bought it? Fess up, and give us some details. Is it cheap and awful? Incredibly brilliant comedy? Boring and sad?
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