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"...Herz taps into magic by flipping the formula on its head..." 09/01/2003 p.120Hollywood Reporter
"...As is fitting for the genre, production values are bright and zippy..." 07/29/2003 p.23 Sight and Sound
"...AMERICAN WEDDING is a success..." 10/01/2003 p.44 Chicago Sun-Times
"[F]unny and, you know what? Sweet." 01/02/2004 p.11 Total Film
"Comedy god Eugene Levy is on hand as Jim's kindly dad, while January Jones makes a fetching new addition..." 02/01/2004 p.107 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
The summer of bad sequels finally has an entry that can boast being noticeably better than its immediate predecessor: American Wedding. The third entry into the American Pie series, this movie is a vast improvement over the tired and uninspired American Pie 2, although it fails to make it to the lofty perch occupied by the first film. The recipe, which probably doesn't need additional refining, brings back some of the sweetness of the original American Pie, and combines it with the expected ingredients of excessive raunchiness and vulgarity. Top it off with one of the most gut-churningly disgusting moments in any recent comedy, and you have American Wedding - James Berardinelli
San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
American Wedding finds the American Pie franchise a full two films removed from its last breath of inspiration and flailing, blue-in-the-face, in the direction of anything that might reel in a laugh. Screenwriter Adam Herz goes back to his original American Pie script to find jokes, instead of finding them in truthful observation or an amused take on life. - Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
Despite these missing elements, perhaps sacrificed for a more concentrated approach, fans of American Pie are required by those unwritten laws governing trilogies to go see American Wedding if for no other reason than to bid adieu to a popular set of movies that reminded you what it's like to be a teenager. Awkward and mythic in its humor, the American Pie movies have accomplished a unique position in Hollywood stature that of a successful comedic trilogy. - Millicent Mayfield
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
May the great gods of cinema forgive me, but I am becoming fond of the American Pie characters. Like regulars in a beloved sitcom, I forgive them anything as long as they remain true to their natures. Having survived high school and college in the first two American Pie movies, here they are in American Wedding, still ankle-deep in precious bodily fluids and doggy do, and although the movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene, it has a sweetness that is impossible to discount, and it is often very funny. - Roger Ebert
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