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American Pie 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames B. Rogers
Written byAdam Herz
David H. Steinberg
Produced byChris Moore
Warren Zide
StarringJason Biggs
Shannon Elizabeth
Alyson Hannigan
Chris Klein
Natasha Lyonne
Thomas Ian Nicholas
Tara Reid
Seann William Scott
Mena Suvari
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Eugene Levy
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release date
August 10, 2001 (2001-08-10)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million
Box office$287,553,595[1]

American Pie 2 is a 2001 American comedy film that is a sequel to American Pie and is the second film in the American Pie film series. It was written by Adam Herz and David H. Steinberg, and directed by James B. Rogers. The film picks up the story of the four friends from the first film as they reunite during the summer after their first year of college. It holds true to the idea of piling on risqué scenes one after another. It was released in the United States on August 10, 2001, and grossed over $145 million in the US and $142 million overseas on a budget of $30 million. It was followed by yet another sequel, American Wedding.

The film tells the story of four friends Kevin, Jim, Chris ("Oz") and Paul ("Finch") and their attempts to have the greatest summer party ever. Much of the film takes place at a summer beach house in Grant Harbor, Michigan, per Kevin's older brother's suggestion.

Plot

Jim (Jason Biggs), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Oz (Chris Klein) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) return to their hometown in East Great Falls, Michigan for the summer break after their first year of college. They attend a party hosted by Stifler (Sean William Scott), the oversexed college clown, but not only does their new status as college students not give them any success with local girls, but the police also shut down the party. Kevin also has problems when he meets Vicky after their year away from each other; Vicky wants to be friends and Kevin is awkwardly positioned wanting her back but worried he will lose her completely. Despirately he calls his brother for advice, who tells him to move down to the beach and party hard. Together, they set off for a rented house by the beach in Grand Harbor, Michigan, where they intend to spend the whole summer, but Kevin is forced to invite Stifler along as well in order to successfully cover the costs.

After arriving in Grand Harbor, Kevin finds them work as painters and decorators for a house nearby. Stifler is intrigued by the two sexy female owners, who appear to be lesbians, and excitedly breaks into their house while they're away. Jim and Finch follow him, trying to get him out, but they are caught by the owners, who relent on calling the police. But after Stifler identifies his interest in their homosexuality they insist on the boys performing "like for like" homosexual acts on each other in return for being able to watch the girls do the same thing. Oz and Kevin take turns watching up a ladder and listening on the walkie-talkie also in the room. The conversation is accidentally picked up and heard by many other people in the neighborhood, (a reoccuring theme from the webcam expirence in the first film).

After this, the boys plan to throw a huge summer party at the house, bigger than anything they've done before. Many concurrent stories run at the same time in the run-up to the party.

Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), Jim's fling from his senior year, is travelling the United States and is dropping by to attend the beach party. Jim asks for sexual help and advice from band geek Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), his senior-year prom date, who is busy at band camp. While masquerading as a band camp member, the team leaders mistake him for Petey, a mentally-challenged trombone player, and usher him onto the stage in front of an impatient crowd. He proceeds to completely embarrass himself and the band members in front of the whole crowd.

Later at night, Jim decides to turn on a porn movie that Stifler rented, but accidentally uses superglue instead of lubricant to masturbate, permanently gluing his entire hand to his penis and boxer shorts. Exasperated and anxious, he takes out the porn cassette but ends up bonding the cassette to his other hand. Unable to open any doors, he climbs out of a window and stumbles onto the rooftop where he is caught by confused police officers. He is supported at the hospital by his father Noah (Eugene Levy), where he learns the news that he won't be able to have sex for at least a whole week, the same amount of time before the party is due to occur.

However, to Jim's horror, Nadia turns up early, having got bored of sightseeing. Jim's penis is still badly injured, so he pretends to be in a relationship with Michelle to put Nadia off. Jim and Michelle break the relationship off once he is ready to have sex with Nadia, but Michelle is saddened by it, having developed genuine feelings for Jim.

Meanwhile, Oz is lonely and missing his girlfriend Heather (Mena Suvari) who is away in Spain. They start having erotic phone sex to vent some of their frustration, but keep getting interrupted by various people. Finch has become involved in the sexual art of Tantra, and claims that through Tantric sex he can "make an orgasm last for days". He is waiting patiently for Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge), who he slept with in the first film, hoping she will show up and be willing to do it again. He thinks she arrives when a vehicle turns up after Stifler is talking on the phone, but it turns out to be Stifler's little brother Matt (Eli Marienthal), the star of later films. He spends the party night obnoxiously attempting to chat-up and seduce a few girls, but he doesn't sleep with any of them.

Finally, the party begins at the beach house. Kevin sees his ex-girlfriend Vicky but is crushed when he sees her with a new boyfriend and leaves to go to the beach by himself. Oz, Finch and Jim follow him down, where he confides in them that he never got over Vicky and that with the party, he was hoping to relive his senior year prom night, in particular, sleeping with Vicky at the end of it. The others help Kevin realize that it will never happen, and the quartet return to the beach house to party hard. Heather turns up to Oz's delight, and Stifler goes on to have a threesome with the beautiful lesbian neighbours who turn out to be bisexual.

Jim takes a walk along the beach with Nadia, who takes him to a lighthouse on the pier, but Jim calls it off early, revealing that he has fallen for Michelle. Nadia is disappointed that Jim chose a geek over her, but is happy for Jim and allows him to go and find Michelle, performing at band camp. He gatecrashes the performance with a trombone, just like he did before, but with much more confidence and aggression, and romantically makes out with Michelle in front of a heart-warmed crowd.

Meanwhile, the geeky Sherman (Chris Owen) mulls around at the party in a depressed mood, having abandoned his "Sherminator" mantra from the first film due to his abject failure with girls. By chance, he begins talking to the rejected Nadia, who is also depressed, and the two hit it off almost instantly. Nadia encourages Sherman to become the Sherminator once more, displaying a desire/fetish for geeks, and excitedly drags him into an upstairs bedroom where Sherman finally loses his virginity, to the shock of Stifler.

The morning after the party, a Mercedes coupe with darkened windows turns up at the house. Finch approaches to see Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge) who has finally turned up. It doesn't take long before Finch gets into the car and drives off to the lakeside to have passionate sex with her.

Cast & Characters

Soundtrack

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Performed byLength
1."Everytime I Look For You"dASBlink-182 
2."Scumbag" Green Day 
3."Bring You Down" Left Front Tire 
4."Vertigo" American Hi-Fi 
5."Split This Room in Half" Uncle Kracker 
6."Be Like That (American Pie 2 Edit)" 3 Doors Down 
7."Good For a Woman" Alien Ant Farm 
8."Always Getting over You" Angela Ammons 
9."Cheating" Jettingham 
10."Smokescreen" Flying Blind 
11."Phoebe Cates" Fenix*TX 
12."Susan" The Exit 
13."Fat Lip" Sum 41 
14."I Will" Lucia Cifarelli 
15."Halo" Oleander 
16."Here's One For You" (Uncredited; Included on some soundtrack versions.) Witness 

The following songs were included in the movie but were not featured on the soundtrack:

References

  1. ^ "American Pie 2 (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
  • Official website
  • American Pie 2 at IMDb
  • ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› American Pie 2 at AllMovie
  • American Pie 2 at Box Office Mojo
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