American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

i am a huge fan of the American pie series, but these spin off's have been terrible apart from 'the naked mile' and 'beta house' which was funny, but not American pie. but this one is the worst because it tries to hard to mimic the original movies, i mean they get one of the worst actors I've ever seen, to do the worst Sean William Scott impression I've ever seen, for some reason Eugene levy is here as Jim's dad doing his awkward advice, and Sherman pops up as a school counciler, who sends stifler's little brother to band camp. cue then a load of gross out gags that are directly lifted from previous movies, i mean how cheap. the script is so terrible, the first half is very mean spirited, and then the second half cheesily tries to be sweet and be like the American pie movies, but it all fails, the whole thing wreaks of cash in from the very beginning, and nudity a staple of the series is non existent, so most fans will be disappointed just with that. now look i didn't go into this movie wanting to bash it, and i would of loved to be able to have wrote a good review, of a solid spin off, but i never, i got a cheap cash in, there are a few references to the old Gan here, as Jim's dad says Jim and Michelle have now had a baby, but it feels forced, i mean Eugene levy was the funniest thing about the American pie movies, but his preseance here is just why, i mean you can see that they did try hard with his scenes, but he is just painfully mimicking, the scenes from the other movies, but its not his son this time around, its stifler's little brother, so it just isn't funny, i did have a couple of chuckles mostly from Eugene levy and Chris Owen as Jim's dad and Sherman, but apart from the novelty of seeing these two characters again, there is nothing to recommend this movie for

The original American Pie pitched itself somewhere between Animal House and There's Something About Mary: a kind of warm-hearted, gross-out comedy about wayward, sex-obsessed teens. This travesty of a third sequel manages to turn the concept completely on its head by making a comedy FOR sex-obsessed teens, and ones who don't understand subtlety, irony or indeed humour. Where the original relied on a cast of average-looking males who generally stayed on the right side of lovable, this one focuses on the brother of that first film's deliberately irritating Stiffler. And this Stiffler, goes the brain-addled writers' pitch for Band Camp, is one whose antics we are supposed to rejoice at. What results is depressingly inane, and actually manages the feat of being more desperate and pathetic than Porky's, which the first film was (in the main) sending up. It is devoid of any laughs at all, and the worst thing is that Eugene Levy is in it. He looks, as he should, thoroughly embarrassed in every scene.

I've have just finished watching this movie and as an American Pie fan, this is a fair addition to the series. It is not quite as good as the first three in the series but I was not expecting it to be. The film is based around Matt Stifler (Steve Stifler's younger brother) so if you liked the Stifler character from the other films then this is definitely worth a watch.Jim's dad is in this film quite often and Sherman makes a cameo appearance too. The humour in the film feels slightly more immature than the first three with the gags/key scenes being less visual and many of the characters in the film are wasted; they are given too little to do.Whereas the first three films are about coming of age, this has a lesser storyline and feels like the story has been build around the gags.If you have a spare 90 mins and are a fan of fairly gross comedy, I would recommend this as a time-filler.

Sequels are funny thing in the business, however one can tell when a movie franchise got past it's prime and it's now featured in direct-to-video sequels. I normally don't dwell into this world, but I decided to give it a shot. American Pie: Band Camp is a weak attempt at comedy, it only hurts itself by having some of the original characters from the earlier movies. Stiffler's younger brothers gets sent to band camp after messing up a rehearsal, but tries to make smutty hidden camera videos from the band camp members. I barely laughed at the film, was only grossed out by a few scenes(which have become mandatory in teen comedies), but one does wonder how weak this looks compared to Superbad which honestly relies more on dialog to get it's point across. Also Stiffler's brother's cursing doesn't work anymore, Sean William Scott(the true hero of American Wedding) already squeeze the last of the American Pie funny bone juice out of this franchise. The actors make it clear that this is a direct-to-video release and I'm surprised Eugene Levy and Timothy Stack would even bother to show up on a movie, did Levy appear just tell us that this is an American Pie movie? Never mind, if you like teen comedies, don't bother. It's not worth the rental.