Unnecessary Sequels: American Pie: Band Camp
You gotta love Netflix for many reasons, but one of the best ones is that you can rent movies you would never consider paying for, watching them in a day and return them. No harm, no foul. Of course, that still means you end up wasting time watching them and in the case of today's film, American Pie: Band Camp, you still end up feeling gipped.
Now, seeing as it was a direct to video film, the warning lights went off pretty quickly, but I succumbed to my innate "bad movie enjoyment" urges and figured I'd give it a try. Bad idea.
The plot,thin as it is, revolves around Matt Stiffler, the younger brother of Sean William Scott's character in the real American Pie films. Now, it's not the real brother from the films, but a new actor who seems to be just lifting Scott's performance and dumbing it down a bit. After playing a prank on the school band, he is forced by newly appointed guidance counsellor Chuck Sherman aka the Shermanator to attend Band Camp as his punishment. Now, the logic falls flat right here: first, how is sending a known troublemaker to a summer camp punishment to him? And further, doesn't it punish the band whom he tormented?
Then there's the fact that this movie is set in 2005. Assuming Sherman graduated with Jim, Stiffler et al in 1999, that would mean he graduated college in 2003 and would have to have somehow gotten his counselling degree in a year and be immediately be hired by the school district in Michigan. Now, seeing as it was a middle-upper class area, why would they hire such an inexperienced person? Oh yeah, because he's one of two people in the film with an actual connection to the other films.
The other person is Euguene Levy, who ends up at band camp as their de-facto head counsellor/advisor. How you ask? Well, it was supposed to be Alyson Hannigan's character, but seeing as she is pregnant (didn't want to be in the movie), they give it to Levy by default. More outstanding logic. Levy's appearance just makes me sad and a bit angry, as they would've likely trashed the whole concept without someone of his stature (or at least importance to the series) attached to the project.
You can probably figure out the rest of the story: mini-Stiffler acts like an ass, learns a lesson, becomes a better person, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Even as a netflix rental, this one isn't worth the money. Stay away.
Now, seeing as it was a direct to video film, the warning lights went off pretty quickly, but I succumbed to my innate "bad movie enjoyment" urges and figured I'd give it a try. Bad idea.
The plot,thin as it is, revolves around Matt Stiffler, the younger brother of Sean William Scott's character in the real American Pie films. Now, it's not the real brother from the films, but a new actor who seems to be just lifting Scott's performance and dumbing it down a bit. After playing a prank on the school band, he is forced by newly appointed guidance counsellor Chuck Sherman aka the Shermanator to attend Band Camp as his punishment. Now, the logic falls flat right here: first, how is sending a known troublemaker to a summer camp punishment to him? And further, doesn't it punish the band whom he tormented?
Then there's the fact that this movie is set in 2005. Assuming Sherman graduated with Jim, Stiffler et al in 1999, that would mean he graduated college in 2003 and would have to have somehow gotten his counselling degree in a year and be immediately be hired by the school district in Michigan. Now, seeing as it was a middle-upper class area, why would they hire such an inexperienced person? Oh yeah, because he's one of two people in the film with an actual connection to the other films.
The other person is Euguene Levy, who ends up at band camp as their de-facto head counsellor/advisor. How you ask? Well, it was supposed to be Alyson Hannigan's character, but seeing as she is pregnant (didn't want to be in the movie), they give it to Levy by default. More outstanding logic. Levy's appearance just makes me sad and a bit angry, as they would've likely trashed the whole concept without someone of his stature (or at least importance to the series) attached to the project.
You can probably figure out the rest of the story: mini-Stiffler acts like an ass, learns a lesson, becomes a better person, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Even as a netflix rental, this one isn't worth the money. Stay away.
posted by Mike at 10:16 AM
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