American Wedding 2003

Critics score:
54 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: American Wedding celebrates limited comic imagination with the predictable outcomes of most dead-on-arrival WB sitcoms. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: American Wedding has the decided taste of day-old bakery -- although, of course, that could just be some errant body fluid. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: [An] uneven but undeniably sweet movie. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [J]ust as horny, tacky and funny as the first two. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The whole thing is one big fat geek wedding fiasco. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The makers of Wedding have so effectively managed to make offensiveness seem tame that this could be subversion financed by the religious right. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Sadly, when there's not a gag to show off, first-time Pie series director Jesse Dylan ... allows his movie to go as flat as a pie crust. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The grossest, least funny installment in the American Pie series. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: This is the funniest of the three movies. The new characters and the tighter focus are just what the series needed. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: If you like the formula -- Hallmark card sentiments contracted out to hardcore youth offenders -- American Wedding may be the best of the trio. Read more

Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly: A groin-numbing onslaught of sexual-humiliation and emission-ingestion gags. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The makers of American Wedding know what pleases its target audience -- and the movie delivers the goods, even if some are recycled. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The movie is enormously, convulsively funny, and it never lets up -- it has no shame. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: [Dylan's] bare-bones approach may trip up along the way, but it keeps the funny stuff in the foreground. Read more

Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Even suckers for the first two American Pie courses will find this third helping indigestible. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: An aimless charade of doggy poo, latex breasts and really, really bad language. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If you think you're going to like American Wedding, you probably will. If you don't, you probably won't. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: If there was ever a case of Hollywood's over-stroking a formula to squeeze every last drop out of it, American Wedding is it. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The strain and desperation are apparent from the first scene. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The fastest, funniest, wildest entry in the series. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: A better film than anyone should normally expect in this genre. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: At this wedding, you can have your cake and barf it, too. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: Dylan delivers a comedy just on the high side of exactly what's expected. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Tastier than the previous two. Read more

David Ng, Village Voice: The formula has long since hardened into a flaky mess. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If you do not bring pride, good taste or sense to this third American Pie installment, you'll have a good time. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Read more