Genre: Comedy
Starring: Tad Hilgenbrinck, Arielle Kebbel, Jason Earles, Crystle Lea Lightning, Jun Hee Lee, Eugene Levy
Director: Steve Rash
Rating: M18

SYNOPSIS:

Stifler's younger brother, Matt is sentenced to a summer at the infamous band camp where he creates even more mischief with hidden cameras and hot counsellors. But when he falls for fellow "bandie" Elyse, his efforts to stifle his Stiffmeister ways will surely meet with outrageous results. Jim's dad returns as a quirky counsellor who tries to help Stifler's little brother get back on track.

DISC REVIEW :

American Pie Band Camp continues the sexual adolescence comedy traditions set by the successful American Pie movie and the sequels that followed.

Instead of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott), this latest addition to the series continues with the next generation of teenage mayhem of Steve’s brother, Matt, who was sentenced to band camp by the school counselor for the prank he pulled at a gradation ceremony. With the urban legend passed on by Jim that band camps are filled with sexual activities and wanting to impress Steve, who is running an adult video business, Matt decides to infiltrates the band camp with spy cameras to record some of the hearsay sex activities.

Indeed there is a fair amount of nudity and a couple of scenes that leads to sex. The nudity scene was a surprise in this VCD, even though it was a blink-and-you-will-missed kind; the female nude bodies are still pretty obvious. However censorship is not truly absent here as there are also scenes that felt abruptly cut and was wondering what happen.

Almost all the cast of the American Pie franchise have left and the only two returning cast from the American Pie franchise are Eugene Levy (Jim’s dad) who played the camp counselor and Chris Own (the “Sherminator”) as the school guidance counselor who sends Matt to the band camp. Both of them are wasted in their roles. What made them funny in the previous installment wears thin and tedious in this movie.

Credits have to be given to Tad Hilgenbrinck who did a good job in intimating the crude behavior that Seann William Scott made famous with Steve Stifler in the first three movies. He even bears a striking resemblance to Sean William Scott’s character that folks might even think he is his brother or a younger clone.

But sadly, this movie has nothing new to offer. The storyline is basically reused from the teenage movie formula and American Pie Band Camp lacks any really well executed jokes that the first American Pie is well known for. Still if you want to be fairly entertained and don’t mind the rehash of gags that had been done numerous of times in this franchise (such as drinking bodily fluids and getting certain body parts stuck with foreign objects), American Pie Band Camp is just the right one for you to camp in front of your VCD player and TV.

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Review by Richard Lim Jr