Ok, so 2003 was a bad year for "guilty pleasure" films but, despite what I've said about both Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle & Bad Boys II, I think I've found the worst movie of the year. (How the hell The Razzies missed this one is beyond me!)
I submit, for your consideration, American Wedding.
Dani & I both thought American Pie 1 & 2 were amusing, fun, had some good performances--the typical things you say about guilty pleasure movies. Well, I was warned about Wedding a couple of weeks ago by a friend here at work, but forgot that until it showed up yesterday from Netflix. Ignoring those warnings, we popped it in the DVD player to check out over dinner.
My god, what an amazing piece of crap! The director, Jesse Dylan, obviously has no concept of timing and how it relates to comedy. Meanwhile the writer, Adam Herz, (who's credited as writing the first film and has multiple writing credits for the second) has obviously lost (or thrown out) any concept of who these characters are and turned them into grotesque caricatures of themselves. The Stifler character is the worst offender here… a Tourette's driven psychopath with none of the qualities that made his annoying character fun in the first films.
This one was so incredibly bad that, after less than a half-hour of the film (this includes fast-forwarding through some of the more painful moments) we simply shut it off and tossed it back in the envelope to Netflix. Do yourself a favor and, no matter what you thought of the first two American Pie films, stay FAR away from this one!
I submit, for your consideration, American Wedding.
Dani & I both thought American Pie 1 & 2 were amusing, fun, had some good performances--the typical things you say about guilty pleasure movies. Well, I was warned about Wedding a couple of weeks ago by a friend here at work, but forgot that until it showed up yesterday from Netflix. Ignoring those warnings, we popped it in the DVD player to check out over dinner.
My god, what an amazing piece of crap! The director, Jesse Dylan, obviously has no concept of timing and how it relates to comedy. Meanwhile the writer, Adam Herz, (who's credited as writing the first film and has multiple writing credits for the second) has obviously lost (or thrown out) any concept of who these characters are and turned them into grotesque caricatures of themselves. The Stifler character is the worst offender here… a Tourette's driven psychopath with none of the qualities that made his annoying character fun in the first films.
This one was so incredibly bad that, after less than a half-hour of the film (this includes fast-forwarding through some of the more painful moments) we simply shut it off and tossed it back in the envelope to Netflix. Do yourself a favor and, no matter what you thought of the first two American Pie films, stay FAR away from this one!
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