It’s nearing the end of high school and Eric Stifler is
beginning to fear that he’ll be the only Stifler family member to graduate and
still be a virgin. But then his friends coerce him into joining his
campus-legend cousin Dwight to attend the Naked Mile race: a race that consists
of guys and girls running one mile across Beta campus completely nude. To cap
it off, his chaste girlfriend of two years gives him a guilt free pass for the
weekend in the hope that he’ll get his pent up sexual frustration out of his
system. Armed with the pass and his mates Eric decides to live up to the
Stifler family’s legacy. But will sex get in the way of love?
There is
obviously something appealing about these movies. I for one gave up and lost
interest after the third. American Pie
provides the sexual exploration and coming of age soundtrack to my childhood so
of course I watched them when I was younger. They are, for whatever reason,
iconic movies in themselves and the first one paved the way for a whole new
subgenre of teen movies. The Naked Mile,
I’m not sure in what order these all go by the way, sees the stronger moral and
love stories of the original movies pushed into the back corner and the floor
made clear for an hour and a half of sexual schadenfreude, nudity, and other
forms of crudity.
It’s nearing the end of high school and Eric Stifler is
beginning to fear that he’ll be the only Stifler family member to graduate and
still be a virgin. But then his friends coerce him into joining his
campus-legend cousin Dwight to attend the Naked Mile race: a race that consists
of guys and girls running one mile across Beta campus completely nude. To cap
it off, his chaste girlfriend of two years gives him a guilt free pass for the
weekend in the hope that he’ll get his pent up sexual frustration out of his
system. Armed with the pass and his mates Eric decides to live up to the
Stifler family’s legacy. But will sex get in the way of love?
What’s there to
say in terms of story? Um, nothing. My little blurb there just about says it all.
The entire film is just an orgy of nudity, crude language, weird violence, and
sex: diving in for the tasteless and cheap laugh that will appeal to a very
certain type of audience (but I don’t want to generalise). There are only
really remote tie-ins with the original characters, it all seems very haphazard
and rushed just so that there is some form of point behind all the nudity.
I’d
like to point out too the fact that we see exposed breasts and vaginas here but
no penises. Where’s the justice in that? I wasn’t annoyed or feeling jipped in
any way I just find it interesting and maybe a little sexist that no male
genitalia is exposed in this movie. Food for thought people, food for thought.
Starring John White, Jessy Schram, Steve Talley, Christopher McDonald, Ross
Thomas, Jake Segal, Jordan Prentice, Maria Ricossa, Candace Kroslak, and Eugene
Levy, American Pie Presents the Naked
Mile is an entertaining, but mindlessly and tastelessly entertaining movie
filled with nudity, ‘action’, crudeness, romance, and comedy. There’s only a
limited number of ways in which you can interpret these films and quite frankly
I think I was right to give up after the third. Maybe that’s where they should
have ended, finito.
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