This 90s Teen Comedy Was So Dirty, It Would Never Be Made Today
There are movies that received rave reviews twenty years ago, but today would be cancelled even before their release.
Even if you haven't seen American Pie, you've most likely heard about it. In 1999, the first installment caused a sensation and earned $102 million at the box office.
Two years later, the second movie surpassed the success of the first, earning $145 million.
American Pie is certainly an unprecedented phenomenon not only for Hollywood, but for the entire cinema. No director has dared to show the sex life of American teenagers and everything connected with it so openly.
All three pieces of the Pie received a strict R rating.
The movie was opposed by dozens of organizations, both religious and designed to protect the rights of adolescents.
Mass demonstrations against the movie's distribution took place in several states. However, nothing could stop the trilogy from capturing the hearts of millions of teenagers.
According to the plot of the first movie, a group of teenagers, led by the modest, quiet Jim, is trying to lose their virginity, and ready to do it in every possible way.
In the second movie, the company intends to "consolidate" its success by going to the country house. In the third movie Jim plans to get engaged to his sweetheart Michelle and behave like a family man.
The trilogy has several parallel storylines and is full of vulgar and funny intimate scenes.
Producer Adam Herz noted that any teenager who has ever lived in a college dorm will encounter many familiar scenes, and the comedy's wild popularity can be explained by the fact that teenagers were playing themselves.
However, what was widely accepted twenty years ago is unlikely to receive the same approval today. The female characters in the movie mostly serve as tools and prizes for the male protagonists.
They're just ticks on the men's list of accomplishments.
Sex between a teenager and an adult woman in the comedy finale also does not really fit into modern cultural and social realities.
This is proven by the recently released trailer for a new comedy No Hard Feelings starring Jennifer Lawrence, in which her character has to seduce a nineteen-year-old teenager.
And although the main character has already reached the age of consent, which is emphasized, such a plot caused heated discussions and discontent on social media.