Since teen-sex comedies are the topic of choice this week, I thought I would focus on the first American Pie. The movie that ruined apple pies for me forever, coined the term MILF, and compares on an infamous level with Porky’s shower scene (with peeping-tom teenage boys spying on a girls’ locker room)
, this film makes you cringe with jaw-dropping embarrassing moments (most of which could have been avoided by simply locking a door). The last scenes of the movie contained four separate and very interesting sex scenes in it’s climax, of the four main guys trying desperately to lose their virginity at the Armageddon of high-school sex opportunities, prom.
The first couple that I find the most interesting is Vicky and Kevin. Vicky, a “normal” teenage girl with romantic notions of the perfect time and place to have sex for the first time, is told by her sexually advanced friend that sex isn’t a rocket launch, and she should just do it already.
She wants to hear Kevin tell her he loves her, and convincers herself by the counter argument that she would probably just go to college and do it with some random guy in a dorm room. Kevin doesn’t know if he loves her, and tells his friends five minutes before prom party that he’s scared. Yet, they end up going through with it. It is awkward to watch because… it’s just plain awkward. I mean, starting sex off with “how should we do it?” isn’t exactly hot. Kevin tells her what she wants to hear (those three little words) and after an uncomfortable and clumsy passion-less night, they BREAK UP IN THE MORNING. Like they couldn’t have realized that they wouldn’t work after high school BEFORE they had sex. Their happy-break-up-present was a terrible first time...congratulations. Geez, even Finch and Stifler’s mom had more exciting sex (which made pool tables even hotter)
Next, Heather (choir girl) turned Oz (rugby jock) into Mr. Sensitive, only to fall in love and spend the night in an actual beautiful “perfect” setting, because they didn’t try so hard to make it “perfect”. And, after his terrible anti-Casa Nova line, “Suck Me, Beautiful” I never would have thought he could just spend a night with a girl.
This brings us to Jim. After he raped a pastry and came too times too soon with Nadia, he ends up at prom with Michelle, ultimate band geek who turns out to get freaky with him in a children’s bedroom (how ironic). Instead of Vicky’s “tell me you love me,” Michelle just wants Jim to say her name, Bitch!
Through sex scenes, this film actually teaches teenagers a few important lessons in sex. First off, the film very explicitly promotes the use of condoms. Also, “perfect moments” don’t exist when they try to be planned. On top of that, a passion-filled night can happen with someone you don’t expect, and falling in love is possible without sex. All in all, the movie’s raunchy nature gives teens what they want by making them feel like their doing something wrong. What more could you want in a teen-sex comedy?
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