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	American Wedding
	Jesse Dylan Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, January Jones 2003		There was every reason to suspect "American Pie" would be a latter-day "Porky's": a stupid, vulgar sex comedy with teen "heroes" for an adolescent audience. Shock of shocks, "A.P." was as funny and kind-hearted as it was crude and ribald. By comparison, "American Pie 2," the sequel, was not so tasty a morsel. Along comes "American Wedding," the third chapter in what's become a trilogy about randy high-school buddies Jim (Jason Biggs), Stifler (Seann William Scott), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas). They schemed to lose their virginity in the first "Pie" and upped the sexual ante on summer vacation in "Pie 2." In "Wedding," they've graduated from college, and the first of them is facing marriage. Pie-fornicating nice-guy Jim proposes to his honey, nympho-scamp-from-band-camp Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), and she accepts. Preparations for the ceremony, such as a bachelor party organized by sleazy Stifler, are given a slapstick, erotic bent, but there's sweetness here, too. Series screenwriter Adam Herz is back with a better script than the one for "Pie 2." The comic gifts of Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Fred Willard as father of the bride seal the deal. It's a "Wedding" worth attending.