AMERICAN REUNION (2012)

I love the first two AMERICAN PIE films, but after the disappointing Part 3 and the multiple spin-offs (that I've never even seen) I was both worried and excited when they announced this fourth film. But I'm glad to announce that my worrying was for nothing because AMERICAN REUNION is awesome! After the first film I think it might be the funniest of the series.

I don't want to give too much away, since it's so much fun catching up with the characters, but the East Great Falls High School Class of 1999 reunion is coming up so the gang decides to get together a few days early to do some hanging out and partying. That's all I'm going to tell you because I thought this film was a blast. It would have been so easy, now that the characters are adults, to let a bunch of depressing shit into the story, but they did an great job of weeding that junk out and leaving us with the kind of heartfelt raunchy sex friendship topless romance bromance stuff that made us fall in love with the AMERICAN PIE gang to begin with.

My only complaint is Nadia didn't have a big enough role. Also, nobody yelled "Suck me, beautiful!" Other than that I love the movie and I can't wait until the next installment! I'm so jonesed up for more AMERICAN PIE I might even go watch those spin-offs. Satan help me.

Part 1 - American Pie (1999)
Part 2 - American Pie 2 (2001)
Part 3 - American Wedding (2003)

CLEOPATRA (1934)

I'm sure Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 epic CLEOPATRA is about as historically accurate as STARSHIP TROOPERS, but I enjoyed it. It opens with Cleopatra tied up and taken out into the desert where she's dumped off and told that if she returns she will be killed. That's not stopping her though, because she knows that Caesar is coming, so she uses all her charms to seduce him. Naturally this doesn't sit pretty with Caesar's wife back home so all kinds of stuff pops off.

Fans of older cinema will enjoy the spectacle of it all (the costumes, the crowd scenes, the sets, Claudette Colbert vamping it up), but without any nudity, excessive violence or CG effects I think modern audiences would probably find it to be a bore.

If you need me I'll be in my room watching "Rome".

Henry Wilcoxon was in the movie business for over 50 years! He even showed up in CADDYSHACK!!!