American Reunion Review

By Charles, Pittsburgh's CW Green Team. 

 Have you ever been forced to do something you didn't want to? It's cliché but it's usually the holidays that are like that for most of us. I experienced this feeling just the other night when I saw American Reunion. I'm still trying to figure out what made me want to see it? Was it the nostalgia? Curiosity? The need for a (forced) laugh?

The fourth installment of a franchise that should've stopped after the first never develops into anything more then just a bunch of rehashed jokes. If you've seen one of the movies you know the awkward jokes about sex or putting the stars in overly zany unbelievable situations. The movie tries to ride the nostalgic train the whole time with characters we vaguely know.

I would describe the plot but there really isn't one. I'm being serious there is no quest or goal at all. The only thing that is concrete is they're supposed to go to their 13th high-school reunion. Besides that the movie consists of Steve Stiffler calling everyone an obscenity and everyone taking it.

Essentially its a lag-fest that never seems to stop. If you actually want to laugh, check out a viral video of James Franco with cornrows lip-syncing a Selena Gomez song for a minute and a half. It's free and won't take almost two hours of your life that you can't have back.

I give American Reunion 1/10 because it never ever tries in any way and was an easy paycheck for the cast.