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American Pie Presents: The Book of Love

By Joly Herman, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

Crude, charmless, and very disrespectful of women. Ugh.

Movie NR 2009 93 minutes
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Community Reviews

age 18+

Based on 2 parent reviews

age 18+

vile and offensive

I watched the trailer and right then I knew it wasn't for anybody no matter how much they say it is. While let's just get to it shall we rob (the protaganist) is talking to this girl. rob gets distracted and looks at her cleavage while not just hat but then he looks down her cleavage. I don't have a problem with raunchy movies but I do with raunchy films such as this in it.

This title has:

Too much sex
age 17+

Not For Kids if you know what I really mean.

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love Review. Look at the Title with the word Love. However this movie is NOT a love story. So I have this to say. Messages - Graded F - This is not good at all. Role Models - Graded F Again - Again not even that's good. That's really bad. S & V put together because is Degrading Women and that's a bad thing and both get a D Grade - F Grade. What an Epic Fail Film with drug and drinking. This film should be Rated NC-17 for Video Only and never allowed to advertise it back in 2009.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Too much consumerism
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (2):
Kids say (8):

This movie does a dangerous thing: it tries to add the word "respect" to an irreparable trail of damage. After the boys have said and done many lewd things, the adult men in the movie tell them to be honest with women, as they talk about various anal sex techniques, or favorite foods with which to masturbate. Is this funny? No, it's not really funny, it's twisted. Watching Rob's mom view a video of her son vomiting on a girl he is about to have sex with is disturbing enough. The fact that the mom doesn't think to talk about consequences is mind-blowing. Three words: not for kids.

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