American Pie Presents The Naked Mile

A typically worthless straight-to-video American Pie sequel, American Pie Presents The Naked Mile follows Erik Stifler (John White) as he’s offered a weekend pass to do whatever he wants by his virginal girlfriend, Tracy (Jessy Schram) – with the story detailing the debauched shenanigans that ensue as Erik and his friends arrive at a nearby college campus just in time for the title event (in which various coeds run around wearing absolutely no clothes). It’s clear that American Pie Presents The Naked Mile fares best in its relatively low-key opening half hour, as director Joe Nussbaum, working from a script by Erik Lindsay, emphasizes the appealingly sweet relationship between White and Schram’s respective characters – to the extent that one can’t help but wish that the entire film had been focused on their romantic exploits. The film instead, predictably, revolves primarily around the gross-out shenanigans of the central character and his one-dimensional cohorts, with Lindsay continually stressing a series of overlong, padded-out sequences that are neither entertaining nor funny. (There is, for example, a football game that seems to go on forever.) American Pie Presents The Naked Mile‘s latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that’s compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill-conceived set-piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency – which inevitably does confirm the film’s place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy’s success.

*1/2 out of ****