Two years after the third and final installment of the American Pie trilogy including the main cast, the franchise moves on under the headline American Pie Present and a new 'Stifler'. American Pie Presents Band Camp brings us 'Matt Stifler' forced to spend his summer at band camp to improve his behavior after sabotaging the band geeks final performances last school year.
Eugene Levy, who played 'Jim's Dad' in the first three installments, is the only one returning here (as he also does in the rest of the series) in a supporting role. Honestly I would have preferred it if they left him behind along the rest of the kids. Also Chris Owens makes a cameo as 'Sherminator'. Tad Hilgenbrink is our new 'Stifler', but lacks the charisma both to lead a movie and to pull off the family name trade. Arielle Kebbel is cast in the female lead as the band geek leader, composer and the female interest of 'Matt'. She's lacks the eye candy power of Shannon Elizabeth, the charisma of Alyson Hannigan or any of the qualities helping Mena Suvari, Tara Reid and Natasha Lyonne to make them worthy the screen time during the trilogy.
The rest of the cast is equally uninteresting, but there's some brightness to be found. The comedy works better here than in the coming movies, and as I should figure out also the previous one. There's also to some degree a charm in the effort of some heartfelt story at the bottom. Still. This franchise should have been buried after the first two movies..... and there's still another three to review. Anyhoo. I've got no problem understanding why this was released directly to video.
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