In this edition, Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs) asks Michelle Flaherty (Alysson Hannigan) to marry him. The big moment is to happen in a very nice restaurant. Jim hints that he wants to ask Michelle a very important question, and his hinting about is misinterpreted by Michelle, who crawls under the table to do what she thinks Jim wants. In the mean time, Jim's dad, played by SCTV alumni Joe Levy, shows up and sits in Michelle's chair, unaware that she is under the table. Michelle goes unnoticed until Jim's dad mentions the wedding proposal, which causes Michelle to bump the underside of the table. Jim jumps up, his pants are down, and it's embarrassment and pandemonium. As funny as this scene is, it gets better, or worse, depending on how you look at it, from there.

The movie ends up being a series of gags from beginning to end, that are both funny and often disgusting. Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) is often involved in many of these scenes. In one scene Steve and Jim are in the library with a dog when an accident with a cake happens. When Jim's dad opens the library door to bring in Michelle's parents, Steve and Jim appear to be in a very bizarre position with respect to the dog. You'll have to see this one to understand it or believe it.

There are another pair of scenes that are related involving a gay bar, a bachelor party, with Stifler involved, of course, and Michelle's parents. While not every moment of these scenes are funny, they are in several places, and I found myself laughing all the way through the scene where Jim is supposed to be having dinner at home with Michelle's parents.

Stifler manages to get himself invited to the wedding, and even manages to convince Michelle's mother to let him carry the wedding ring. Unfortunately Stifler manages to lose the ring, which a small dog then eats. How Stifler gets the ring back is simultaneously funny and gross.

While Stifler acts like the jerk he is for much of the movie, near the end we see Stifler make a mistake, and then pull out the stops to correct his error. For just a moment we get to see Stifler actually act like a human, and the movie turns out all right.

I watched many of the extra features on the DVD. The two features I thought were the best were the deleted scenes and the outtakes. Watch them after seeing the movie.

I gave this movie three stars even though it was a laugh-fest all the way through. Much of the humor is gross and disgusting, and the situations used to get the laughs are totally unrealistic and bizarre (well, none of these have ever happened to anyone I know). If you enjoyed the first two "American Pie" movies, you'll enjoy this one as well. Definitely not a family movie and many adults will find portions of the movie a bit too bizarre to be enjoyable. However, for those who like Mad Magazine and can handle gross jokes, this movie is a blast.

P.S.: My parents did also think that it is very funny.

I am not surprised that they did not call this movie American Pie 3, because it does not seem like an "American Pie". The jokes fall flat, everything seems stale. Many key characters that were intregal parts of the first two movies are not here this time- Oz and Heather, Nadia, Vicky, Jessica and Sherman-ator are conspicuously absent. And they are missed! It is like having a family reunion with half the family missing and no explanation. The big party scene- the pivitol point of both Pie movies- absent in this one, and it is not as if there is not opportunity for it. The first two movies revolved around the friendship of the four guys- Oz, Finch, Jim and Kevin. But this time, it is left to Stifler to carry most of the movie. This is not a good thing. Stifler's character is great at peppering humor into the plot, not being the plot point. Kevin has hardly any lines or screen time. Jim's sexual bumblings are less shocking and funny- less buildup and less punch-line. Finch- instead of dry wit is just dry mostly. Michelle- "one time at bandcamp..."- is more serious and through most of the movie she is a person with substance and depth,instead of a vapid prop, when at the end it sinks and she is once again a blank staring vapid prop- without the bandcamp line or the funny half drugged voice she delivers it in. There are some inexplicable plot lines too- Jim has never met Michelle's parents or sister. How is that possible after three years of serious dating, when they went to prom together and grew up in the same town. He never once went to her house? It seems they were trying to throw in a "Meet the Parents" sub-plot, but it was developed in a half-hearted, frenzied way that is more confusing than funny.

I gave it one star because I wanted to like this movie and just couldn't. It seems they couldn't decide if it was an American Pie sequal or a wedding comedy- and in the end it didn't feel like either. Poorly put together, poorly played out, poor lines, poor jokes and poor plot.