Okay, so I apologise in advance. I’m not the greatest writer with things like this and it’s probably going to be very train of thought but here goes…
I grew up in the 2000s and lived through the initial buzz and phenomena of the American Pie movies. I wasn’t old enough to actually go see them, but me and my brother would sneakily watch them whenever we could. They had a type of mythos around them for people of my age and revitalised the raunchy comedy genre. We even had films that weren’t the same genre marketing themselves as if they were. Some movies even outright stole the logo (Can’t Hardly Wait which came out first, but used the exact same logo as AP for subsequent releases).
After the initial three movies that had somewhat diminishing returns, the franchise divulged into yearly straight to dvd releases tethered only by the Stifler name and Eugene Levys wonderful acting. Despite some of these not being that good, they were still kind of big in the sense that the brand never died out. Then ‘American Reunion’ came out. It was a decent box office success and overall a pretty good film, but for whatever reason we never got a sequel even though one was announced and the cast had even signed onto it.
In the years following that one (it’s been over a decade 💀), it has been pretty much crickets. A year or two ago we got a Netflix spin off thing that made ZERO noise whatsoever and I feel like even the original movies have faded into obscurity and have become a forgotten relic of their time.
Where do you think the franchise stands in this current day? Do you think a reboot/remake could happen? Would it even work in this day and age? I recently rewatched and there are a few of them that somewhat stand the test of time (mainly the original, the sequel, reunion and even band camp kind of).