"American Pie: Book of Love"

Bug Hall
Kevin M. Norton
Brandon Hardesty
BEth Behrs
Melanie Pampalia
Jennifer Holland
John Patrick Jordan
Louisa Lytton
Sherman Hemsley
Curtis Armstrong






R           93min           2009



When Rob (Bug Hall), Nathan (Kevin M. Horton), and Lube (Brandon Hardesty) discover the sex bible left behind by their being predecessor at East Great Falls High Schools the libraries quest for landing babies continues as the desperate virgins set out to score the big homerun. But with the well-used and hallowed manual worn and missing some pertinent information, the boy's mission to lose their virginity is one hilarious mishap after another.

What started as one of the funniest American Pies in the series after an hour devolved into one the most bland and unoriginal of the series. “American Pie presents Book of Love” turns into a cliched male comedy. Another redeeming quality was that Alfalfa is the lead in this film.

Book of Love is started out amazing with some original ideas, like Lube and his overactive imagination or the mishap adventure from the incomplete book. Each were unique and brought funniest to this adventure. They gave a new twist to an old horse that's almost beat to death.

Then after a hour Book of Love just feel apart. Everything that made the first hour funny is replaced with the cliched male comedy. What puts it over the top is the sodomy of a male character. Even if the animal was computer generated. That should have been the first clue that they were pushing the envelope too far.

“American Pie presents Book of Love” has so much going for it and Alfalfa as the lead is one of them. Channel surfing I saw “The Little Rascals” on ABC Family and I wondered what happen to those kids, then I watched this film and at first I did place his face. Then I remembered his name and it clicked. Alfalfa is ALL GROWN UP. Still breaking all the rules of the He-Man Woman Haters Club.

I give “American Pie: Book of Love” 3 out of 5.