![]() The Hangover is more about drunken adventure than sexual escapades. Superbad relies on embarrassment rather than raunch. The box office successors to American Pie have leaned in other directions. ![]() Since then, we've turned away from the sex comedy. The late '90s and early aughts saw a resurgence of raunchy teen fare that has endured a bit better and offered a slight improvement in their depiction of women. These films tend to read today as only kind of funny and very sexist. The raunchy sex comedy saw its heyday in the '80s with films like Meatballs, Porkys, and Revenge of the Nerds. Though these movies defined the comedic sensibilities of a generation, they don't age well. Not only is American Pie a relic of a bygone era in terms of financing, but it is also of a genre that may be lost to time. In this era of mammoth blockbusters complimented by the rare festival circuit darling, the mid-budget studio film that makes good is largely a thing of the past. Released in 1999, American Pie was made for a mere $11 million and returned an international gross of almost a quarter billion dollars. ![]() The four American Pie films took in a combined gross of roughly a billion dollars, and spawned a series of four direct-to-video atrocities that further padded the franchise's bottom line. For better or worse, we probably won't see a phenomenon like American Pie again. ![]()
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