Tonight on Netflix: They think they’re seduction experts, above all they’ll make you laugh!

At East Great Falls High School, some teenagers have never been able to approach a girl, and social pressures as well as a desire to discover drive them to try their luck…in make-it-or-break mode. Welcome to American Pie, a comedy released in 1999 that you can watch or watch on Netflix.

While watching a pornographic film, Jim (Jason Biggs) is surprised by his parents. As if that’s not enough, he spends the evening with his friends at the house of the king of the party, a certain Stifler, but fails to “hook” a single girl. The next day, she and her classmates Kevin, Ozzy, Chris and Fitz vow to lose their virginity before graduation…but only in three weeks!

From this starting point, four guys will definitely try to go out with a girl and sleep with her. Except nothing goes as planned and everyone discovers things about themselves. A schoolboy comedy that is well anchored in its time, the American pie spares no effort to entertain us, sometimes it goes too far, but we forgive it thanks to the facial expressions of the actors and the situations of the Farrel brothers (Mary at Everything). ) will not refuse the price).

A saga of eight films

25 years after its release, we may have forgotten just how successful American Pie was in theaters. Adjusted for inflation, the film grossed $443 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $20.7 million. It’s a huge hit that spawned two sequels in 2001 and 2003: American Pie 2 ($509.1 million) and American Pie: Let’s Marry Them ($396.5 million).

Years later, in 2012, they tried American Pie 4, which again received a respectable score of 320.9, but this time with a budget of 68.2 million.

The saga will also be extended to video with spin-offs from members of the Stifler family. So we meet his brother in American Pie: No Limit!, and three of his cousins ​​in one movie each, American Pie: String Academy, American Pie: Campus en Folie, and American Pie: The Sex Commandments.