American Pie Presents: Band Camp

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American Pie Presents Band Camp

American Pie Presents Band Camp DVD cover
Directed by Steve Rash
Produced by Mike Elliott
Written by Adam Herz (characters)
Brad Riddell
Starring Tad Hilgenbrink
Arielle Kebbel
Jason Earles
Eugene Levy
Chris Owen
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date(s) October 31, 2005 (UK)
December 26, 2005 (USA)
Running time 87 minutes
Language English
Budget ~ US$10,000,000
Preceded by American Wedding
Followed by AP: The Naked Mile (Spinoff)
IMDb profile

American Pie Presents Band Camp is a 2005 direct-to-video spinoff to the American Pie trilogy of films. It was directed by Steve Rash and written by Brad Riddell. The film centers on Matt Stifler (played by Eli Marienthal in the original films), younger brother of Steve Stifler. In this film, Matt (now played by Tad Hilgenbrink) is sent to the infamous band camp, where he meets a young woman and is compelled to change his ways.

It was released on DVD in the U.K. on October 31, 2005, and in the U.S. on December 26, 2005. It sold one million DVDs in its first week in the United States.

The next film in the series, titled American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, began filming in May, 2006, and features Matt and Steve's cousin, Erik Stifler[1].

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[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie focuses on Matt Stifler, the younger brother of Steve Stifler from the previous American Pie films. Matt is eager to enter the family business of making pornographic films, so he can prove to his older brother that he is "up to the standards of the Stifmeister." Stifler and his friends play a prank on the band students during the seniors' graduation ceremony by spraying pepper spray on the mouthpieces of the band's instruments. He also happens to find a long tubular-shaped object with the word "Picardo" written on it, which he assumes to be a vibrator. Matt narrowly escapes getting caught but realizes the pepper spray can discharged on his genitals. The band members begin to play "Pomp and Circumstance," only to become too irritated by the pepper spray to continue. During the commotion, one of the students trips and pulls down the back curtain, revealing Stifler dousing his boxers with water from a fountain. Elyse Houston, the band conductor, stands shocked.

Elyse demands that Stifler be punished for ruining their performance, stating that he always gets away with his pranks because he is the school's star football player. The school's guidance counselor Chuck Sherman ("The Sherminator") decides that a worthwhile punishment would be for Stifler to attend band camp, in the hopes that he would make friends with the "bandies" and not follow in the footsteps of his much-hated brother. While talking to his friends, Matt tells them of how Steve's friend Jim hooked up with a "nympho from band camp" who said that all the band members do at camp is have sex. Matt refers to Elyse as a "nympho" because she was the owner of the object that he assumed to be a vibrator. Matt then gets the idea to secretly videotape the "bandies" in action and sell the video in hopes of joining Steve in the "family business". Matt buys a large and expensive assortment of hidden cameras and video equipment and has it rush-shipped.

As Matt records the various happenings at the camp, he gradually becomes friends with some of the band members from his school and even falls in love with Elyse, who is revealed to have been a friend of Matt's in 8th grade but had a falling out after Matt started hanging around with Steve and his friends and acting like "The Stifmeister". Matt is eventually caught with his movies, and his once-friends want nothing more to do with him.

After talking with Mr. Levenstein, head of the band camp, Matt learns that the people that Steve thought were his friends really did not like him very much. Levenstein believes that people want to like Matt, but he makes it impossible by trying to be like his brother. This is confirmed when Matt later asks Sherman, "Did everyone really hate my brother?" to which he responds with a rather sad nod.

Matt comes to realize that his brother is not as great or cool as he once thought and that following in his footsteps is not a good idea, so he deletes all the videos he recorded at band camp. He even enlists the help of the band to help Elyse get the band scholarship that Stifler accidentally made her lose in the final days of band camp. This plan becomes a success, and Elyse finally forgives Matt, and the two eventually have sex (during the final credits). Elyse reveals what the "Picardo" was- the case of her piccolo flute, which she says uses "to get on with" or something to that effect. Although it was not actually a vibrator, this is obviously a reference to Michelle Flaherty's sexual explorations with her flute as famously mentioned in American Pie.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Soundtrack Listing

  • Andrew W.K. - She Is Beautiful
  • Breaking Benjamin - Forget It
  • Matt Nathanson - Laid
  • Treble Charger - American Psycho
  • Good Charlotte - The Anthem
  • Paul Locke - Paul's Drums
  • D.O.R.K - The Authority Song
  • Courtesy of Associated Productions Music - Dracula Plays
  • Courtesy of Associated Productions Music - Pom Pom
  • Courtesy of Associated Productions Music - Piano Sonata
  • Cage9 - Breaking Me Down
  • Linda Perry - Get The Party Started
  • D.O.R.K - Jaime
  • The Penfifteen Club - Disco MF
  • The City Drive - Defeated
  • Robert W. Parissi - Play That Funky Music White Boy
  • The City Drive - Bring Me Everything
  • Christian B - Baby Got Back
  • Mars Bonfire - Born To Be Wild

[edit] DVD features

The DVD includes the following features:

  • 11 minutes of deleted scenes
  • 4 minutes of outtakes
  • A 5-minute set tour entitled "Band Camp's Dirty Little Secrets"
  • A 17-minute "Band Camp Dirty Diary"
  • "Rover Cam"

The Unrated DVD also included these extra features:

  • A Poolside talk with the Girls of "Band Camp"
  • Unrated Love Lessons with Ginger Lynn

[edit] Trivia

  • The oboe with which Matt engages himself is not an actual oboe but an English horn (an instrument in the oboe family).
  • Matt reads the poster about proper embouchure formation (where the poster features an actual oboe), but he does not use proper embouchure formation when he wraps his lips around the horn. It should not have been possible for him to make sound with the horn in the scene.
  • Tad Hilgenbrink (Matt) really bared it all in the scene where he undresses in front of the girls while playing the trivia game. He didn't inform the girls in advance, who were expecting him to keep his privates covered somehow, so their reaction is quite genuine.
  • The robot created by Ernie in the story was in real life created by a team of three Chinese engineers (according to the end credits).

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://in.news.yahoo.com/060427/139/63u3p.html - "Coming up, American Pie 5." Yahoo! India News
American Pie series
v • d • e
Main Series:

American Pie | American Pie 2 | American Wedding
Spin Offs:

Band Camp | The Naked Mile
Main characters:

Jim Levenstein | Chris Ostreicher | Paul Finch | Kevin Myers | Steve Stifler
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