American Pie: Girls Rules Blu Ray Review (Universal)

American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules is a 2020 sex comedy film produced and directed by Mike Elliott (The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power, Blue Crush 2, and Beethoven’s Big Break). Elliott was the second unit director on American Pie Presents: The Book of Love and he produced American Pie Presents: Band Camp. It’s a spin off of the American Pie series. It was written by Blayne Weaver (Manic, Cut to the Chase, Honey 2, and The Prince & Me franchise) & David H. Steinberg (American Pie 2, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Kindergarten Cop 2, and Grand-Daddy Day Care). It was produced by Joseph P. Genier (War, Undercover Brother 2, How High 2, Automation, Teen Wolf, and American Pie Presents: Band Camp). It’s the first American Pie film that doesn’t feature the Noah Levenstein character. It went direct to video!!!!Now that it’s their senior year, four best friends decide to make the best of out their time together. Annie Watson (played by: Madison Pettis from Five Points, The Game Plan, The Fosters, and Seven Pounds), Kayla (played by: Piper Curda from The Wretched, School Spirits, and Rule the Mix), Michelle (played by: Natasha Behnam from Bloody Hands, Animal Kingdom, and One-Night) and Stephanie Stifler (played by: Lizze Broadway from Here and Now, A Killer Walks Amongst Us, Instakiller, and The Lost Boys) band together to harness their girl power to get what they want. Each one of them is single at the same time and they want to have a little fun with it. They put together a competition between each other to see who can hook up with new kid Grant (played by: Darren Barnet from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Turnt, Never Have I Ever, and Instakiller) first. Which one will win it all when it comes to these girl rules? Is it worth risking their long friendship????Director Mike Elliott is no stranger to doing direct to video sequels for bigger franchises and he tries his best to make this one entertaining. I am a big fan of the first few American Pie movies and I even thought a few of the spin offs were decent but the last few films from this franchise have went downhill especially this one. It’s not a good sign when even Eugene Levy doesn’t show up here because he’s been in every American Pie feature so far. I understand that after 8 other movies, they wanted to try something different here but it didn’t work at all in this direct to video spin off. They tried to do the female side for American Pie and they even had a female Stifler as one of the leads. I will say that the main girls had decent chemistry together. I thought Madison Pettis and Lizze Broadway were actually solid in this. Girls Rules does provide some decent eye candy with it’s female leads but the acting for the most part is pretty bad here. That’s nothing new for these type of features but the script was awful so it didn’t really do any favors to the struggling cast when it came to performances. They tried too hard to make most of the guys look like douche bags and almost all of those roles were nothing special here.The jokes fell flat for the most part with a few good moments but lots of them were cringe worthy. Honestly, the best thing about Girls Rules was the supporting cast which included a few familiar faces like Danny Trejo (Heat), Clint Howard (Ice Cream Man), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Ed Quinn (Eureka), and Sara Rue (Pearl Harbor). Girls Rules feels more like a rip off than an actual official movie of the American Pie series. It’s really tame for being a sex comedy. I hope the next one is better if they keep making these. It’s not the worst film that I’ve seen this year but it’s definitely one you should watch first before you buy it. Luckily, it’s on Netflix right now. The (1.78:1) transfer here is definitely an upgrade from the original DVD release on this blu ray. It has two audio options which includes English: Dolby Digital 5.1 and Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 on here. These films sound great when it comes to the music and soundtrack, this one is no different. All of the dialogue is crystal clear. It has English SDH, Japanese, Spanish, and Thai subtitles. There’s no special features on this home video release. If you are a fan of the American Pie franchise/series, it’s worth checking out at least once but don’t have high hopes. It’s available everyone right now especially on MovieZyng.com!!!!