American Pie (1999)

Most people think so. 84% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 60%, but audiences disagreed.

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom. Wikipedia ↗

American Pie is a 1999 American teen sex comedy directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. The film follows four high school friends — Jim, Kevin, Oz, and Finch, played by Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, and Eddie Kaye Thomas — who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom night. Their increasingly desperate and humiliating attempts provide the comedy, while a surprisingly genuine emotional undercurrent about first love, friendship, and the anxiety of adolescent sexuality gives the film unexpected heart.

Jason Biggs's Jim, whose mortifying encounters include being caught by his father in an intimate moment with a warm apple pie — the scene that gave the film its title and most infamous gag — became the film's comedic centerpiece. Eugene Levy's performance as Jim's embarrassingly supportive father, who offers explicit sexual advice with unfailing sincerity, became one of the franchise's most beloved running elements. Alyson Hannigan's final-act revelation as the seemingly innocent band camp girl Michelle added the film's most quotable line.

American Pie earned $235 million worldwide on a $11 million budget, launching a franchise of theatrical sequels and direct-to-video spin-offs and establishing the raunchy teen comedy as the dominant comedy subgenre of the early 2000s.