A portion too far of this inedible Pie

There is a moment in the fourth and hopefully final slice of the American Pie series when lovable Jim Levenstein (Biggs) loses his patience with sex-obsessed man-child Stifler (Scott) and laments: “You’re so trapped in the past. When are you going to realise things will never be the way they used to be?”

Writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Jason Schlossberg would have done well to heed their own lesson, because Reunion spends almost two hours clinging onto the same illusion, placing the now thirty-something characters in the same cringeworthy situations that end with Jim trapping his manhood in a laptop or another member of the gang being spattered with bodily fluids.

Pert breasts and male appendages abound, shrouded in the usual sniggering schoolboy humour that still believes the lead character harpooning a warm apple pie with his lower portions is the dizzying pinnacle of bad taste.

Subtlety didn’t receive an invitation to this reunion.

We can predict punchlines in advance and the characters don’t derive anything of value from their experiences.

They are older, but none the wiser.