Judd Apatow

Sweet and raunchy in equal measure, which I suppose makes it the aged-to-perfection version of American Pie.

Apatow's part in the rehab of the mainstream comedy relies on the underlying yearnings of archetypal social strivers.

Mostly succeeds on its own merits...[but] many comedic and musical distractions pad the 134-minute running time and stray from the implicit promise of that title: the film has little to say about middle age...