"American Wedding" and a 4th gen 4Runner

Mark86

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I was flipping through the movie channels yesterday and I found American Wedding on one of them. The reason I stopped at this movie was because I saw a 4th gen silver Limited on the screen. I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, but never realized that Jason Biggs character "Jim" drove a 4Runner. Maybe it is because I didn't drive a 4Runner when I saw it. You begin to see the 4Runner around 30 minutes into it. They show a little of the inside of it but mostly outside. I thought it was so cool that they would use a 4Runner in a big movie like that!!!
 
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It's a 4th Gen, I know in real life he drove a 3rd Gen and they interviewed him and he said the reason he drives it is cause it is a luxury vehicle that most overlook, guess he upgraded to a 4th and they decided to use it in the movie to keep cost down:)
 
That's almost the first thing I noticed when I saw the movie...lol. Most of the cars were Toyotas, I remember seeing an Avalon and an MR2 Spyder.
 
tkr128 said:
That's almost the first thing I noticed when I saw the movie...lol. Most of the cars were Toyotas, I remember seeing an Avalon and an MR2 Spyder.

What was that other 2 door car that Shit Brick was sitting in? Is there 2 door Echo maybe?
 
I remember his father drove a minivan. I think it was a Dodge Caravan. I think Stifler mom drove a Mercedes CL-600. Now I have to watch the movie over and take notice of all of the other Toyota's in it.
 
silver4x419 said:
What was that other 2 door car that Shit Brick was sitting in? Is there 2 door Echo maybe?

Those were in American Pie 2 I thought? American Wedding did not show the parents vehciles and Stiflers mom ony showed up in the last 5 minutes of the movie too to nail Shit Brick.
 
silver4x419 said:
Those were in American Pie 2 I thought? American Wedding did not show the parents vehciles and Stiflers mom ony showed up in the last 5 minutes of the movie too to nail Shit Brick.

Woops. You were right. The minivan and Mercedes were in the second.
 
I think I remember reading that Toyota was striking deals with several movie producers to showcase their cars in them.
 
Yep, I noticed when I first saw that movie in the theater that most of the cars were Toyotas. I even noticed the 4th gen 4Runner and thinking "nice!", and this was before I'd even considered buying one.

I've actually noticed quite a few movies where the majority (if not all) cars were Toyota.

There are other movies where other manufacturers are unusually predominant. Take the second Matrix movie for example. You can count over 200 cars and nearly (if not every) car is made by General Motors... especially in the highway scene when all the cars are getting wrecked.

GM donated all of those cars to the producers to get some publicity.

It's not even just car manufacturers now.. I've noticed other companies doing similar things. Go watch "Collateral" (awesome movie, BTW) and see how many times you see an advertisement for Bacardi Silver in the background.. sometimes it's even the only thing in the entire shot!

I was in a movie (Kindergarten Cop) when I was very young (2nd grade) and I remember they did NOT allow us to wear any clothing with brand names or slogans that could be seen on camera, as that could be considered unpaid advertising or if the movie got bad PR, the company could sue because their product was associated with the bad PR.
 

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