This Is Where American Pie 2 Was Filmed

Like its predecessor, "American Pie 2" was shot almost entirely in the area surrounding Los Angeles, California. In fact, we only say "almost" because there are a few establishing shots and scenes of the boys driving around Michigan, and those naturally had to be shot second unit in the real locations, according to Movie-Locations.com.

Otherwise, per the same website, everything we see in the movie is really California, beginning with the fictional city of East Great Falls, Michigan, and the characters' homes there. Most of the town, including Jim's (Jason Biggs), Michelle's (Alyson Hannigan), and the two women's houses, consists of various different locations around Long Beach. The lake house scenes, meanwhile, were shot in Paradise Cove, Malibu.

Even the scenes set in Spain, when Oz (Chris Klein) is phoning Heather (Mena Suvari) while she's studying abroad, and New York, from which Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) calls Jim while on her way to Michigan, were shot in the same general area. "New York" is really downtown Los Angeles with the World Trade Center added into the background, and Heather's Spain is a smartly decorated street in Pasadena, with the Pasadena City Hall standing in for an old European palace (via It's Filmed There).