American Pie 2 was filmed in Southern California, with several locations used to stand in for the Michigan setting. Notable filming sites include Malibu (Paradise Cove Beach area and nearby Shalom Institute), Altadena (Farnsworth Park as Tall Oaks Band Camp), Long Beach (Jim’s house), Pasadena (Pasadena City Hall area and Pasadena Playhouse appearances), and other Los Angeles County spots such as 214 West 7th Street in Los Angeles for exterior scenes, and various locations around the LA area used to represent school and urban exteriors. Some specific points often cited by production sources and location guides are:
- Malibu, California: Paradise Cove area used as the beach house exteriors; several Malibu sites appear in transitional or establishing shots.
- Altadena, California: Farnsworth Park used for Tall Oaks Band Camp exterior sequences.
- Long Beach, California: Jim’s house exterior and related exterior-adjacent scenes; some neighborhood exteriors on Cedar Avenue were used for interiors/ backgrounds.
- Pasadena, California: City Hall (exterior payphone scene references) and Pasadena Playhouse exterior shots.
- Los Angeles, California: Various downtown and street exteriors, including a location at 214 West 7th Street for a payphone scene in New York City, which is a production trick to imply distance.
If you’d like, I can pull up the most detailed, source-by-source breakdown of each location and map them to the corresponding scenes, or verify any single site you’re curious about.
