Not Another Teen Movie

Rating:
Summary: Another Parody
Review: Not Another Teen Movie is, of course, a parody of many teen movies. The actors and actresses are :
Chyler Leigh as Janey Briggs (the pretty ugly girl)
Chris Evans as Jake Wyler (the popular jock)
Jaime Pressly as Priscilla (the nasty cheerleader)
Eric Christian Olsen as Austin (the cocky blonde guy
Mia Kirshner as Catherine (the cruelest girl)
Deon Richmond as Malik (the token black guy)
Eric Jungmann as Ricky (the obsessed best friend)
Ron Lester as Reggie Ray (the stupid fat guy)
Cody McMains as Mitch Briggs (the desperate virgin)
Sam Huntington as Ox (the sensitive guy)
Lacey Chabert as Amanda Becker (the perfect girl)
Cerina Vincent as Areola (the foreign exchange student)
Samm Levine as Bruce (the wannabe)
Beverly Polcyn as Sadie (the undercover reporter)
Riley Smith as Les (the beatiful weirdo)
The storyline (similar to She's All That) is about a girl Janey, who becomes the object of a bet. Jake thinks he can turn her into prom queen while his friends don't. This movie is wickedly hilarious. The jokes will only make sense if you have seen Bring It On, She's All That, American Pie, Cruel Intenions, American Beauty, Can't Hardly Wait, The Breakfast Club, and countless others. It is easily as good as scary movie, if not better. The dvd has a lot of extras and is a special edition. If you like scary movie one or two, teen comedies, or just parodies in general, then you'll love Not Another Teen Movie.

Rating:
Summary: Amusing, but tepid, spoof. Good party movie, though.
Review: "Not Another Teen Movie" is a spoof comedy that jabs fun at every teen-themed movie made in the last 15 years, from "The Breakfast Club" to "American Pie". At times, the movie is very funny, at other times, it's own stupidity is cause for laughter.

The most prevelant spoofs are of "She's All That" (Jock turns nerdy girl into prom queen), "Bring It On" (cheerleaders stealing other squad's cheers), and "Cruel Intentions" (Sister wants to go to bed with her brother). These are the funny moments, with some snappy, often vulgar dialogue. What I loved was how it pokes fun at the character cliches, introducing the "Token Black Guy", "The Obsessed Best Friend", "The Popular Jock", and "The Nasty Cheerleader". As spoofs go, this one is well timed. Teen movies are the trend, so movies like this are inevitable. To it's credit, "Not Another Teen Movie" is much better than "Scary Movie".

The low points of this movie are what keep it from being a great movie. Subtle humor is often more effective than in-your-face gross out humor. I didn't find the toilet scene (you can't miss it) to be amusing, just revolting. As well, the tastless "American Pie" jabs, with Randy Quaid having "Three Way" with two pies, is just stupid. Sometimes, a comedy should know when to quit.

The DVD package is full of goodies, from a cache of deleted scenes (18 in all), too a quiz to test your teen movie knowledge, to the audition outtakes. For a fan of the movie, you couldn't ask for anything more. For the casual viewer, the extras add to the juvenile fun of the movie.

Overall, this is not a great movie. Not that I was expecting one, so no harm done. In truth, "Not Another Teen Movie" is a mixed bag: smart at times, stupid at others. I recommend viewing it with a group of friends, so you can all laugh out loud. Other than that, it is not a movie that warrants repeated viewings.

Rating:
Summary: The funniest movie!!!
Review: This movie is so funny! I love it because it's so cliche to all the teen movies of the past. Every character you can think of from any teen movie is featured in this movie. I swear, I can start watching this movie an hour into it and it still makes me laugh! It's probably the stupidist movie I have ever seen but it's too amusing not to love!

Rating:
Summary: Amusing spoof with a good cast
Review: "Not Another Teen Movie," directed by Joel Gallen, is a silly, entertaining spoof of the whole teen movie genre. Films from the 1980s John Hughes heyday onward are satirized: "Pretty in Pink," "The Breakfast Club," "American Pie," etc. Although not all of the jokes work, the movie as a whole is pretty funny.

The story follows a group of students at John Hughes High School (wink, wink). Each character is a recognizable genre stereotype: the cocky blond guy, the desparate virgin, the sexy foreign exchange student, etc. One of the film's best assets is its likable young cast. The actors tear into the silly material with enthusiasm. Chris Evans is solid as "popular jock" Jake Wyler, as is Chyler Leigh as Janey Briggs, the "ugly" girl who just needs to lose her ponytail and glasses. But the most hilarious performance is probably turned in by Jaime Pressly, who is deliciously over-the-top as "nasty cheerleader" Priscilla. The main cast is nicely complemented by some clever cameos; I won't ruin the fun surprises by revealing those cameos here.

There is a lot of gross-out humor involving incest, masturbation, and various bodily secretions. The film actually starts off strong with a spectacularly funny sequence involving an adult "toy." Yes, some of the dialogue and abundant sight gags are crude, cruel, violent, and even exploitative, so avoid the film if you're sensitive to such stuff.

The cast performs a big musical number, and the film also makes clever use of recognizable songs. NATM isn't exactly Oscar Wilde, but for what it is, it's fun.

Rating:
Summary: More like JUST ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE
Review: I don't know what the hell I was smokin' when I was under the blissful inllusion that this might actually be a decent movie. I have never been smokin', I am not currently stoning, and I have no plans of ever puffin' the magic dragon, so what was wrong with me?

I used to joke with friends when they would talk about NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE, by saying "Yeah, I know you don't like that they made another one, but what's it called?" Now, when they are talking about NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE, my response is always an energetic "You can say that again(and again.)"

Was there ever a more plotless, boneheaded, out and out boring comedy than NATM? Well, yeah, actually, but not a whole lot. I think it says something about the collective sense of humor of the current teenage generation that some faceless, dimwitted cardboard cut-out known only as "The token black guy" qualifies as an interseting character.

Rating:
Summary: A pretty gawddamned funny movie! Gawddammit!
Review: "Not Another Teen Movie" is certainly worth the rental price. I must admit, the commercials for it when it was originally released made it look pretty bad...which was why I avoided watching it for so long until a friend cajoled me into it.

Anyhoo, I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. True, some of the jokes are unbelieveably tasteless. Jokes concerning people getting sprayed with human excrement, incest, and Tourette's syndrome are pretty bad, admittedly, and aren't the movie's strong point. Plus, the "Breakfast Club" homage and Molly Ringwald cameo are actually kind of lame.

However, where this flick succeeds is in its relatively quieter moments: when it cuts through all the smarmy, romantic cliches of the American teen film genre. The "Varsity Blues" parody has to be the best scene in the movie topped off by Ed Lauter's hilarious performance as the ridiculously angry coach. Other favorite moments of mine is when the Popular Jock (in order to impress the Pretty Ugly Girl) saves her bratty younger brother from getting his ... kicked, and then ends up beating [up]the kid anyway; and the entire sequence when the aforementioned jock rushes to the airport to tell said girl (who is leaving for Paris) that he loves her. Oh yeah! And there's a pretty nifty musical number too!

Obviously, I'm not doing these scenes a whole lot of justice by barfing them back to you via Internet, but I'm doing my best, OK?!?!

Anyhoo, I'm not sure whether or not you should actually *BUY* this flick, but it's definitely worth a few laffs for a slow evening's entertainment.

Plus, if gratuitously nudity is what you look for in a movie, this one's got tons of it.

Peace.

Rating:
Summary: Falls down in some places, but very funny overall
Review: I was in high school when John Hughes released some of his most memorable movies, and I really enjoyed how this film poked fun at movies like "The Breakfast Club," "Sixteen Candles," and "Pretty in Pink." Even "Risky Business" is spoofed. Also, the cameo by Molly Ringwald, perhaps the queen of 80s teen movies, is great.

Crossing over into the 90s, "She's All That," "American Pie," and "Can't Hardly Wait" also receive some good-natured jabs. Lacey Chabert is excellent, reprising the "Hardly Wait" role of her "Party of Five" co-star, Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Where this movie strays, however, is when the humor takes a scatological turn. For some reason, we are expected to enjoy jokes about excrement; and, judging from the silence of the people sitting around me in the theater, we weren't amused. Furthermore, if the intent was to shock us, that intent failed, too. We were simply disgusted. Oddly enough, Neal Moritz, who produced "Cruel Intentions," also produced this movie. You would think that he would show more respect to his original. It's one thing to push the envelope . . . it's another to tear the envelope open and run it through the paper shredder.

Comedic timing is the trick to making an audience laugh. It's also knowing when you've pushed the joke far enough. Occasionally, this movie pushes it too far. More often than not, however, the jokes hit the target, and the laughs are plentiful.

Rating:
Summary: Not another Sorry Movie!
Review: Pointless.

Pointless.

And really pointless.

Do people just go through the motions when they write these scripts and direct these movies?

Rating:
Summary: More like zero stars
Review: This movie was complete rubbish. A parody of a parody is like making a copy from a copy...cheap effort.

So over the top it was like they threw up over the jokes they were trying to tell.

Forget this.

Rating:
Summary: So well done. SO funny!
Review: I've rented this DVD more times than I can say and I've decided that I just have to buy it. Just sooooo funny. I mean, not laugh out loud funny, but a LOT of chuckling funny. I just think it's so well written and produced. A bonus feature of the DVD is to listen to the movie with the cast commentary. I just thought this was the cleverist movie ever. Try to watch all the movies this makes fun of: Never Been Kissed, She's All That, Can't Hardly Wait, Bring It On, and others. It just makes it more funnier.

Great movie. Really well done.