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Summary: Funny
Review: They reference (I'm told) a bunch of movies I haven't seen, but it was funny anyway. Also, the girls are beautiful.
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Summary: Tied with "Dude, Where's My Car" for Tiny Tim Award
Review: From the previews, this looked like it would be a hysterical movie. It was a good concept but unfortunately like most concepts, it never came to fruition. I usually enjoy this genre of movie spoofs (Scary Movie) but this one was just too contrived and poorly executed. The biggest flaw in this movie was it was very disjointed and the plot didn't flow smoothly. It was kind of like watching Saturday Night Live without any commercial breaks. Skit after skit of parodies from cult classics (you name it, they did it) but put together like a patchwork quilt. The other big flaw was that a lot of the scenes were just not funny. I've got a healthy sense of humor but this movie tested it. After a while, I was trying to find stuff to laugh at. It was agonizing to watch them act through a well-known scene and not bring anything new to the table, and worse, have their reenactment turn out to be unfunny. The majority of the funny scenes turned up in the preview and it left you wanting for more.The whole cheerleader skit got lame quick, (crippled from jump), especially when they reenacted a scene from "Bring It On". The virgins trying to be deflowered also got weak, quick fast and in a hurry. A lot of the scenes would have been funny if they had not dragged them out and ended them quick, but they took somewhat funny scenes and dragged them to death. I rolled my eyes at so many scenes that I had a headache. It's as if they didn't know when to quit. I enjoyed a few scenes but the movie was very forgettable, I only remember one or two scenes that were worth laughing at. Maybe my expectations were too high, although I didn't expect much and I got even less. Just one scene after another of borrowed material. I don't recall there being very much original stuff. It probably would have been better if they had come up with a movie and then added in spoofs, as opposed to trying to build a whole movie around nothing but spoofs. In short, it really could have been something funny but they ruined it by being completely unoriginal. If you feel the need to waste money, go ahead and buy it, otherwise, rent it and make up your own mind. Again, I strongly advise against purchasing this movie.
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Summary: SPOOFS MORE MOVIES THAN YOU'VE PROBABLY EVER SEEN
Review: Well, so far I've seen this twice, and it may grow on me some more. You gotta be a real teen movie buff to have "done your homework" enough to catch all the references. I guess the makers of this have seen all the movies it takes aim at. But I wonder if anyone else has. But the one movie it seems to zero in on most of all is SHE'S ALL THAT, which I'd have to see again to fully appreciate this. Too bad that's the only reason I've ever found to see SHE'S ALL THAT again. In fact, I'm wondering -- SHE'S ALL THAT was so silly, what if someone saw it AFTER seeing this? Could SHE'S ALL THAT look like a spoof of this instead? Other movies spoofed are with mixed results. The spoof of NEVER BEEN KISSED did nothing for me. I liked that movie but could still imagine an effective spoof of it, but this ain't it. On the other hand, they could have done more with BRING IT ON and I wish they had. A better cheerleader travesty is SUGAR AND SPICE. AMERICAN PIE is also spoofed ineffectively with an intended send-up of Nadia, that left me only missing the real Nadia. Some reviews are saying this spoofed also CAN'T HARDLY WAIT. But all I can remember of that uneven movie is Lauren Ambrose's surprise shining performance and I didn't catch anything in this to spoof that. For those totally uninhibited in their sense of humor, NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE spoofs a short scene from DETROIT ROCK CITY. If they were going to take on that movie at all, I'm surprised they passed up the most hilarious part - the priest under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms. But on second thought, a scene so hilarious would be hard to contribute more humor to through a spoof, so maybe that explains it. Well there's a lot more that could be said, but as for me I'm ready to rush out to my video store to catch up on some of this movie's targets that I missed!
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Summary: Too rambling but has its occasional moments
Review: This seems to go by a rule that the better the movie being parodied, the less effectively it parodies it. The already lame SHE'S ALL THAT must be the most heavily drawn upon by this parody, and the most memorably and coherently parodied. But a movie as silly as SHE'S ALL THAT is prone to be more emulated than parodied by any parodic attempt, and that happens to a considerable extent. On the other hand, the few stabs taken at NEVER BEEN KISSED fall utterly flat. NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE is indiscriminate in what it parodies, taking on even movies that are already parodies, like SCARY MOVIE. It's hard to parody a parody, but no one seemed to have thought of that. It's furthermore hard to imagine any movie having time to effectively parody all the many target movies that this one tries to take on. The bit of attempts aimed at AMERICAN PIE include a foreign exchange student to parody that film's Nadia. But Nadia had many funny and even likeable moments; her spoof herein seems to be in the movie only to first sarcastically and unfunnily insult the type of students... I hoped for (and guess I expected) more from this movie. The ultimate send-up of teen movies seemed a most intriguing idea. But the times it delivers on my expectations are woefully few and far between.
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Summary: NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE
Review: NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE makes fun of those classic teenage comdies such as "American Pie," "She's All That," "Varsity Blues," "The Breakfast Club," and many others. The film takes place at John Hughes High School, where a popular football player makes a bet that he can turn a ugly girl into the prom queen. There's also a string of gags and jokes about sex, diarrhea, Tourette's Syndrome, brain concussions, desperate male virgins, and token black guys scattered throughout the movie so that the audience never stops laughing. Let's also not forget about the female foreign exchange student who walks around during the whole movie wearing absolutly nothing! All in all, this movie is a good way to kill 2 hours.
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Summary: Worst Movie Ever MADE
Review: Not Another Teen Movie is a spoof in the mold of Scary Movie with one drastic difference: There's almost nothing in Teen Movie that's actually funny. That might be because director Joel Gallen and his squad of five writers assume that the simple act of making a reference to another film is the same thing as making a joke about it. Wrong. Gallen misses the point about why Scary Movie worked. Keenen Ivory Wayans and his Scary Movie writers expanded upon their source material -- the Scream films and others -- in imaginative and absurd ways, turning them inside out to find wild humor. Gallen and his so-called writers, however, merely mimic scenes from better movies, then add something inappropriate to the proceedings: gratuitous nudity, poop jokes, vibrators. For really big laughs, they name the institution where this all takes place -- John Hughes High School (named for the film director). Where do they come up with this stuff? Teen Movie draws most of its inspiration from the Freddie Prinze Jr. film, She's All That, a lame Pygmalion story about the most popular guy in school wooing the class bohemian as part of a bet. In this case, it's cool guy Jake Wyler (Chris Evans) trying to make a prom queen out of the bespectacled rebel Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh). Before it's over, Teen Movie has cannibalized the entire Hughes teen canon (including Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful), as well as other examples of the genre: American Pie, Cruel Intentions, Bring It On, American Beauty and Risky Business, to name a few. Once in a very great while, Gallen pushes the gross-out material to the point that he generates an actual chuckle. It happened twice, by my count. When he wants to be really clever, he tosses in a cameo by a veteran of one of Hughes' films (including former teen queen Molly Ringwald). Teen films obviously are ripe for satirizing. After seeing Not Another Teen Movie, it's safe to say they still are. Even at a mere 80 minutes this one feels interminable. RATING: 0/10
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Summary: How didn't I see this movie coming.
Review: For a change, I'll be brief... "Not Another Teen Movie" is hilarious. The cast are game and great, 50% of it is vile and juvinile, 40% of it is clever, 10% of it doesn't work, so by my count, 90% of it is freakin hysterical. Plus Jaime Pressly is hot. Bring on "Not Another Teen Movie 2"... Wait, scratch that.. I just remembered how bad "Scary Movie 2" was.
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Summary: Not Another Teen Movie
Review: Not Another Teen Movie puts a whole new spin on spoofing
movies. It takes clever new jabs on some older teen movies, while keeping the audience wrapped up in the story. The movie presents a bunch of fresh faces, such as Chyler Leigh, as the pretty ugly girl, Janey Briggs. Leigh proves herself as a very versatile actress as she falls through a stairwell, cracks jokes and gets tagged in the head with a football. Chris Evans, as Jake Wyler, the popular jock is clearly perfect for the role. Other cast members are Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner, Jaime Pressly and there are a ton more. The movie also features a handful of cameos of other teen movie stars. Overall this movie may very well be the funniest movie of 2001.
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Summary: funny, at times crude
Review: This spoof movie covered a lot of ground. Numberous popular movies were parodied - and in pretty funny ways. There were lots of little things that were funny, usually inconspicuousily in the background. It get's a bit crude at times, were you want to turn away and wonder why you're watching this movie, but the overall funniness put forth was worth the price. The actors did a great job, the women were all beautiful.
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Summary: has funny parts, but overall not very good
Review: as with scary movie it has plenty of dirty jokes and a least 1 or 2 funny parts, but movies that make fun of actual GOOD movies can't actually be that interesting. good cast and the women! I say just see how high (rated R for crude sexual humor, brief nudity, and language)
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