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Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best
Review: I just got the DVD yesterday and I know that Not Another Teen Movie has got to be my favorite movie ever. The writers, actors, and director definatly know what they're doing!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Decent Movie
Review: The first half of the movie was the funniest thing I've ever seen, the second half sucked. Thats all there is to it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The opening sequence is disturbing
Review: This movie starts out with a teenage girl masturbating and being walked in on by her dad, her brother, her grandmother, two little kids, and a priest. Once they're all in her presence, the object she's masturbating with flies out onto her birthday cake.
Needless to say, this is NOT a movie for kids, and not funny enough for adults either.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved it.
Review: I loved this movie 'plus' it has a great bunch of unboring special features.

I listened to the whole CAST commentary and at the end I relised how tasteless it was, not because they are teens or anything, I am 17 myself, its honestly because the commentary sucked!

But hey, the movies good and so are the features!

(I would only recommend this film for those aged between 13 and 21...and those who haven't grown up yet!)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: High school cliches take their hits in this parody....
Review: Ah. Teen movies.

Having attended high school in early 1980s America, I always was amazed by the teen-movie genre, particularly John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, cute-but-angst-ridden comedy-dramas starring Molly Ringwald (who makes a cameo in this movie) and dealing with the social and love lives (or lack thereof) of teenagers. I somehow never got around to seeing some of the raunchier teen movies (American Pie, She's All That) that Not Another Teen Movie spoofs, but nevertheless, even some of the classier Hughes' directed-or-produced flicks had at least some of the elements targeted by this Airplane!-styled parody.

In every teen movie I have seen there do exist such archetypes as "The Obsessed Best Friend," "The Stupid Fat Guy," "The Popular Jock," "The Token Black Guy," "The Desperate Virgin" (perhaps the one archetype most guys in high school can relate to), "The Perfect Girl," ad infinitum and ad nauseam, and when such a trend of repetition appears (as it does in all genres), it becomes a ripe target for broad parody shots.

The plot is a blend of Cruel Intentions and She's All That, with elements of almost every recent teen movie tossed in for good measure. There is a slight central story revolving around a bet (can a "Pretty Ugly Girl" be transformed into the Prom Queen?), but there are many little vignettes tossed in by the five screenwriters involved. (Like all things written by committee, Not Another Teen Movie has a certain hit-and-miss quality to it, but the gags are often very funny, raunchy -- does that "Foreign Exchange Student" ever catch a cold from walking around nekkid all the time? -- and even dead-on!)

The 2002 Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment DVD comes loaded with extras that make this movie more enjoyable. I particularly liked the Teen Movie Factoids track and the Test Your Teen Movie I.Q. test (I don't watch many of these puppies, so I didn't do so well...d'oh!)

As for the movie itself, while it's not quite in the same level as Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein, I did find it enjoyable and funny. In that, director Joel Gallen achieved his goal, and it made a quiet Saturday afternoon more mirthful.

(24 fans, take note: "The Cruelest Girl" in Not Another Teen Movie was played by Mia Kirshner, who is better known as the cold and deadly Mandy on Fox's 24)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Suprisingly Funny!
Review: I finally decided to just sit down and watch this movie when it was on cable. I thought it would be pretty stupid so I didn't have any expectations for this movie, and boy was I suprised - I loved it!

Yeah, it is kind of stupid and overexaggerated, but that's what makes this movie so funny! It has parodys of so many different "teen flicks" including *She's All That*, *Pretty in Pink*, and *Can't Hardly Wait*, just to name a few. There are also a few cameos that make it that much better. I would higly recommend this movie to anyone who loves teen flicks and stupid comedies because there is definitely something in this movie that will make you laugh.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: So sick it makes you laugh
Review: Not all movies are designed to be timeless classics. Some movies are just designed to make you laugh, think or make you look twice. This is a movie that can make you laugh if you have the right mindset going in. A movie designed for parody or satire is designed to make you laugh. Some people want every movie to be on Golden Pond or Tombstone.

Just like if you attend a concert not caring for the music style being played, you will not enjoy it; so it is with this movie. Sit down, free your mind and just enjoy the gags. There are scenes that are exceptionally funny and some that I was less enthused about, but all in all I simply enjoyed the laughs and even some of the gross humor. You have stereotyped teen movie characters that are absaloute parodies of the genre but easily identified with the movie being parodied. Scenes that are just totally turned on their ear for laughs and moments that are just simply enjoyable. The movie does lose steam at the end but by then, if you enjoy gross parodies, you will be tired from laughing and are ready for the end of the movie.

I say enjoy the show

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: where do I start
Review: where do I start with this sucky potstinky, crappy, smelly, awful, spoof of spoofs that really suck. though my favorite person here is the wannabe chinese kid. otherwise it is like, kill me now. how awful could it of gotten, awful. with crude and distasteful jokes that just get to old, this one shouldnt of happened period.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Surprisingly good if you know your teen movies
Review: Speaking as a long-time fan of teen movies, I was quite impressed by the scope and quality of this motion picture. I don't generally go for gross-out humor, but this film takes a slightly higher road than, say, Scary Movie, actually striving to encapsulate all of the bits and pieces of years of other movies into a coherent plot. Sure, there are a few aspects of real raunchiness included here, with two scenes in particular being pretty disgusting, but the movie never sunk to the level of becoming distasteful to my eyes. I also have to admire the verve with which the filmmakers went about their tasks; if you are going to do a full-fledged parody, I say don't hold back, and Not Another Teen Movie does not hold back at all, especially in terms of the language. This movie is brash and unafraid, and that is a real factor in its success.

I was amazed by the vast number of movies that found themselves ridiculed and incorporated into this film; I was expecting send-ups of teen comedies from the past ten years, but this movie draws heavily from a number of classic 80s films and even snatches a few things from 1970 classics such as Grease. Even a number of films I wouldn't consider teen movies (but which do feature teens) are pulled into this satirical universe - e.g., American Beauty. This could almost be a weakness because today's teens may be unfamiliar with a lot of the parodies involved in this production; having come of age in the 80s, I easily spotted the references to classics such as Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc., but I wonder how many of today's teens pick up on little things such as the name of the high school (John Hughes High), understand the origins of a character such as Ricky, or see the significance of the prom dress Janey Briggs wears. Of course, the most obvious nod to 80s teen movies comes in the form of Molly Ringwald's unusual cameo appearance and the impressive homage to The Breakfast Club, which I admit left me feeling a little older than I would like to be. I think it is safe to say that those unfamiliar with teen movies of the last twenty years will get little enjoyment out of Not Another Teen Movie; you have to know the source of the parodies in order to really "get" them, and the mere task of trying to count the number of different movie reference can be a source of amusement in and of itself.

The DVD comes loaded with extras. If you have only a limited knowledge of teen movies, you may want to start by taking the Teen Movie I.Q. Quiz; if you score less than 50% on the quiz, you would do well to bone up on your teen movie knowledge before taking the step of actually watching Not Another Teen Movie. The list of additional special features, I must say, is legion: commentaries by both filmmakers and cast, 18 deleted scenes including the original ending, three behind-the-scenes featurettes, cast promos, an illuminating yearbook montage featuring the class of John Hughes High, a collection of cast member auditions, movie trailers, Meet the Cast promos, and a track of teen movie factoids. But wait, there's even more. First-time feature film director Joel Gallen's first short film is thrown into the mix, alongside a Behind the Video look at the unrated version of Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love video. If you think the likes of Mia Kirshner, Chyler Leigh, and Jaime Pressly are hot in the movie (and I don't know how you could think otherwise), you really want to see this video.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: this movie gets old fast
Review: the first few times you see this movie you think man this is funny. after a while though it gets really stupid really fast GC kicks...as the prom band and chyler Leigh is HOT


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