Not Another Teen Movie

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Summary: Worth three stars for the token black guy alone...
Review: But there's some other good stuff here as well. When a genre reaches its saturation point, nothing takes the piss out of it like a good satire, and "Not Another Teen Movie" fits that bill quite nicely. Since teen movies are notorious for taking themselves way too seriously, it was inevitable that a movie was going to come along to do for the genre what "Airplane" did for disaster movies and "The Naked Gun" did for cop flicks. Such a movie could every easily wind up being every bit as stupid as the targets it mocks, but fortunately "Not Another Teen Movie" is far funnier and more intelligent than it has any right to be. Although it takes its plot loosely from the miserable "She's All That," "Not Another Teen Movie" takes aim at virtually every overheated teen dramedy to hit it big in the past two decades or so. Every few seconds, there's some inspired gag that slices and dices the more ridiculous elements of such movies as "American Pie," "The Breakfast Club," and "Varsity Blues." The movie trots out every stock character possible, and deflates every pretentious genre cliché in the book. There's the pack of horny teens, the slow-motion entrances, the big high-school party, the geek in love with the beautiful girl, and of course the above-mentioned token black guy (who absolutely owns the movie in his limited screen time). Even the gross-out gags are way funnier than they should be, because it's obvious that they're entirely tongue-in-cheek. It also doesn't hurt that the cast includes two of the hottest women alive in Chyler Leigh and Mia Kirshner (not even to mention Jaime Pressley), or that Molly Ringwald and That Guy Who Played The Principal In "The Breakfast Club" are brought back for way-funny cameos. And while I don't really know what exactly Mr. T was doing here, his appearance is still quite humorous. The movie does lose a few points for having the horrible excuse for a band known as Good Charlotte playing at the high school prom, but it's not enough to bring it down. If you're not above laughing at some admittedly sophomoric stuff, you should check this one out.

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Summary: How Could Someone Like This?
Review: Outdated Jokes , Bad Acting , Just A Horrible Movie With One Shining Point It's A Spoof Of Spoofs.

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Summary: ULTIMATE SLAP IN THE FACE TO STUPID TEEN COMEDIES
Review: With the barrage of truly tasteless, awful and thoroughly uninspiring teen movies that have flooded the market over the past two decades, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the ultimate send off, slap-in-the-face spoof that would put the competition to shame. And here is that movie, aptly titled, "Not Another Teen Movie". From the onset we are treated to snippets and one liners that blatently criticize the teen market of mindless fluff. Everything from "Pretty in Pink" to "Never Been Kissed" gets the ax and the chops are mercilessly funny. Plot: threadbare at best, involves an ugly duckling who (no kidding) is transformed into a swan and wins the heart of the best looking guy in the school. Stop me if you've heard this one before. But plot is not what this movie is about. Ripping into the past is and this film makes an understandible mockery of everything that has gone before it, wisely excluding John Hughes' "The Breakfast Club" from its assault.
TRANSFER WISE: Columbia's given us a fairly solid transfer with bold, saturated colors, good fine detail, solid blacks and excellent contrast levels. Though edge enhancement is apparent in several scenes and shimmering does come and go, pixelization is not present for a pretty smooth looking visual presentation. The audio is 5.1 and nicely spread across all the channels.
EXTRAS: Deleted scenes (most adding nothing to the film), audio commentary, making-of featurettes and a music video. Well done.
BOTTOM LINE: "Not Another Teen Movie" is gross-out comedy and, while I'm generally not in favor of shock value substituted for genuinely funny material, in this case - it works to illustrate just how bad all the other teen flicks have been that have gone before. This is one funny send up to bad comedy!

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Summary: well...
Review: it has Chyler Leigh in it (drool gorrble murble globba
woogmmh fwejheegahoohoohahshablehhhheeeee pant pant...) and it makes fun of that completely ridiculous and stupid "slow clap" thing that ONLY happens in the STUPIDEST movies (like "Cool Runnings" and "Lionheart" starring I'm-a-ballerina-pretending-to-be-a-martial-artist Jean Claude Van Damme), and NEVER in real life. So i give it five stars.

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Summary: great
Review: watched 10 times before getting bored. funnier than american pie movies, though there isn't a good plot. it is gross and it failed on a few jokes, but it is still one of the top 5 funniest movies i've seen. great extras like half hour of great deleted scenes, a wierd music video (tainted love), and less interesting stuff like trailers, auditions, making of, and commentaries. Also see Dirty Work(norm mcdonald) and almost heros(chris farly) which is video only.

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Summary: yuck
Review: horrible, horrible, horrible is all this movie really deserves out of my review

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Summary: The awfulness seems to be it's redeeming quality.
Review: This film to me is so godawful that you can't help but be entertained by it based on that merit alone. I've seen many teen comedies and spoofs, and it appears from looking at the overall average customer review for this film, many seem to applaud it a bit more than many other films of this caliber, including some of the films that this movie pokes fun at. I may be a party of one, or one of a short few that doesn't seem to agree with the apparent consensus, but I'll get to my reasons why later.

First off, it's obvious that this movie is one gigantic spoof that pokes fun at many teen films such as Can't Hardly Wait, She's All That, Varsity Blues and a ton of others, not to mention some rather vulgar shots at Broadway. If you've seen any or all of the aforementioned films, you'll be able to catch onto the humorous jabs. However, if you haven't seen any of the dozens of films that are being referenced here, you'll come away feeling like this film was one ridiculous, sloppy, corny, nonsensical waste.

However, what keeps me from enjoying this on a higher level is that while the jabs were obviously meant to be stupid and corny, the overall dialogue seems to be missing some kind of character, and the humor just seems very flat and insipid. Out of the entire movie, there were literally only one or two moments where I bust out laughing, while the other laughs seemed more like sarcastic and strained snickering. Perhaps it would have been a bit more to my liking if they cut a little bit more brutally into the jugular, like the Scary Movie series did, and while some may have cringed due to the ridiculously excessive amount of crude vulgarity found in the Scary Movie series, that trademark alone gave that series a bit of backbone, bite and character which couldn't be ignored. Here, none of that seems to be present, and the effort comes across like a weak rehash of past spoofs that leave much more to be desired. I suppose that youngsters who have had strict upbringing, and weren't permitted to watch obscene movies would bust a gut laughing if they saw this for the first time.

And perhaps, this is where all of the ironies are uncovered. The film is so silly, stupid, corny and overblown that you really CAN'T help but be charmed and entertained by it somewhat. While all of my dissatisfactions are listed above, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have somewhat ambivalent feelings, as I enjoyed it as sheer entertainment, but nothing more. Of course, this may have been what the writers were trying to aim for exactly - getting an ambivalent reaction out of viewers. Of course, this may have been the original tendency of the spoof genre in general. My rating for this is 2.5 stars, as I enjoy other comedies and spoofs more than this one (not to mention that I actually enjoy some of the movies they made fun of - She's All That, Can't Hardly Wait and Varsity Blues - better than this.) You may have a different reaction to this than I did, so give it a shot. It's entertaining to say the least.

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Summary: A Great Spoof of the Teen Movie Genre
Review: This movie was extremely funny, fast moving, and loaded with referrences to at least a half dozen teen movies. One of the most enjoyable components in watching this movie is the effort you exert in trying to figure out which movie is being spoofed at any given time. Defintely one to rent or better yet to buy.

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Summary: Ironically, it was another teen movie
Review: This is one of those movies where they compact every good and funny part (well mostly funny) and condense it in to the film commericals and trailers.
It really was a poorly written satire at teen movies of today, and can now join the collection of the new mock-a-movie movie which is becoming so popular.
It does have it's upsides though, with pokes at various movies which we love to hate; "She's All That" - but it does tend to over labour the joke, throughout the movie.
In all, it is really a give or take situation as to buying this movie. On one hand, it is great for playing in the background whilst working at your desk or doing homework. On the other, it can be a bit annoying, or even one of those movies where you take it out of the VCR (or DVD player!) within the first 15 minutes.
Rent it first!! You may like it. This should be floating around TBS Superstation soon, so you might catch it there. Having said that, TBS does tend to butcher and cut movies to fit in to time slots, family ratings and commerical time, so it probably won't give you an excellent idea about how funny or lame it is.
In All, it has it's funny points, so it's worth watching, probably not worth buying though

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Summary: Terrific High School comedy
Review: You did not see this movie on any critic's top ten year end lists but it deserves to be on them. This movie will surely attain cult like status and be enjoyed long after the overrated films from 2001 have evaporated. I should mention 2001 was a very good year for movies to boot so Not Another Teen Comedy is in good company.
For sure it parodies and pokes and probes countless high school comedies from the recent and somewhat distant past. Spotting the influences would take too much time. But this cross pollination works for several reasons. Yeh the humor is broad but it is telling comedy. This flick and its over the top antics nails the high school culture experience right on the nose. The anxieties, futlities and clique horrors are all explored with wit and panache.
The cast is uniformally excellent as everyone embraces their "stereotype" with gusto. Mia Kirshner and Jamie Pressley are incredible in this film. Cudos to the director Gallen for keeping everything in perspective and percolating.
This movie just feels right from the start. Always in sync, Not Another Teen Movie, perhaps because of the R rating, raises the bar a notch in the teen comedy genre. This allows the director to push the envelope-particularly with Kirsner's character-but also allows breathing room and tension release for audiences who fully understand the awkward, dark, restless and flat out wierd experience that is high school. The lusts and thwarted desires are all in evidence here in spades.
And the Grease like musical moment before the prom is pure joy.
What a debut for Gallen.
This is simply the best high school comedy I've seen in ages and ranks amoung the best.
Enjoy.