John Brooks This film is to its genre and comedy more largely as essential as the films it makes fun of or references throughout its playtime. The jokes are actually funny, the caricatures, the dialog, the concepts...it's just really funny stuff if you know what they're making fun of. The humor isn't over-the-top trying hard to force you to laugh, it's over-the-top in how it makes blatant, unadulterated fun of the movies it spoofs, and it does it really, really well. It also, ironically, serves as a fantastic cinematic catalog or compilation that reminds us of all those teen movies, that late 90's/early new millennium era, cheesy as hell, with all the nu-metal bands and Britney Spears, American Pie, the seminal days of the internet and that teen culture that expressed itself ever so awkwardly and vainly. The cool cliques at school, the nerdy feminist girl, the white guys who think they're black or Asian, the utter idiocy and thickness of the teen movies...it's all there, and in good taste and strong satirical work - and however one may be biased in a generational way, this film for what it is, in its context, is really a gem.

sethdhanson This movie kills me. It always has. The jokes are really funny and well timed. It doesn't go too over-the-top, and it gets better every time I watch it. This movie has a lot of the little things that go a long way to make it great. The performances are spot-on. The dialogue is snappy and clever. The pace is fast and the references spot-on.The girls in this movie are also wicked hot. The sister is out of control hot. Just blazing.If you review this movie and say that it's garbage, then you probably eat apples and complain that they don't taste like oranges.

dallasryan What I don't quite understand is why this movie has such a low IMDb rating. This is one of the top 10 funniest spoofs ever made. In about the last 10 years no movie has been able to touch the brilliance of Not Another Teen Movie. In the last 10 years, most of these so called 'spoofs'(if you want to even call them that)go off of a popular movie, and then they make jokes about that movie, but not about the popular movie itself, the jokes are made to what is hot and hip and in the now in our modern day culture. For example, Epic Movie plays out The Chronicles of Narnia aspect, but yet they don't make any jokes ripping into the Chronicles of Narnia, instead it has the Centaur rapping to a popular song while he's showing his crib off to the girl. Basically what they're doing is mixing The Chronicles of Narnia with MTV Cribs and Rap videos. It's not funny though because it's not relevant to the movie itself, which is The Chronicles of Narnia. And the reason it's not relevant to the movie itself is because it is mass produced puke that's been spat out by 4th rate writers who can't write their way out of a paper bag. So most spoofs nowadays use this type of formula. Using pop culture within the moving they're suppose to be spoofing and it doesn't work, it's very stupid and unfunny. The only one that kind of worked with this style, and only because it made fun of the movies it was going after(at times) was Date Movie. And the only times that Date Movie was funny was when it made a joke relevant to the movie it was making fun of. And this is the exact reason Not Another Teen Movie is so freaking hilarious. It's first rate writing, actually some brilliant writing, mixed with some pretty good acting believe it or not. There are no cheap laughs or pop culture b.s. within Not Another Teen Movie. Every movie Not Another Teen Movie plays off of, it makes some great observations and relevant inside jokes towards that movie that it's making fun of and because the jokes make sense in their relevant nature, it's hilarious. Not Another Teen Movie doesn't go for the cheap joke, it's written so good that it doesn't have to go for a cheap joke that doesn't make any sense. It makes fun of everything from American Pie to Never Been Kissed. It also makes fun of She's All That a lot. Not Another Teen Movie points out how obviously beautiful Rachael Leigh Cook's character was in She's All That and the writers drive that point home with the hilarious spoof they do on the scene about the bet of picking a girl to be this years homecoming queen. Then Not Another Teen Movie makes fun of Varsity Blues, and they drive home the fact of how ridiculous it was to leave Reggie Ray(his name wasn't Reggie Ray in Varsity Blues, but it's the same actor) on the field and they also make fun of how many concussions he has left until he goes into pretty much a coma. Then they drive home that fact with Reggie Ray even more when the coach says 'Can He play?' 'He's Unconscious.' 'But Can he Play?' 'I don't even think he can breathe.'And Not Another Teen Movie doesn't just stop there. It makes fun of the movie process altogether. As one of the football players on the field in Not Another Teen Movie has a jersey on that says on the back of it 'Extra'. Hilarious stuff. This movie goes so deep and rings true on all levels that it goes after. Every joke is pretty much a hit, where as nowadays with the spoofs that are made, every joke is pretty much a miss. Not Another Teen Movie spoofs a lot of popular movies and it points out the ridiculous nature of all of those popular movies and because that ridiculous nature rings true and makes sense(And that's been the main problem for the last 10 years on spoofs, they don't ring true or make sense to the movie they're making fun of/spoofing on), it makes Not Another Teen Movie a classic! And one of the top 10 spoofs, in my opinion, of all time.

oneguyrambling I never loved spoof movies, and since "Scary Movie" they have only gotten lazier and lazier. Someone needs to tell the writers that cramming in as many pop culture references as possible isn't a joke in itself.It used to be that a spoof movie would take a well known scene and take it in another direction, with ideally humorous results. Now it seems enough that we the audience say "oh they mean Hellboy", or "this is that bit from American Pie". It doesn't have to be funny apparently. Worse still is that we now seem to have such short attention spans that referencing a movie isn't necessary, simply a viral video or recent event.I guarantee that (if it hasn't already happened) the next spoof movie will include:Christian Bale's now infamous rant. - Sarah Palin. - Britney. Duh! (Not Paris, she's too powerful.) - Swine flu, only it has been spread through sex with pigs. - Somehow Barack Obama will appear, and breakdance.. (you know, because he is black.)And so on and so forth, if there is an obvious theme there it should be that EASY TARGETS are the norm (just like Eminem. Oooh he's having a go at Kim Kardashian, that'll cost him!).Anyway, now to review this piece of crap, and when I say piece of crap NATM is actually one of the better spoofs in the last decade, that doesn't stop it from sucking though.Alarm bells ring with Randy Quaid's name coming up in the credits, though as one of the leading ham actors around he is ideally suited to this throwaway genre.Set in a high school, there is no plot to speak of, only the plots of other teen movies of course. Put simply it copies all the movies where the hot guy must take a seemingly unpopular and ugly girl and make her popular and somehow attractive.The chicks are normally Charlise Theron, Jennifer Connelly types - hardly ugly ducklings - at least NATM knows this. But once they make this clear there aren't any more decent jokes to come from the premise.I'll try to list some of the jokes derived from stereotypes: - The undercover adult in school who is clearly 50+. - The American Beauty loner guy. - The young guys who wanna get laid. - The cheerleaders. - The eccentric but hopeless friend of the unpopular girl. - The bonehead but still popular football players. - And their coach who swears and shouts a lot. - The sexy exchange student, (who is nude the entire film).Now the three jokes I liked, and really the only three jokes I liked in the whole film.Rather than white guys pretending they're black, one white student spends the entire film pretending he is an Asian guy. (An amusing concept not used in an amusing way.)Every time something happens, a doofy looking guy tries to start a slow clap, only he never gets the support and embarrassingly must give up. (I hate the slow clap in the movies thing so I laughed, and as this was what the writer's aimed for I must give credit.)Mr T appears as the "wise janitor" with some sage advice and the A-Team music plays, although most people watching the film nowadays might think "Oh the guy from the Snickers' ad!", rather than a pop icon of the 80's.I liked the nude exchange student thing, but it wasn't funny after the initial second. So you might have to guess why I liked it. (Hint – I'm a guy.)What more to say, the female cast is hot-hot-hot, but who cares? Jaime Pressley is the only recognizable cast member who isn't making a "look at me" cameo, and she's hardly a big name aside from My Name is Earl.There are about five so called jokes in the movie that you can't see coming a mile off, and when you don't see the punchline it invariably fails or falls flat. I hate the insinuation that we as movie goers should find any of this funny but even the cookie cutter crap Epic Movie, Date Movie, Disaster Movie bullsh*t still make money for the assembly line hacks that make it and have the audacity to release it each year.The fact is I haven't seen many of the movies referenced in NATM, but it doesn't seem to matter as most of the time I knew what they were talking about and didn't just care.Perhaps if you actually love those movies you might find some joy here, if that is the case, you are a sad strange little man, and you have my pity.Final Rating – 4.5 / 10. Better than many similar films in the genre, but that in itself is the faintest of faint praise. Avoid all of these and tell Hollywood to stop making them.If you liked this (or even if you didn't) try oneguyrambling.com