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Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

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Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 69

NATM has some funny moments, but the movie requires the audience to have familiarity with the movies being spoofed and a tolerance for toilet and sexual humor to be truly effective.

Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 15

NATM has some funny moments, but the movie requires the audience to have familiarity with the movies being spoofed and a tolerance for toilet and sexual humor to be truly effective.

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Former MTV executive Joel Gallen makes his feature directorial debut with this broad spoof of the popular teen comedy genre, lampooning dozens of movies including American Pie (1999), American Beauty (1999), Bring It On (2000), Clueless (1995), She's All That (1999), Road Trip (2000), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Never Been Kissed (1999), and even the teen films of an earlier era such as The Breakfast Club (1985). At the aptly titled "John Hughes High School,"

Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Joel Gallen

Written By: Phil Beauman, Buddy Johnson

In Theaters: Dec 14, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Apr 30, 2002

Box Office:$37.9M

Columbia Pictures

A big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm clich�s that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years.

December 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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It's stupid, it's obvious, it's scatological and violent -- but it made me laugh and I'm giving it thumbs up, God help me.

December 18, 2001 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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More often than not you'll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing.

December 14, 2001 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Save your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home.

December 14, 2001 Comment

Rita Kempley

Washington Post

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The makers of Not Another Teen Movie should be embarrassed that, in parodying She's All That, they copied most of the plot and then made a movie that bogs down in the same places as the original.

December 14, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

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There simply isn't anything to say about it -- good or bad. Maybe that's because it isn't a movie at all, just a string of scenes.

December 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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Teenage Wasteland -- strictly for older teens.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Hollis Griffin

Common Sense Media

I can happily label this raunchy little spoof a hardcore "guilty pleasure" of the silliest kind.

July 31, 2005 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

Filmmakers showed great affection for the material they parodied and this is always an important ingredient for any successful parody.

June 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews

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Dragan Antulov

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...any flick that features Molly Ringwald as a woman who hates teenagers is okay in my books.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Uses the unwelcome Scary Movie method of spoof comedy, in which timing is ignored and jokes are prolonged and beaten to the point where they're just obvious, not funny.

July 7, 2003 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

It is obvious that the creative forces did not take the film to seriously and if you do not, you just might find yourself laughing along.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Gareth J. Von Kallenbach

Film Threat

...crude and unfunny, one of those movies that seem to be put together by cynical marketers who have reason to be convinced American moviegoers will laugh at - and celebrate - any movie that "dares" invoke scatological play and sexual titillation.

October 30, 2002 Full Review | Comment (1)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Plumbs new depths of offensiveness for its stomach-churning crudities.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

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Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

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This film actually surprisingly really made me laugh.

June 23, 2011

Bethany Murphy

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Great spoofs, hot girls, awesome soundtrack and a cameo by Mr.T. Yes, this movie has it all! Parodying teen flick classics such as The Breakfast Club, American Pie and 10 Things I hate About You, it's a pure joy to watch for a movie-buff like myself. If you get all the references, then you're in for a 80 minute laugh

April 12, 2007

Mike S

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Not Another Teen Movie Quotes

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1. Reggie Ray: Coach says it's okay to bleed from the ears.
– Submitted by Kyler D (5 months ago)
1. Amanda Becker: Do you think I sleep with every guy who writes me a letter? No. I give them hand jobs.
– Submitted by Kyler D (5 months ago)
1. Priscilla: You put the 'suck' in 'liposuction' You put the 'ooo' in 'jiu-jitsu' You put the 'ism' in 'This is all just a defense mechanism'.
– Submitted by Kyler D (5 months ago)
1. Girl at Party: Dude, you can't start a slow clap at any time and expect everyone to join in.
– Submitted by Kyler D (5 months ago)
1. Jake Wyler: No, no, no, no, anyone but her! Not... Janie Briggs! Guys, she's got glasses and a ponytail! Aw, look at that, she's got paint on her overalls, what is that?
– Submitted by Kyler D (5 months ago)