I left with an overwhelming feeling of what might have been -- not a lot unlike, I suppose, the high school experience itself.
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12/25/01
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Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
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Reviews Counted:94
Fresh:26
Rotten:68
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $37,882,551
Synopsis: In his feature film directorial debut, Joel Gallen spoofs the ever-popular teen genre. The students of John Hughes High School live the plot lines of numerous teen flicks, including SHE'S ALL THAT,... [More]
Starring: Chris Evans, Chyler Leigh, Lacey Chabert, Sam Huntington
Director: Joel Gallen
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Reviews for Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie is Hollywood's answer to the Whoopee Cushion.
12/21/01
Spotty, only slightly inspired and occasionally amusing fluff.
12/20/01
A big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm clichés that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years.
12/20/01
Top CriticWhat Scream did for horror movies, this movie does for 80’s - 2001 teen movies, with a great soundtrack.
12/18/01
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.
12/18/01
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12/18/01
Unlike Young Frankenstein, Airplane or the first Naked Gun, Not Another Teen Movie fails to stick to a story and carry it through to the end.
12/18/01
If you have a high tolerance for unblinking gross-out gags and you love making fun of Freddie Prinze Jr. flicks, odds are you'll have a good time with this one.
12/17/01
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12/15/01
Perhaps the most tasteless comedy ever aimed at a multiplex. At least until the sequel.
12/15/01
Half the jokes in this one are funny and work, while the rest are unfunny and lame.
12/15/01
There is, apparently, a very fine line between parody and suckiness. Spoof films, by definition, take ideas one step further than their predecessors. Not Another Teen Movie goes an extra couple steps, and it all comes off as frantic desperation.
12/14/01
More like a game, with checklist of the stereotypes and classic teen film scenarios, than it is a movie.
12/14/01
How do you take jabs at things that were supposed to be comical in nature to begin with? Not Another Teen Movie never quite figures out the answer to this.
12/14/01
If you look hard enough, you will find the inner beauty within Not Another Teen Movie. You will win the big football game, and become prom queen, too.
12/14/01
More often than not you'll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing.
12/14/01
Top CriticSave your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home.
12/14/01
Top CriticJoel Gallen (who created the MTV Movie Awards) and screenwriters Michael G. Bender, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson all seem to have labored under the delusion that alluding to pop-cultural tropes is inherently comical.
12/14/01
Despite an occasional laugh here and a chuckle there -- comes off as a hit or miss endeavor that unfortunately has more of the latter and never comes close to kicking into comedic overdrive.
12/14/01
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