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Not Another Teen Movie
2001 89 min United States of America R 18+
★5.2
Comedy
Director: Joel Gallen
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Description
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Budget:
$16M
US Gross:
$38.25M
Worldwide:
$66.47M
Starring
Chyler Leigh
Actor
Jaime Pressly
Actor
Chris Evans
Actor
Awards
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2002
— Best Supporting Performance
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2002
— Best Kiss
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2002
— Best Quote
Key opinion
Not Another Teen Movie is widely regarded as a sharp and effective parody that successfully satirizes 1990s and 2000s teen tropes. While it receives praise for its cast—particularly Chris Evans—and its accurate cultural references, it remains a divisive film due to its reliance on vulgar, lowbrow humor that requires specific knowledge of the source material to appreciate.
| Acting | Chris Evans and the ensemble cast deliver surprisingly strong, charismatic performances that anchor the absurdity of the script. | |
| Originality | The film functions as a cohesive and clever satire of teen melodrama clichés, outperforming most of its genre contemporaries. | |
| Score | The soundtrack is consistently praised for effectively underscoring the comedic beats and action sequences. | |
| Accessibility | Accessibility is sharply polarized: fans of 90s teen cinema find the deep-cut references hilarious, while others find the film confusing or exclusionary without that specific cultural background. | |
| Humor | Opinion on the humor is split between those who view it as a successful, sharp parody and those who find its reliance on crude, juvenile, and vulgar tropes to be tasteless and uninspired. |