Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

A sendup of all the teen movies that have accumulated in the past two decades.

Director:

Joel Gallen

Writers:

Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein,

Stars:

Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly

5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chyler Leigh	...	Janey Briggs
Chris Evans	...	Jake Wyler
Jaime Pressly	...	Priscilla
Eric Christian Olsen	...	Austin
Mia Kirshner	...	Catherine Wyler
Deon Richmond	...	Malik
Eric Jungmann	...	Ricky Lipman
Ron Lester	...	Reggie Ray
Cody McMains	...	Mitch Briggs
Sam Huntington	...	Ox
JoAnna Garcia Swisher	...	Sandy Sue (as Joanna Garcia)
Lacey Chabert	...	Amanda Becker
Samm Levine	...	Bruce
Cerina Vincent	...	Areola
Beverly Polcyn	...	Sadie Agatha Johnson

Storyline

At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake, takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy, that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl, into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest girl in school, and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader. And all of their friends are the same as any other teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student, Les, the beautiful weirdo, Malik, the token black guy, the desperate virgins, Amanda Becker, the perfect girl, Ricky, Janey's obsessed best friend, and Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter.

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Plot Keywords:

bet | prom | teen movie | school | cheerleader | 

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Taglines:

Forget Every Thing you Thought You Knew. Because this Christmas We're Changing ALL the Rules!

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong crude sexual content and humor, language and some drug content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 December 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Teen Movie

Filming Locations:

Rae's Restaurant, 2901 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$16,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$120,447 (Netherlands) (7 June 2002)

Gross:

£1,696,327 (UK) (14 June 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Original Film, Neal H. Moritz Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min 99 min (unrated director's cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Star Nathan West proposed to Chyler Leigh on set, while filming the "She's All That" scene.

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Goofs

Reflection in the mirror on the wall in studio still image 3.

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Quotes

Football Announcer: [not showing emotion] That has got to be the worst play I have EVER seen! *Ever*.

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Crazy Credits

Two bonus scenes at the end: Mr Briggs, in a parody of a scene from "American Pie", talks about a "three-way" while holding two pies. The albino folk singer sings about being blinded from her corneas burned out by the sun. (This scene comes after all the credits have finished.)

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Connections

Spoofs Any Given Sunday (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Oh Yeah"
Written by Boris Blank and Dieter Meier
Performed by Yello
Courtesy of Universal International Music, B.V.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Much better than expected

While it fails almost as often as it succeeds, there's so much going on here I couldn't help but like it. You REALLY have to be familiar with the material being spoofed, though. And part of the fun is ticking them all off in your mind if you're a movie geek like me.

NATM has two levels and target audiences. For teens who have seen all the recent flicks, it's a direct, Mad magazine style parody. For 30 somethings like me, it's an homage to the 80's flicks. The opening scene is an obvious "American Pie" spoof, but in a much more subtle way, it's drawing on "Sixteen Candles". To top it off, the scene is still funny even if you haven't seen either targets. Bruce (Sam Levine from Freaks & Geeks) is a parody of Seth Green's character in "Can't Hardly Wait", but he's also an homage to Long Duk Dong.

Several people have mentioned that kids probably haven't seen the old flicks and older people haven't seen the new ones. Well, if you're a kid, you don't need to have seen the old flicks to appreciate it as a broad parody. The 80's jokes tend to sit in the background- like the signs on the walls and the musical cues in the Molly Ringwald scene (which actually was a weak point IMO). And I've found that most people my age HAVE seen most of the newer teen movies. They came out just about the time we were starting to get married, buy houses, have real jobs. And they were a nice bit of nostalgia for our youth. Even if we didn't go pay $7.50 to see them, we've seen them on USA on saturday afternoon.

It's no accident the that soundtrack is almost entirely new, young bands doing covers of 80's songs.

As far as the gross-out factor goes, it's really not that bad. The filthy opening scene is forgivable because it's so dang funny. There is one gory joke on the football field. (A "Lucas" homage inside a "Varsity Blues" parody.) A sick unfunny scatalogical joke at the beginning of the movie pays off with a big laugh when it's turned around at the end. And the mother of all "poo" jokes is tempered by the fact that the victim is a delivering a tirade against "poo" jokes. And then there's granny's kiss- unfunny and nasty. But it's nowhere near the level of "Scary Movie". It's also nice to see a movie like this without any gay jokes or fat jokes. (There is a fat guy, but being fat isn't the joke.) Under the filth, this is a pretty gentle movie.

I avoided this when it came out, but another 30-something friend recommended it to me recently. I'd recommend it to anyone who old enough to have seen "Sixteen Candles" in a theatre...as long as you've seen most of the newer flicks as well.

Oh...LOVED the slow clap guy!