Title:
Not Another Teen Movie
Released: 2001
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 89 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Plot
Summary: At John Hughes High School, the
students are the same as just about every other teenager
in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake (Chris Evans),
takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy (Eric
Christian Olsen), that he can transform Janey, the
pretty ugly girl (Chyler Leigh), 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 (Mia Kirshner), and Priscilla,
the bitchy cheerleader (Jaime Pressly). And all of
their friends are the same as any other teen movie:
Areola, the naked foreign exchange student (Cerina
Vincent), Les, the beautiful weirdo (Riley Smith),
Malik, the token black guy (Deon Richmond), the desperate
virgins (Cody McMains, Samm Levine, and Sam Huntington),
Amanda Becker, the perfect girl (Lacey Chabert), Ricky,
Janey's obsessed best friend (Eric Jungmann), and
Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter (Beverly Polcyn).
Comments:
I
love this movie. Comedy, let alone good parody, is
difficult to master. This film is a great lampoon
of teen movies from the last twenty years: The Breakfast
Club, Pretty in Pink, Cruel Intentions, She's All
That, Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie... and that's
not all of them. The writers manage to weave the film
parodies into a "standard" teen movie storyline
that delivers serious laughs. Heck, there's even a
fabulous musical number. The cast does a fantastic
job of adapting to the previous actors' portrayals
of the characters they're spoofing (the best of them
all being Mia Kirshner as The Cruelest Girl). If you
like parody and teen movies, check it out.
