Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Joel Gallen

Writers (WGA):

Mike Bender (written by) &
Adam Jay Epstein (written by) ...

Release Date:

14 December 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The Teen Mother Of All Movies!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Bet | Prom | School | Foreign Exchange Student | Cheerleader

Awards:

4 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Nov. 8	9:00 PM	MTV
Mon. Nov. 9	1:00 AM	MTV

Cast

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	...	Sandy Sue
Lacey Chabert	...	Amanda Becker
Samm Levine	...	Bruce
Cerina Vincent	...	Areola
Beverly Polcyn	...	Sadie Agatha Johnson

Also Known As:

Sex Academy (Europe: English title) (new title)
Teen Movie (USA) (working title)
Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait to Be Kissed (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M (TV rating) | Germany:16 (director's cut) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (British Columbia/Ontario) | Canada:18A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Malaysia:18PL | Finland:K-15 (director's cut) | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | USA:TV-PG (heavily edited) | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:R(A) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM14 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:11 | Philippines:R-18 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

4160 Country Club Drive, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Eric Christian Olsen's character is a spoof of Dean from She's All That (1999) (the guy that makes the bet) and Lance from Varsity Blues (1999), both of whom were played by Paul Walker originally.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the two boys are both after the girl, one of them runs across the street, then he dodges through cars. When one of the cars stop, the car in the left hand corner of the screen seems to be a face of a Chevorlet Metro. But when that car stops and beeps its horn, its horn is off audio. Chevy Metro's have a high pitched horn. Chevy Metro's don't have a regular car horn audio.

Quotes:

Catherine: That's it! I did it. I'm a miracle worker!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Not Another B Movie (2009)

Soundtrack:

Let's Begin (Shoot the Sh**)

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!