Not Another Teen Movie Reviews

Competing strongly for the title of the year's most puerile and vulgar film, Not Another Teen Movie makes a bottom-of-the-barrel rehash such as Scary Movie 2 look like an Oscar-worthy masterpiece. A lame combination of She's All That and Pretty in Pink, in which a popular teen makes a bet he can get the plainest girl to attend the prom with him, this pathetic excuse for humour reinforces every possible negative social stereotype. However, it's not just the usual tedious targets of overweight kids and bespectacled girls that we're encouraged to mock. Outdoing even the Farrelly brothers' gross-out antics, former MTV producer and first-time director Joel Gallen throws incest, aneurysms and an avalanche of human waste into the tasteless equation. Of course, as the title suggests, this is all supposed to be very clever and ironic. In truth, there's nothing of intelligence here, only a flaccid mess that should never have been made.

A movie with more writers than jokes, and those few involve flatulence and other bodily functions, so that it is indistinguishable from any other teen movie.

The natural habitat for gross-out humour is the classroom. Buff jock Jake (Evans) bets he can transform 16-year-old... read more on Time Out

Competing strongly for the title of the year's most puerile and vulgar film, Not Another Teen Movie makes a bottom-of-the-barrel rehash such as Scary Movie 2 look like an Oscar-worthy masterpiece. A lame combination of She's All That and Pretty in Pink, in which a popular teen makes a bet he can get the plainest girl to attend the prom with him, this pathetic excuse for humour reinforces every possible negative social stereotype. However, it's not just the usual tedious targets of overweight kids and bespectacled girls that we're encouraged to mock. Outdoing even the Farrelly brothers' gross-out antics, former MTV producer and first-time director Joel Gallen throws incest, aneurysms and an avalanche of human waste into the tasteless equation. Of course, as the title suggests, this is all supposed to be very clever and ironic. In truth, there's nothing of intelligence here, only a flaccid mess that should never have been made.

A movie with more writers than jokes, and those few involve flatulence and other bodily functions, so that it is indistinguishable from any other teen movie.

The natural habitat for gross-out humour is the classroom. Buff jock Jake (Evans) bets he can transform 16-year-old... read more on Time Out

"...A happy, nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years' worth of youth pictures..."