Quinoa1984 Review of Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Basic juvenile humor, sometimes funny, sometimes just too stupid

[6/10 · 16 December 2001]

Not Another Teen Movie is a, uh, it might just be another teen movie, except this one is directed by Joel Gallen, one of the guys at MTV, so it is a teen movie except with that MTV humor edge to it (plus R rating). It spoofs movie that in their own way are already funny on their own, so parodying them is not only difficult but lame. That's why a good chunk of this movie doesn't work. However, when Not Another Teen Movie does work its laughs, it is actually funny (the Randy Quaid scenes, Breakfast Club spoof, certain parts of the party sequence are the funniest parts. Overall, it's OK, but it would've been funnier if it was made 5 years ago, or if I was 5 years younger. Mr.T, Melissa Joan Hart, Molly Ringwald and Paul Gleason appear in cameos (Mr. T would've been funnier if he had better dialogue). B