Not Another Teen Movie 2001

Critics score:
28 / 100

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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Not only is it consistently clever, but it has respect for many of the movies it lampoons. Read more

Charles Savage, Miami Herald: Like the generations it entertains, the vitality of the teen movie genre waxes and wanes. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: It can't help but fall prey itself to a final deadly genre cliche: Its soundtrack outsparkles the movie. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's stupid, it's obvious, it's scatological and violent -- but it made me laugh and I'm giving it thumbs up, God help me. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Stupid, offensive entertainment delivered with nothing more than a smirk is still stupid and offensive. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Not Another Teen Movie is a happy, nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years' worth of youth pictures. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: This parody of teen comedies is just teen comedy by the numbers, for those who can only count to three. Read more

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Robin Rauzi, Los Angeles Times: The jokes are overlong and lean heavily on the most obvious and most raunchy. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A breath of fresh, frisky air, even if it does hinge on cliches. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Crass, misogynistic, homophobic and racist, it lacks finesse, originality and humor. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm cliches that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Along with this venial sin of simple redundancy, the picture commits the less pardonable crime of commercial irrationality. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's a bad sign that the features Not Another Teen Movie is parodying are funnier than the movie itself. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It was not good to see yet still more wretched excess in the jokes about characters being sprayed with vast quantities of excrement. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The makers of Not Another Teen Movie should be embarrassed that, in parodying She's All That, they copied most of the plot and then made a movie that bogs down in the same places as the original. Read more

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