Rent Not Another Teen Movie on Amazon Video (paid link)
Written by: Mike Bender & Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson and Phil Beauman & Buddy Johnson (written by)
Directed by: Joel Gallen
Starring: Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, Lacey Chabert
Rated: R
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Plot
Parodying the teen movies from the '80s and '90s, a football player at John Hughes High School makes a bet to turn a bespectacled artist into a prom queen.
Verdict
This is raunchy slapstick type humor. While it takes aim at all the teen romance movies, the humor is on the nose, and this raunchy slapstick style of comedy has faded from popularity. You need to have seen a lot of the 90s teen movies to even begin getting some of the jokes.
Skip it.
Review
This uses She's All That as a basis to skewer teen movies. It hits the stereotypes hard as that's what parody movies do. It's the dumb comedy you'd expect with plenty of slapstick and raunchy humor. It's a less clever Naked Gun, and this genre stopped getting made. I'd argue Youtube took the place of this type of comedy.
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| Chris Evans plays Jake. |
It not only parodies popular '90s movies, but also rips character names directly from them. This makes fun of the genre while almost requiring its audience to be very familiar with the genre. There isn't a story here, it's just scenes copy and pasted from other movies. If you like gross out, over the top movies, this is a great example. Movies like this stopped being made in the 2000s, and it's apparent why.
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| Chyler Leigh plays the female protagonist. |
The movie requires very little thought with such a thin plot. The jokes rely on shock value, while making fun of how dumb other teen movies are. It's a strange goal to make fun of movies in the genre by attempting to be even dumber. It does have some great cameos though.
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