Not Another Teen Movie: Critic Reviews

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.

More often than not you'll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing.

Save your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home.

Many of the movie's targets are just too big and too obvious to elicit more than a smile of recognition, and the movie quickly degenerates into little more than a game of spot the (generally unfunny) reference for fans of the teen genre.

With so many gags coming at us so fast and furiously, some of them are bound to misfire. But, hey, that's OK: There's always another gag around the corner, and chances are it'll be funny.

Teenage Wasteland -- strictly for older teens.

Filmmakers showed great affection for the material they parodied and this is always an important ingredient for any successful parody.

...any flick that features Molly Ringwald as a woman who hates teenagers is okay in my books.

Uses the unwelcome Scary Movie method of spoof comedy, in which timing is ignored and jokes are prolonged and beaten to the point where they're just obvious, not funny.

It is obvious that the creative forces did not take the film to seriously and if you do not, you just might find yourself laughing along.

...crude and unfunny, one of those movies that seem to be put together by cynical marketers who have reason to be convinced American moviegoers will laugh at - and celebrate - any movie that "dares" invoke scatological play and sexual titillation.

Plumbs new depths of offensiveness for its stomach-churning crudities.

For anyone for whom these films are a guilty pleasure, this pretty much delivers in terms of silliness and over-the-top laugh attempts.

Not Another Teen Movie is a little like watching Christina Aguilera make fun of Britney Spears.

Not too bad as long as you know what you're getting into...

The targets may be obvious, but director Joel Gallen and his squad of screenwriters happen to be the first to open fire. They can't help but score plenty of hits.

One of the most incompetent, thoughtless, witless, smug, cynical, one-dimensional, puerile, boring and deadening movies I have ever seen.

No vale la pena gastar el dinero en un monumento a la estulticia y la superficialidad como es esta cinta.

Just when you think films have got as bad as they're ever going to be, along comes a picture that takes cinema to a whole new level of shoddiness.

Will you remember (it) six months after you see it? Probably not. But you will remember that you had a good time watching it.

This scattershot and dissolving satire accomplishes nothing more than recycling copycat material from the idiotic teen films of today and yesteryear it thinks it's skewering in savvy fashion.

Nothing here breaks new ground, but funny is funny is funny, and Joel Gallen's sly little movie is funny enough.

A blandly attractive cast, hit and miss jokes, excessive helpings of scatological humor, unsure direction? Sure seems like another teen movie to me.

We can proudly agree that it is indeed the most Obvious and Hypocritical comedy of 2001.

Almost immediately disposable, fading from memory before it even ends.