NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE

'''Not Another Teen Movie''' is a film released in 2001 by Sony Pictures. It is a parody of the teen movies and other cinematic portrayals of adolescence which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades. While the general plot is based on ''She's All That'', the film is also packed with allusions to numerous other films. The film was panned by critics, receiving only 28% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Contents

Plot

Characters

Cameo roles

Trivia

Soundtrack listing

See also

References

External links

Plot

Set in a stereotypical high school community, the movie’s plot opens when Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), a popular cheerleader, separates from her boyfriend, Jake Wyler (Chris Evans). After discovering that Priscilla is now dating a strange and socially inept person just to spite him, one of Jake’s friends Austin (Eric Christian Olsen) suggests seeking retribution by making Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), a "uniquely rebellious girl", the prom queen. Jake attempts to court Janey's love, but faces adversity from his own sister, who is sexually attracted to him, Janey’s unnoticed admirer and best friend, and memories from his past football career. Jake's seductive older sister, Catherine (Mia Kirshner), eventually decides to help her brother by slightly altering Janey’s appearance, ultimately making her more attractive to the other characters.
As the prom draws near, Jake draws infamy among his peers after he fails to lead his football team to victory at the state championship game. The situation is further worsened when his rival Austin tricks Jake into telling Janey about his plan to spite Priscilla by pretending to whisper the secret bet in Janey's ear, causing her to immediately leave Jake. During prom night, Janey eventually attempts to leave her troubles behind by leaving the country, and pursuing her life-long goal of being an artist in an art school in Paris. Jake eventually confronts her before she can board the plane, and uses a plethora of cliched lines from other movies to convince her to stay in America.

Characters

The movie has many clichéd characters throughout the movie, many deliberately acting as one-dimensional characters that parody other teen films. ''See Stock character.''

★ 'Jake Wyler' (Chris Evans), (The Popular Jock); based on Freddie Prinze, Jr.'s character Zach Siler in ''She's All That'' as well as Jake Ryan in ''Sixteen Candles'', James Van Der Beek's character in ''Varsity Blues'', and Andrew McCarthy's character in Pretty In Pink''.

★ 'Janey Briggs' (Chyler Leigh), (The Pretty Ugly Girl) with her ponytail, glasses and paint-covered overalls, primarily a parody of Rachael Leigh Cook's character Laney Boggs in ''She's All That'', as well as Molly Ringwald's character Andie Walsh in ''Pretty In Pink'' and Julia Stiles's character in ''10 Things I Hate About You''.

★ 'Austin' (Eric Christian Olsen), (The Cocky Blonde Guy), a parody of Paul Walker's character Dean Sampson in ''She's All That'', Aaron Dozier's character in ''Better Off Dead'', James Spader as Steff in ''Pretty in Pink'', and another character played by Paul Walker, Lance Harbor from ''Varsity Blues''.

★ 'Ricky Lipman' (Eric Jungmann), (The Obsessed Best Friend) a parody of Jon Cryer's Duckie in ''Pretty in Pink''. He is Janey's best friend who is also madly (and explicitly) in love in her, though Janey remains completely clueless (the only person in the school apparently ''not'' aware of his love for her).

★ 'Malik' (Deon Richmond), (The Token Black Guy), a reference to Dule Hill's character Preston in ''She's All That''

★ 'Priscilla' (Jaime Pressly), (The Bitchy Cheerleader) and the most popular girl at school, based on Taylor Vaughn (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) in ''She's All That'' and a reference to Big Red (Lindsay Sloane) in ''Bring It On'', Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) in ''Heathers'', and Rose McGowan in ''Jawbreaker''.

★ 'Catherine Wyler' (Mia Kirshner), (The Cruelest Girl in School), who also wants to have sex with her brother, Jake. Primarily based on Kathryn Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), in ''Cruel Intentions''. She is also partially based on the character of Mackenzie Siler from ''She's All That''.

★ 'Areola' (Cerina Vincent), (The Naked Foreign Exchange Student), an adaptation of the foreign exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) in ''American Pie''. Her name is also the word for the ring around the nipple. She appears naked in every scene in which she appears, although no one seems to notice.

★ 'Les' (Riley Smith), (The Beautiful Weirdo) always seen with a video camera, a parody of Wes Bentley's character in ''American Beauty''. There is also a floating bag that follows him around, referencing the bag floating in the wind from ''American Beauty''.

★ 'Amanda Becker' (Lacey Chabert), (The Dream Girl), a parody of Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, Amanda Beckett, in ''Can't Hardly Wait''.

★ 'Mitch Briggs' (Cody McMains), (The Desperate Virgin), a parody of geek character actor Anthony Michael Hall, especially as the desperate Ted in ''Sixteen Candles''. Mitch is also a slight reference to Thomas Ian Nicholas' character, Kevin Myers, in ''American Pie'', and he is also based on John Bender from ''The Breakfast Club'' and Kieran Culkin's character from ''She's All That''.

★ 'Ox' (Sam Huntington), (The Sensitive Guy), a parody of Chris Klein's character, Chris Ostreicher, in ''American Pie'', and Emilio Estevez's character of Andrew Clark from ''The Breakfast Club''.

★ 'Bruce' (Samm Levine), (The Wannabe), a parody of Seth Green's character in ''Can't Hardly Wait'' and/or Ralph Macchio's character in The Karate Kid series, and/or Gedde Watanabe's Long Duk Dong character from ''Sixteen Candles''.

★ 'Reggie Ray' (Ron Lester), (The Stupid Fat Guy) who apparently has several concussions throughout the film. He is a parody of Lester's character from the film ''Varsity Blues''.

★ 'The Coach' (Ed Lauter), the aggressive, cruel and obscene football coach, mostly inspired from Jon Voight's character in ''Varsity Blues''.
Other stars include Randy Quaid who plays the father of Janey and Mitch. There is also Beverly Polcyn who plays Sadie Agatha Johnson. She is an undercover reporter posing as a high school student despite being well past sixty, a parody of ''Never Been Kissed''.

Cameo roles

Many stars of recent teen movies as well as those highlighting the 1980s decade make credited and uncredited appearances. These include:

★ Melissa Joan Hart, who starred in teen movies ''Drive Me Crazy'', ''Can't Hardly Wait'', and ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''

★ Paul Gleason, reprising (and parodying) his "Richard Vernon" role from ''The Breakfast Club''

★ Sean Patrick Thomas, played a part in ''Save the Last Dance'' and ''Cruel Intentions'', is also in a scene involving the token black guy.

★ Lyman Ward, who starred in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', plays Jake Wyler's father.

★ Molly Ringwald, who was featured in many of John Hughes' 1980s teen movies, appears as the rude flight attendant at the airport.

★ China Shavers, from the teen drama ''Boston Public'', plays a rival cheerleader.

★ Mr. T is the wise janitor, another clichéd character

★ Kyle Cease, who played Bogey Lowenstein in ''10 Things I Hate About You'', plays the slow clap guy.

★ The actors who play Molly Ringwald's grandparents in ''Sixteen Candles'' play a cameo at the beginning.

★ The band Good Charlotte also has a cameo as the live band playing at the school's prom.

★ Paul Goebel, the geek from Beat the Geeks, appears as the waiter who ejaculated into Mitch's French toast.

Trivia

★ There are references to John Hughes movies in the names of the school facilities: The school itself is called "John Hughes High", the football stadium name is "Harry Dean Stadium" - a tribute to Harry Dean Stanton who played Molly Ringwald's father in ''Pretty in Pink'', not Harry Dean, and the cafeteria is called "Anthony Michael Dining Hall" - a tribute to Anthony Michael Hall who appeared in ''Sixteen Candles'' and ''The Breakfast Club''.

★ The film's US working title was '''10 Things I Hate about Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait To Be Kissed''', a portmanteau of ''10 Things I Hate about You'', ''Clueless'', ''Road Trip'', ''Can't Hardly Wait'' and ''Never Been Kissed''.

★ Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson were two of the writers of ''Scary Movie''. The theatrical trailer for this film states, "If you liked ''Scary Movie'', who gives a shit?"

★ The high school mascot is the "Wasps," the acronym version of which describes stereotypical white people, many of whom can be found in teen movies.

★ The character Malik, or "The Token Black Guy" can be seen with at least seven radically different hairstyles of varying lengths throughout the entire film.

★ Several of the actors (as their characters) had cameos in the clip for Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson, which was featured on the movie's soundtrack.

★ The famous kissing scene is a parody of the same scene in Cruel Intentions

★ The prom, an event which is held at the end of the school year, takes place only a few days after the football season ends in the movie. Football is in the fall (beginning of school year) and prom is in the spring (end of school year). This goof, however is intentional just to show the stereotypes of teen movies as at the beginning of the movie a sign says that Orientation (beginning of the school year) is on Monday and Prom is on Friday.

★ There is a lot of alternate footage/dialogue and cuts for its air on American Television, including all references to Catherine wanting Jake, and many censored scenes with Sandy Sue and Areola, and a considerable amount was taken out of prom musical number for no reason and during the prom, its racy dance scenes were removed. The 2 most cut versions to date are aired on MTV and ABC Family, and the least cut version airs on Comedy Central

★ The movie is known as "Sex Academy" on some releases in Europe.

★ There are numerous subtle set decorations in the movie to supplement the joke being made in the current scene (irony being the most common form). For example, in a scene at the beginning where Mitch asks quasi-rhetorically how they will lose their virginity by graduation, they hear an announcement over the P.A. system say, "The Sex Club will be meeting after school behind the bleachers." They also pass by posters that say: Abstinence doesn't work; trust us", "Condoms kill the sensation", and posters with tear-off phone numbers that say things like "Hot Sex - Call Judy" and "For Great Sex, Call Sue". As this occurs, Bruce says, "It not easy to get lucky here."

Soundtrack listing

The soundtrack features rock artists from the 90's and 2000s, mostly covering songs from the 80's: The CD was released by Maverick Records in 2001.
# "Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones, popularized by Soft Cell) - Marilyn Manson
# "Never Let Me Down Again" (Depeche Mode) - Smashing Pumpkins
# "Blue Monday" (New Order) - Orgy
# "The Metro" (Berlin) - System of a Down
# "But Not Tonight" (Depeche Mode) - Scott Weiland
# "Message of Love" (The Pretenders) - Saliva
# "Bizarre Love Triangle" (New Order) - Stabbing Westward
# "99 Red Balloons" (Nena) - Goldfinger
# "I Melt with You" (Modern English) - Mest
# "If You Leave" (OMD) - Good Charlotte
# "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (The Smiths) - Muse
# "Somebody's Baby" (Jackson Browne) - Phantom Planet
Songs in the film that are not on the CD soundtrack include:
# "Turning Japanese" (The Vapors) - Face to Face
# "Inbetween Days" (The Cure) - Face to Face
# "Oh Yeah" (Yello) - original version
# "Janie's Got a Gun" (Aerosmith) - sung by Chris Evans a cappella
# "The A-Team Theme" (Mike Post and Pete Carpenter)
# "My Hero" (Foo Fighters) - original version
# "Let's Go" (The Cars)
# "Prom Tonight" (Ben Folds, Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson) - Jake, Janey, Mitch, Ox, Bruce, Catherine, Priscilla, Mr. Briggs, Austin, Malik, Areola
# "I Want Candy" (Bow Wow Wow) - Good Charlotte
# "Kiss Me" (Sixpence None the Richer)
# "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (Simple Minds) - Sprung Monkey
# "Yoo Hoo" (Imperial Teen) - ("Yoo-Hoo" is heard briefly during Jaime Pressly's slow-motion entrance)
# "Rebel Girl" (Bikini Kill)
# "Rock Star" (Everclear)
# "If You Were Here" (Thompson Twins)
# "Can't Fight This Feeling" (REO Speedwagon) (Amanda's slow-motion entrance song)
# "Let's Begin (Shoot the Shit)" (Bad Ronald)
# "Let Me Clear My Throat" (DJ Kool)
# "True" (Spandau Ballet)

See also

★ ''Scary Movie'', a spoof on horror films

★ ''Epic Movie'', a spoof on epic films

★ ''Date Movie'', a spoof of date movies

★ ''Another Gay Movie'', a spoof of gay films, and coming of age films

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