Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie
Directed by	Joel Gallen
Written by	Mike Bender Adam Jay Epstein Andrew Jacobson Phil Beauman Buddy Johnson
Produced by	Neal H. Moritz
Starring	Chris Evans Chyler Leigh Jaime Pressly Eric Christian Olsen Mia Kirshner
Distributed by	Columbia Tri-Star / Sony Pictures
Release date	December 14 2001 (USA)
Running time	89 min.
Language	English

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 other films, including Grease, The Breakfast Club, Never Been Kissed, Cruel Intentions, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, American Pie, American Beauty, 10 Things I Hate About You, Can't Hardly Wait, Rudy, Bring It On, Better Off Dead, Varsity Blues, Road Trip, and Clueless.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The movie starts with Jake Wyler (Chris Evans), the school jock/Mr. Popular, being dumped by his girlfriend Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), the bitchy cheerleader. After he is dumped, he ends up making a bet with his friends that he can make Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), the apparently homely but uniquely rebellious girl, into prom queen but inadvertently falls in love with her. Meanwhile Ricky (Eric Jungmann), Janey's best friend who is also in love with her, tries to fight for her affection. In the end, Jake turns Janey into the "perfect girl" but she finds out about his bet and runs away. Both Jake and Ricky chase her but Ricky gets hit by several bicycles, and then a bus. Jake catches up with Janey, professes his love and they live happily ever after. Janey's younger brother Mitch, seems to get into mischief with his two friends, Ox and Bruce, and ends up going with Amanda Becker (Lacey Chabert).

Characters

The movie has many clichéd characters throughout the movie. See Stock character.

• Jake Wyler (Chris Evans), the popular jock
• Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), the pretty ugly girl
• Austin (Eric Christian Olsen), the cocky blonde guy, a parody of Paul Walker's character in She's All That
• Ricky Lippman (Eric Jungmann), Janey's obsessed best friend, a parody of Jon Cryer's Duckie in Pretty in Pink
• Malik (Deon Richmond), the token black guy
• Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), the bitchy cheerleader
• Catherine Wyler (Mia Kirshner), the cruelest girl in school, primarily based on Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in Cruel Intentions.
• Areola (Cerina Vincent), the naked foreign exchange student, an adaption of the foreign exchange student Nadia in American Pie.
• Les (Riley Smith), the beautiful weirdo, a parody of Wes Bentley's character in American Beauty.
• Amanda Becker (Lacey Chabert), the dream girl a parody of Jennifer Love Hewitt in Can't Hardly Wait
• Mitch Briggs (Cody McMains), the desperate virgin, a slight reference to Kevin Meyers character in American Pie
• Ox (Sam Huntington), the sensitive guy, a parody of Chris Klein's character in American Pie
• Bruce (Samm Levine), the wannabe, a parody of Seth Green's character in Can't Hardly Wait.
• Reggie Ray (Ron Lester), the fat, dumb, football player, who plays a parody of himself from the film Varsity Blues.
• The Coach (Ed Lauter), the aggressive, cursing football coach, mostly inspired from Varsity Blues.

Other stars include Randy Quaid (playing the father of Janey and Mitch) and Beverly Polcyn (playing Sadie Agatha Johnson, an undercover reporter posing as a high school student, 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, who starred in Save the Last Dance
• Lyman Ward, who starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Molly Ringwald, who was featured in many of John Hughes' 1980s teen movies, appears as the flight attendant at the airport
• China Shavers, from the teen drama Boston Public
• Mr. T is the wise janitor, another cliched character

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

Spoofs

This is a list of films which are parodied in Not Another Teen Movie.

• Almost Famous: Janey's declaration of "Being a Golden God(dess)".
• Airplane!: The red/white zone gag at the airport.
• American Beauty: Les is modeled after the character Ricky Fitts and is always gazing into his camcorder as he obsessively strives to capture the beauty in everyday life. He never appears without a tragic plastic bag labeled "the most beautiful thing in the world" floating nearby.
• American Pie: Mr. Briggs having a three-way with two pies. The oath to lose virginity. Janey masturbating and her family walking in on her.
• Back to the Future: Parodying Biff Tannen, the character Austin at one point says "I say we make like a tree and... branch" The original line is "So, why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?"
• Bring It On: Cheerleading routines
• Better Off Dead: Bicyclists screaming, "Two dollars!"
• Can't Hardly Wait: the character Amanda Becker (Lacey Chabert) is a parody of Jennifer Love Hewitt's character Amanda Beckett
• Clueless: Priscilla's posse - a redhead, a blonde, and a black girl.
• Cruel Intentions: Catherine Wyler teaching "second base". The incestuous relationship between Catherine and Jake.
• Dead Poets Society: In a scatological spoof of Mr. Keating's first poetry lesson, where he ridicules Dr. J. Evans Pritchard's theories about measuring poetry as "Excrement!", scenes of an English class are cross-cut with those of a plumbing catastrophe brewing immediately upstairs.
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High: "I DON'T KNOW" on the chalkboard; The song, "Somebody's Baby".
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The same house used in this movie; a banner "SAVE FERRIS" in the cafeteria
• Grease: "Hand Jive" during the dance scene, the character Sandy Sue.
• Jawbreaker: Prisilla and her friends walking down the school hallway to the tune of "Yoo Hoo" by Imperial Teen
• Lucas: Jake relives his traumatized football game through flashbacks, that involved the death of a fellow player: a scrawny underdog with thick glasses that just wanted to play.
• Never Been Kissed: The undercover reporter
• Pleasantville: The new student with Tourette's Syndrome, Sandy Sue, is a take on Sandy from Grease and the female characters from Plesantville.
• Porky's: The guys finding a way to look into the girls' locker room. Also, the opening scene could be a spoof on PeeWee Morris.
• Pretty in Pink: The song "If You Leave" played by the prom band; Ricky parodies Ducky
• Risky Business: As Mr. and Mrs. Wasserstein leave their house to go away for several days, they give their son Preston a few last-minute reminders. They do not notice at all the busy preparations that their good little boy is making (including shouting directions to the men delivering the sound system) to their house for an orgy of partying. Also, there is a championship banner hanging in the gym during the cheerleading tryouts, for the sport of "Crystal Egg Tossing, 1983".
• Road Trip: Mitch, Ox, and Bruce embark on a road trip which takes them to Preston's party two houses away. The "French Toast" line spoofs the diner scene
• Rudy: When Marty goes in to the game, the crowd is cheering "MARTY" like "RUDY". Guy starts a slow clap as the football player in Rudy does. The wise janitor, besides being a parody of Mr. T, can be considered a parody of the Fortune the janitor.
• Save the Last Dance
• She's All That: The main plot of the movie
• Sixteen Candles: Janey and Mr. Briggs's father-daughter conversation on the sofa; "Anthony Michael Dining Hall" references Anthony Michael Hall. Ricky parodies Anthony Michael Hall by showing obsession for Janie.
• Star Wars: Mr T's final appearance is as a disembodied head in front of a blue background, encouraging the main character at a crucial point in the movie.
• 10 Things I Hate About You: "10 Things I Love About Janey" poem'; the serenade in the football field; The Father choosing the lifestyles of the daughters; "No dating until your older sister does".
• The Breakfast Club: The library scene; "Richard Vernon" was a character in both movies; Mitch's hairstyle in the library scene.
• The Faculty: The two guys that look like Zeke Tyler played by Josh Hartnett and Stan Rosado played by Shawn Hatosy.
• The Goonies: The Fratelli twins is the name of Mama Fratelli's sons.
• The Karate Kid: A line from this movie is allegedly used at the end
• Varsity Blues: the football scenes, Ron Lester parodies himself, Jake angrily tells his father "I don't want your life!"

Trivia

• The name of the high school in the film was John Hughes High School. This was a reference to John Hughes, director of many teen movies from the '80s.
• 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.
• The cafeteria was called the Anthony Michael Dining Hall. This is a reference to Anthony Michael Hall, actor in many teen movies of the '80s.
• 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. This may also be a reference to the spoof of gangsta films, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood which cobbled together its title from other genre films such as Menace II Society and Boyz N the Hood.
• The Fratelli Siamese twins (Samaire Armstrong and Nectar Rose) are named in reference to Mama Fratelli and her sons from The Goonies.
• This movie uses a replica of the library that was used in The Breakfast Club, as well as the same house that was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson were two of the writers of Scary Movie

Soundtrack listing

The soundtrack features rock artists from the 90's and 2000's, mostly covering songs from the 80's:

1. "Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones, popularized by Soft Cell) - Marilyn Manson
2. "Never Let Me Down Again" (Depeche Mode)- Smashing Pumpkins
3. "Blue Monday" (New Order)- Orgy
4. "The Metro" (Berlin)- System Of A Down
5. "But Not Tonight" (Depeche Mode) - Scott Weiland
6. "Message of Love" (The Pretenders) - Saliva
7. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (New Order) - Stabbing Westward
8. "99 Red Balloons" (Nena) - Goldfinger
9. "I Melt With You" (Modern English) - Mest
10. "If You Leave" (OMD) - Good Charlotte
11. "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (The Smiths) - Muse
12. "Somebody's Baby" (Jackson Browne) - Phantom Planet

Songs in the film that are not on the CD soundtrack include:

1. "Turning Japanese" (The Vapors) - The Revs
2. "Oh! Yeah" (Yello) - original version
3. "Janie's Got a Gun" (Aerosmith) - sung by an actor Chris Evans in a cappella
4. "The A*Team Theme"
5. "My Hero" (Foo Fighters) - original version
6. "Lets Go" (The Cars)
7. "I Want Candy" (Bow Wow Wow) - Good Charlotte
8. "Kiss Me" (Sixpence None the Richer)
9. "Don't You Forget About Me" (Simple Minds) - Sprung Monkey
10. Yoo Hoo" (Imperial Teen)
11. "Rebel Girl" (Bikini Kill)
12. "Rock Star" (Everclear)

External links

• Not Another Teen Movie at IMDb
• Not Another Teen Movie at Rotten Tomatoes