Not Another Teen Movie
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32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 11 out of 22
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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Perry
    75
    A clever satire that's layered like a breakfast club sandwich with sly in-jokes, sight gags, gross-out scenes, and, of course, requisite bathroom humor.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    A big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm clichés that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    70
    A happy, nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years' worth of youth pictures.
  4. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Gareth Von Kallenbach
    60
    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.
  5. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    Though it isn't so much funny as clever, the parody will hopefully discourage some aspiring teen-movie makers from doing the same old thing.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    To spend 82 minutes watching Not Another Teen Movie would be a reckless waste of your time, no matter how many decades you may have to burn.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    50
    It can't help but fall prey itself to a final deadly genre cliché: Its soundtrack outsparkles the movie.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Occasionally funny but ultimately desperate comedy.
  9. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    A raunchy romp through the peeping-Tomism, potty humor, raging hormones and social humiliation that are standard issue in the Hollywood high-school sex comedy.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    This scattershot comedy (which might be called "irreverent" if anyone actually revered movies like AMERICAN PIE) features vulgar gags at the expense of recent youth-oriented pictures.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    40
    Some routines are funny, it must be said. But more often than not, you'll be groaning with painful recognition rather than actually laughing.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    Toomuch of the humor in Not Another Teen Movie is either lame (the school in the movie is called "John Hughes High") or lamely disgusting.
  13. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    Formless, feckless, mindless, directionless and at times stunningly humorless.
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  14. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Ellen Kim
    33
    By the time a member of teen-movie royalty makes a cameo in the film's finale, Not Another Teen Movie has long exhausted any hope of succeeding. Instead it becomes, well, just another teen movie.
  15. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ron Stringer
    30
    Of course, this is just another teen movie -- with tons of dick jokes that don't know when to quit, and buckets of realistic-looking "excrement" splattered all over its "juvenile" cast, and even a couple of gags that actually fly.
  16. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robin Rauzi
    30
    That's not to say there aren't funny moments here. There are. Two, maybe three of them. But unless you're a hearty 14-year-old -- who of course is not supposed to be seeing this R-rated movie -- it's hardly worth fishing them out of the potty humor and repulsive sex talk.
  17. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Charles Savage
    25
    The cleverness begins and ends at the basic fact that it is being done. Really, it would be much more fun just to rent one of the originals.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    20
    A nail in the coffin if not the heart of teen comedies.
  19. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    11
    Aiming to break the land speed record for poop 'n' piss jokes.
  20. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    Proves that it's possible to make a movie so tasteless and so crude that audiences don't laugh. This is worthwhile information. It means there's a limit.
  21. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    0
    If there is a Hell, Not Another Teen Movie will be playing for all eternity on every screen there.
  22. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    0
    It took five men to concoct the hackneyed plot and conceive the brainless jokes that constitute Not Another Teen Movie, meaning there are five men in Los Angeles right now still trying to wash that stink off their soft, idle hands.

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User Score
6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 29
  3. Negative: 5 out of 29
  1. SpunkyMonkey
    10
    I've only seen a handful of the movies that this parodies, yet still find this one of the most funny and repayable stupid comedies out there. No American Pie morality, no underlying sub-plots, just pure stupid jokes, crammed in T&A and the odd offensive gag in there to add the slight edge here (although that is very underplayed). I absolutely love this film and the way it drags cheesy yank rom-coms down to the level of us every-day Joe's. A classic.… Full Review »
  2. GaborA.
    5
    Though it tries to make you think that it's spoofing teen comedies, the movie has unfortunatley become the very thing it sought to destroy.
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