But this isn’t a typical teen movie, this is a lampooning of them so of course every character is self-referential and overtly aware of their role in this charade.Īfter being dumped by his popular cheerleader girlfriend Jake takes on a bet, from his blonde preppy nemesis Austin, to transform the weird artsy girl into prom queen.
There’s the ‘Popular Jock’ Jake (Chris Evans), the ‘Pretty Ugly Girl’ Janey (Chyler Leigh), the ‘Nasty Cheerleader’ Priscilla (Jaime Presley) the ‘Token Black Guy’ Malik (Deon Richmond) and the ‘Obsessed Best Friend’ Ricky (Eric Jungmann), every stock character you could need to fulfil the typical narrative of a teen movie.
This is where our ragtag group of ‘teens’ reside. Welcome to John Hughes high school, a place where stereotypes run rampant and nobody actually ever learns anything. Do I find myself constantly drawn back to it? Hell yeah! So throw on your best going out poncho and the lowest rise jeans you can find, grab your mini-disc players and crank up Marilyn Manson’s cover of Tainted Love and journey back with me back to 2001. Is this pick shrouded in childhood nostalgia? Of course! Is it actually a good movie? Debatable. However, there were still definitely a few gems in this category that stood out, particularly the first Scary Movie and my pick for this month’s guilty pleasure film, Not Another Teen Movie. We saw films like Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It and Disaster Movie (which ironically didn’t seem to parody any disaster films…). Then came the 00’s and the 10’s, and the parody film seemed to change, becoming more skit like with numerous famous scenes from a particular genre of film being spoofed and woven together to create its own Frankenstein parody movie instead of an original narrative. They really began to hit their stride in the 70’s with the Carry On franchise and then took on a life of their own in the 80’s and 90’s with classics such as Spaceballs, Airplane!, and This is Spinal Tap. Porter spoof his own movie The Great Train Robbery by recreating it with an all child cast Bugsy Malone style. Parody films have been around since the dawn of cinema, starting with the short silent film The Little Train Robbery, which saw director Edwin S.
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