On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
The makers of Not Another Teen Movie should be embarrassed that, in parodying She's All That, they copied most of the plot and then made a movie that bogs down in the same places as the original.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Dec 2001
rotten:
Save your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
14 Dec 2001
rotten:
More often than not you'll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
14 Dec 2001
fresh:
It's stupid, it's obvious, it's scatological and violent -- but it made me laugh and I'm giving it thumbs up, God help me.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
18 Dec 2001
fresh:
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.