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.
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.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 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
rotten:
More often than not you'll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
14 Dec 2001
rotten:
Save your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
14 Dec 2001
rotten:
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.