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Year: 2001
Director: Joel Gallen
Plot: Former MTV executive Joel Gallen makes his feature directorial debut with this broad spoof of the popular teen comedy genre, lampooning dozens of movies including American Pie (1999), American Beauty (1999), Bring It On (2000), Clueless (1995), She's All That (1999), Road Trip (2000), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Never Been Kissed (1999), and even the teen films of an earlier era such as The Breakfast Club (1985). At the aptly titled "John Hughes High School," aspiring artist Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh) is an outcast because of her plain, bespectacled looks and paint-splattered overalls. Football hero Jake Wyler (Chris Evans) makes a bet that he can transform Janey into a gorgeous prom queen, a wager he may come to regret as he discovers Janey's true inner beauty. As their relationship blossoms, several other characters are limned, including a Nasty Cheerleader (Jaime Pressly), a Token Black Guy (Deon Richmond), a Stupid Fat Guy (Ron Lester), an Obsessed Best Friend (Eric Jungmann), an Undercover Reporter (Beverly Polcyn), the Cruelest Girl in School (Mia Kirshner), a Cocky Blonde Guy (Eric Christian Olsen), and several others. A nod to the multiple films that inspired it, Not Another Teen Movie (2001) was originally to have been entitled "Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait to Be Kissed." ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:42:42 GMTNot Another Teen Movie2001Joel GallenFormer MTV executive Joel Gallen makes his feature directorial debut with this broad spoof of the popular teen comedy genre, lampooning dozens of movies including <a href=/films/134328/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>American Pie</a> (1999), <a href=/films/134793/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>American Beauty</a> (1999), <a href=/films/151615/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Bring It On</a> (2000), <a href=/films/92274/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Clueless</a> (1995), <a href=/films/130513/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>She's All That</a> (1999), <a href=/films/140466/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Road Trip</a> (2000), <a href=/films/118356/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Can't Hardly Wait</a> (1998), <a href=/films/132091/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>10 Things I Hate About You</a> (1999), <a href=/films/132093/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Never Been Kissed</a> (1999), and even the teen films of an earlier era such as <a href=/films/4362/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Breakfast Club</a> (1985). At the aptly titled "John Hughes High School," aspiring artist Janey Briggs (<a href="/players/P___302165/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Chyler Leigh</a>) is an outcast because of her plain, bespectacled looks and paint-splattered overalls. Football hero Jake Wyler (<a href="/players/P___302167/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Chris Evans</a>) makes a bet that he can transform Janey into a gorgeous prom queen, a wager he may come to regret as he discovers Janey's true inner beauty. As their relationship blossoms, several other characters are limned, including a Nasty Cheerleader (<a href="/players/P___239140/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jaime Pressly</a>), a Token Black Guy (<a href="/players/P____60123/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Deon Richmond</a>), a Stupid Fat Guy (Ron Lester), an Obsessed Best Friend (Eric Jungmann), an Undercover Reporter (Beverly Polcyn), the Cruelest Girl in School (<a href="/players/P____38536/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mia Kirshner</a>), a Cocky Blonde Guy (<a href="/players/P___275344/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Eric Christian Olsen</a>), and several others. A nod to the multiple films that inspired it, Not Another Teen Movie (2001) was originally to have been entitled "Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait to Be Kissed." ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide21Tag Target (>10)2362http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t62676npsb2.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Not_Another_Teen_Movie/201794/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/clownman70360/archive/2008/11/15/37344.aspx Post By: clownman70360
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Post Date: 11/15/2008 1:21:33 PM
Body: This movie was the best ever,i really loved it,i got that on dvd,the next spoof comedy movie goes horror,i gonna write a story called:Another Slasher Movie is a gruesome,raunchy,grossed-out horror comedy,about a group of zany,bumbling wannabe serial killers are tried to terrorized a group of slacker teenagers on halloween in this sendup of scariest slasher films such as:The Strangers,Halloween,Urban Legend,See No Evil,High Tension,Black Christmas,Scream,Friday the 13th,Death on Demand,Dark Ride,The Slumber Party Massacre,Psycho,My Bloody Valentine,Candyman,I Know What You Did Last Summer,Knock Knock and Stay Alive.I hope everyone love this
]]>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:21:33 GMTclownman70360clownman70360 Blog11/15/2008 1:21:33 PMThis movie was the best ever,i really loved it,i got that on dvd,the next spoof comedy movie goes horror,i gonna write a story called:Another Slasher Movie is a gruesome,raunchy,grossed-out horror comedy,about a group of zany,bumbling wannabe serial killers are tried to terrorized a group of slacker teenagers on halloween in this sendup of scariest slasher films such as:The Strangers,Halloween,Urban Legend,See No Evil,High Tension,Black Christmas,Scream,Friday the 13th,Death on Demand,Dark Ride,The Slumber Party Massacre,Psycho,My Bloody Valentine,Candyman,I Know What You Did Last Summer,Knock Knock and Stay Alive.I hope everyone love this http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/19/25336.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/19/2008 4:01:08 PM
Body: As a former fat guy, I have to salute actor Ron Lester, who went on the Today Show yesterday showing off his slim figure (see the segment here). You may remember Lester as the really, really fat high school football player “Billy Bob” from Varsity Blues, or his identical character from Not Another Teen Movie. Back in 2001, he lost 315lbs. — 43lbs. of it extra skin that had to be removed — and even lost 2 inches worth of height (thanks to the weight lost from his head). He did this by gastric bypass surgery and it was primarily for heath reasons, but damn if he doesn’t look much better, too. The problem is, according to the person submitting this story to Fark.com, he may now be handsomer but he may also have cost himself his acting career. Obviously he had been employed in the past for his physique more than his acting talent, and now he’s missing that thing that guaranteed his being hired (his only significant movie post-surgery was Karate Dog). Certainly he’d rather be alive, though, than typecast. It’s not like he just went out and got plastic surgery thinking he’d be better off in an industry obsessed with good looks. But I did immediately think of Jennifer Grey and Meg Ryan as two prime examples of how physical changes, which were intended to be favorable, ended up more damaging career-wise. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:01:08 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/19/2008 4:01:08 PMAs a former fat guy, I have to salute actor Ron Lester, who went on the Today Show yesterday showing off his slim figure (see the segment here). You may remember Lester as the really, really fat high school football player “Billy Bob” from Varsity Blues, or his identical character from Not Another Teen Movie. Back in 2001, he lost 315lbs. — 43lbs. of it extra skin that had to be removed — and even lost 2 inches worth of height (thanks to the weight lost from his head). He did this by gastric bypass surgery and it was primarily for heath reasons, but damn if he doesn’t look much better, too. The problem is, according to the person submitting this story to Fark.com, he may now be handsomer but he may also have cost himself his acting career. Obviously he had been employed in the past for his physique more than his acting talent, and now he’s missing that thing that guaranteed his being hired (his only significant movie post-surgery was Karate Dog). Certainly he’d rather be alive, though, than typecast. It’s not like he just went out and got plastic surgery thinking he’d be better off in an industry obsessed with good looks. But I did immediately think of Jennifer Grey and Meg Ryan as two prime examples of how physical changes, which were intended to be favorable, ended up more damaging career-wise. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/kickstandsup/archive/2008/1/21/24183.aspx Post By: kickstandsup
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Post Date: 1/21/2008 11:28:16 PM
Body: I don't know why, but I have watched this movie about 20 times. There are some really funny parts to this and each time I watch it, I see something else. Cheerleader with terrets, the guys sister - wow.. talk about a chick that needs an intervention, football players concussion, the girl in the toilet, etc... Ok. this may sound sexist, but it is definitely a guy movie.
]]>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:28:16 GMTkickstandsupkickstandsup Blog1/21/2008 11:28:16 PMI don&#39;t know why, but I have watched this movie about 20 times. There are some really funny parts to this and each time I watch it, I see something else. Cheerleader with terrets, the guys sister - wow.. talk about a chick that needs an intervention, football players concussion, the girl in the toilet, etc... Ok. this may sound sexist, but it is definitely a guy movie. http://www.spout.com/blogs/gradysghost/archive/2007/5/19/9024.aspx Post By: GradysGhost
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Post Date: 5/19/2007 8:06:00 AM
Body: Have you ever seen Murder By Death? I have. I watched it last night. It's a "dinner-and-a-murder" caper written by Neil Simon. Really, it's almost a spoof of capers, but that's a hard call to make because capers are spoofs of murder mysteries. Or homages. One of the two.Where's the distinction? Where does one cross the line between spoof and homage. Lemme go to the dictionary.My Dictionary tells me that homage (which can be pronounced "hom-ij" or "ohm-azh") is "respect or reverence paid or rendered" and that a spoof is "a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody." So the difference is respect?I beg to differ. A spoof can be respectful. Look at The Naked Gun: From the FIles of Police Squad. The Zuckers and Jim Abraham (ZAZ as they have been known to be called) are clearly poking fun at cop movie and TV shows (since Naked Gun started out as Police Squad, a thirty-minute television program that only lasted six episodes). But I think they do it respectfully. As in the source material, the Naked Gun series' Frank Drebin always gets the bad guy at the last second, usually at gunpoint, and always gets the girl (who is always Jane). Even though the films tend to disparage police since the main character is a bumbling idiot, they never seem to forget where they came from.Often with spoofs - and this has become painfully obvious lately with disasters like Date Movie and Epic Movie - entire scenes from original material will be played out by different actors. One scene in Scary Movie (title trend duly noted, guys) even mentions that it's all just a scene from another movie. How respecful is that? If I recall, they even mention that movie's title - Scream, of course. If respect had been eliminated from Scary Movie, I would probably have been the first to flare up in anger considering Scream is one of my all-time favorites, and probably one of the most brilliant horror films ever (I'll be talking about metafiction soon, methinks).In regards to homage, I'll provide the example Shaun of the Dead. Two unsuspecting losers find themselves hungover in a town full of stupid, slow zombies. The film pays respects to just about any zombie flick that came before it, most notably Night of the Living Dead. The title, after all, is a play on one of Night's sequels and was probably a play on the popularity of Stuart Gordon's zombie flick released about the same time, Dawn of the Dead. The difference between Shaun of the Dead and The Naked Gun (besides the fundamental fact that we're comparing cop movies to zombie features; I would compare it to Hot Fuzz, but I have yet to see it and it's just not fair to compare movies you haven't seen)? Shaun of the Dead was executed more stylistically similar to the films it credits. The Naked Gun series, indeed most of ZAZ's combined and individual efforts, have a style of their own.Also, when you laugh at Naked Gun or Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie, you're usually laughing at the idea that they really are making fun of something. When you laugh at Shaun of the Dead, you're not. The jokes are original.Maybe that's the root of it all - a spoof and an homage are really the same thing with only one difference. A spoof needs to be funny (or attempt to be). An homage does not.Humor doesn't hurt, as Quentin Tarantino has shown us. I laugh when I watch Kill Bill. Because it's a direct throwback to other movies that people adore and despise as much as any other, yet it feels so comfortable and natural to watch it. You don't feel bad about laughing the way you do when you laugh at movies like Spider-man 3 in the middle of a theater full of people who seem to be actually enjoying it seriously (cue caterpillar-esque lip-quiver).Tarantino is a writer/director, though who makes me question his originality. Does he actually write original screenplays and direct original movies when so much of each film he makes is grounded in movies made before his birth? Does that make him derivative? All he seems to do is make homages to other directors, but I like them all the same, even if I didn't like the movies they're referencing. That must have something to do with the true nature of homage, then. There's got to be something original in it. I guess I would say that Tarantino is original by way of being derivative. There's enough there to say, "This is just like that one movie!" but enough there to say, "This is definitely a Tarantino film."Wow. I got pretty far astray from where I started here.Murder By Death - spoof or tribute? Hard to say.Not to spoil the movie if you've never seen it, but at the very end, after all five detectives (who are all based strongly on other famous fiction detectives - Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, et al) make their wagers on the killer, and the butler is revealed to be Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), Twain actually stands up to reveal his motive was to get back at all the terrible endings to mystery novels and movies ("where the killer is a character who hasn't even been introduced until five pages from the end"), a screenwriting move that makes Twain's character completely break free of the realm of the movie. Never before had it been mentioned that the detectives were actually based on other fictional characters. You just assumed it. Because it's a spoof. Or an homage. Or something. It is this pivotal moment in the film that makes me unable to determine whether Murder By Death is simply farce or tribute. The fact that Lionel Twain is played by Truman Capote - a real-life novelist who even wrote a book called In Cold Blood which was a real-life murder mystery - convolutes my brain with thoughts of metafiction (will get to discuss this later when my thoughts subside a bit).Because of the lack of distinction here, I can't give this movie anything but a mediocre rating. But it really did make me think. Something that most comedies can't make me do.I'm all confused. Anybody have thoughts on this?
]]>Sat, 19 May 2007 12:06:00 GMTGradysGhostGradysGhost Blog5/19/2007 8:06:00 AMHave you ever seen Murder By Death? I have. I watched it last night. It&#39;s a "dinner-and-a-murder" caper written by Neil Simon. Really, it&#39;s almost a spoof of capers, but that&#39;s a hard call to make because capers are spoofs of murder mysteries. Or homages. One of the two.Where&#39;s the distinction? Where does one cross the line between spoof and homage. Lemme go to the dictionary.My Dictionary tells me that homage (which can be pronounced "hom-ij" or "ohm-azh") is "respect or reverence paid or rendered" and that a spoof is "a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody." So the difference is respect?I beg to differ. A spoof can be respectful. Look at The Naked Gun: From the FIles of Police Squad. The Zuckers and Jim Abraham (ZAZ as they have been known to be called) are clearly poking fun at cop movie and TV shows (since Naked Gun started out as Police Squad, a thirty-minute television program that only lasted six episodes). But I think they do it respectfully. As in the source material, the Naked Gun series&#39; Frank Drebin always gets the bad guy at the last second, usually at gunpoint, and always gets the girl (who is always Jane). Even though the films tend to disparage police since the main character is a bumbling idiot, they never seem to forget where they came from.Often with spoofs - and this has become painfully obvious lately with disasters like Date Movie and Epic Movie - entire scenes from original material will be played out by different actors. One scene in Scary Movie (title trend duly noted, guys) even mentions that it&#39;s all just a scene from another movie. How respecful is that? If I recall, they even mention that movie&#39;s title - Scream, of course. If respect had been eliminated from Scary Movie, I would probably have been the first to flare up in anger considering Scream is one of my all-time favorites, and probably one of the most brilliant horror films ever (I&#39;ll be talking about metafiction soon, methinks).In regards to homage, I&#39;ll provide the example Shaun of the Dead. Two unsuspecting losers find themselves hungover in a town full of stupid, slow zombies. The film pays respects to just about any zombie flick that came before it, most notably Night of the Living Dead. The title, after all, is a play on one of Night&#39;s sequels and was probably a play on the popularity of Stuart Gordon&#39;s zombie flick released about the same time, Dawn of the Dead. The difference between Shaun of the Dead and The Naked Gun (besides the fundamental fact that we&#39;re comparing cop movies to zombie features; I would compare it to Hot Fuzz, but I have yet to see it and it&#39;s just not fair to compare movies you haven&#39;t seen)? Shaun of the Dead was executed more stylistically similar to the films it credits. The Naked Gun series, indeed most of ZAZ&#39;s combined and individual efforts, have a style of their own.Also, when you laugh at Naked Gun or Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie, you&#39;re usually laughing at the idea that they really are making fun of something. When you laugh at Shaun of the Dead, you&#39;re not. The jokes are original.Maybe that&#39;s the root of it all - a spoof and an homage are really the same thing with only one difference. A spoof needs to be funny (or attempt to be). An homage does not.Humor doesn&#39;t hurt, as Quentin Tarantino has shown us. I laugh when I watch Kill Bill. Because it&#39;s a direct throwback to other movies that people adore and despise as much as any other, yet it feels so comfortable and natural to watch it. You don&#39;t feel bad about laughing the way you do when you laugh at movies like Spider-man 3 in the middle of a theater full of people who seem to be actually enjoying it seriously (cue caterpillar-esque lip-quiver).Tarantino is a writer/director, though who makes me question his originality. Does he actually write original screenplays and direct original movies when so much of each film he makes is grounded in movies made before his birth? Does that make him derivative? All he seems to do is make homages to other directors, but I like them all the same, even if I didn&#39;t like the movies they&#39;re referencing. That must have something to do with the true nature of homage, then. There&#39;s got to be something original in it. I guess I would say that Tarantino is original by way of being derivative. There&#39;s enough there to say, "This is just like that one movie!" but enough there to say, "This is definitely a Tarantino film."Wow. I got pretty far astray from where I started here.Murder By Death - spoof or tribute? Hard to say.Not to spoil the movie if you&#39;ve never seen it, but at the very end, after all five detectives (who are all based strongly on other famous fiction detectives - Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, et al) make their wagers on the killer, and the butler is revealed to be Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), Twain actually stands up to reveal his motive was to get back at all the terrible endings to mystery novels and movies ("where the killer is a character who hasn&#39;t even been introduced until five pages from the end"), a screenwriting move that makes Twain&#39;s character completely break free of the realm of the movie. Never before had it been mentioned that the detectives were actually based on other fictional characters. You just assumed it. Because it&#39;s a spoof. Or an homage. Or something. It is this pivotal moment in the film that makes me unable to determine whether Murder By Death is simply farce or tribute. The fact that Lionel Twain is played by Truman Capote - a real-life novelist who even wrote a book called In Cold Blood which was a real-life murder mystery - convolutes my brain with thoughts of metafiction (will get to discuss this later when my thoughts subside a bit).Because of the lack of distinction here, I can&#39;t give this movie anything but a mediocre rating. But it really did make me think. Something that most comedies can&#39;t make me do.I&#39;m all confused. Anybody have thoughts on this? http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/3/9/6218.aspx Post By: MovieBabe
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Body: Did you hear about the blond couple who froze to death at the drive-in? They went to see Closed for Winter. What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? "Dam." The above jokes -- which make me laugh every time -- are an appropriate introduction to the year's worst cinematic disasters for the following reasons: (1) The first is my favorite movie-related joke, (2) both indicate that I'm easily amused, and (3) the punch line of the second has typically been my reaction when I learn of the films I've been assigned to review. It's been a dismal year at the movies, from disappointing summer fare (how do you make Pearl Harbor boring?) to so-so independents and foreign films that have been successful simply because people are tired of feeling so bad (Amelie? Cute, but about 20 minutes too long). Then there are the no-name, no-plot groaners that I get stuck with, this year's unusually high number of which is attributable to either frantic green-lighting during the threat of a writers' strike or my getting old. I've had to sit through the worst of the worst, ranging from so-bad-they're-funny to so-bad-I'm-pissed. According to the numbers, many of you have wisely avoided this dreck at the theaters, but let this serve as a warning that the worst 10 movies of 2001 do not even a Blockbuster night make. I started to rank these in order of hatefulness, with No. 1 being the, um, lowest, but after the first few the badness is pretty much uniform: 1. Tomcats: A group of undesirable guys doing undesirable things to way-too-desirable-for-them women. In other words, Penthouse Forum come to life. Oh, and Jerry O'Connell and Jake Busey are the slimiest leading men ever. 2. Say It Isn't So: A heartfelt story about the trials faced when one sleeps with his sister. (Let's hope no one sat in the theater thinking, It's funny because it's true!) And could someone please tell me how Chris Klein broke into Hollywood? 3. 3000 Miles to Graceland: You get Vegas, you get cool criminals, you get Elvis. Yet this seeming sure shot quickly degenerates into as much of an unsightly mess as a bloated, hopped-up King after too many peanut-butter-and-nanner sandwiches. Kevin Costner -- I could stop right here, couldn't I? -- plays the baddest Elvis of a gang of five thievin' impersonators, and once the rather stylish casino robbery ends and the rampant bloodshed begins, you simply count down the minutes until all the Elvii have finally left the building. 4. See Spot Run: Drug busts and severed testicles -- but for kids! Even the sight of David Arquette covered in dog doo isn't worth the price of a rental. 5. Glitter: The most reasonable explanation for Mariah Carey's emotional breakdown. 6. Sweet November: Keanu Reeves as a mover-and-shaker ad exec? Please. And with all due respect to Charlize Theron's loveliness, you just can't act that crazy and still get the guy. A restraining order, maybe. (Then again, perhaps it's hard for a guy to find someone who also enjoys walking on the beach to Enya.) This 30-days-of-love-therapy cheesefest -- complete with the revealing of terminal-illness secrets -- is so leaden that it even takes away your ability to enjoy Reeves' bumbling attempts to emote toward the end. 7. Summer Catch: You think watching an entire baseball game on TV is boring? You'll never find less exciting play -- on or off the field -- than in this Freddie Prinze Jr.-led rip-off of Bull Durham, which ends with Prinze's full-of-promise pitcher abandoning a no-hitter to go after the girl -- with the smiling support of his teammates. Worst...ending...#ever. 8. AntiTrust: Though Ryan Phillippe's golden curls and empty, pretty face were much better suited to the flesh fair that was 54, it's kind of fun to watch him concentrating really hard as he connects the dots in this Bill Gates-gone-bad anti-thriller. But Phillippe as Super Genius, Tim Robbins as Evil Computer Man, and Claire Forlani as the Most Boring Girlfriend Ever ultimately leave you feeling that the only dangers awaiting Phillippe are carpal tunnel syndrome and eyestrain. 9. Shallow Hal: I'm not sensitive, and I'm not large, but this is one insulting movie. You've got men whose jackassery prevents them from seeking any but the most stunning women and women who are judged by looks alone, but in the end it's the gals who are pitied and deemed in need of rescue. 10. The Wedding Planner: OK, so a lot of my female friends liked this fluff about the loneliest wedding planner of them all. I was game until Jennifer Lopez -- looking as Jennifer Lopez does -- gives up on finding love after one rejection and decides to agree to an arranged marriage with a cousin she previously couldn't stand, thinking it's her only way to happiness. Way to role-model, J. Lo. But, as I said, I'm easily amused. So even when I walk out of an assigned movie thinking that maybe I should grab one of those Work at Home! fliers on the way to the Metro, I can find something worthwhile amid the film's awfulness to make up for my trauma. In an effort to put a positive spin on this year's collection of otherwise horrible flicks -- this is the season of giving, after all -- here are some little ways in which these bombs excel: The In-a-Nutshell Award for Best Unintentional Criticism "He's pretty honest with his feelings. I don't think he knows how to act" (AntiTrust, said about Phillippe). Gaggiest Gag A tie: A wayward testicle that's chased through a hospital and ends up in someone's dessert (Tomcats) and a shit explosion when a toilet -- complete with the gassy girl who is occupying it -- crashes through the floor to the classroom below (Not Another Teen Movie). The Thank-God-for-Big-Girls Teen-Choice Award Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, whose shower scene and cat suits persuaded little boys everywhere to stop fucking around with video games and work on finding Dad's Playboy collection (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). Best Use of a Non-Jiggly Body Part to Hold Audience Interest The raven-haired Emmanuelle Chriqui, whose follicular stylings blessedly took the focus off her lame boy-band co-stars (On the Line). The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living Award for Best Philosophizing "It's weird. Three days ago, I had a phat job and not a worry in the world -- and now I'm going to turn into a vampire" (The Forsaken). And, finally: Best Keanu-as-Himself Moment Since Bill & Ted Eulogizing a 9-year-old as "a little man; just a boy, really" (Hardball).
]]>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:29:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog3/9/2007 7:29:00 PMDid you hear about the blond couple who froze to death at the drive-in? They went to see Closed for Winter. What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? "Dam." The above jokes -- which make me laugh every time -- are an appropriate introduction to the year&#39;s worst cinematic disasters for the following reasons: (1) The first is my favorite movie-related joke, (2) both indicate that I&#39;m easily amused, and (3) the punch line of the second has typically been my reaction when I learn of the films I&#39;ve been assigned to review. It&#39;s been a dismal year at the movies, from disappointing summer fare (how do you make Pearl Harbor boring?) to so-so independents and foreign films that have been successful simply because people are tired of feeling so bad (Amelie? Cute, but about 20 minutes too long). Then there are the no-name, no-plot groaners that I get stuck with, this year&#39;s unusually high number of which is attributable to either frantic green-lighting during the threat of a writers&#39; strike or my getting old. I&#39;ve had to sit through the worst of the worst, ranging from so-bad-they&#39;re-funny to so-bad-I&#39;m-pissed. According to the numbers, many of you have wisely avoided this dreck at the theaters, but let this serve as a warning that the worst 10 movies of 2001 do not even a Blockbuster night make. I started to rank these in order of hatefulness, with No. 1 being the, um, lowest, but after the first few the badness is pretty much uniform: 1. Tomcats: A group of undesirable guys doing undesirable things to way-too-desirable-for-them women. In other words, Penthouse Forum come to life. Oh, and Jerry O&#39;Connell and Jake Busey are the slimiest leading men ever. 2. Say It Isn&#39;t So: A heartfelt story about the trials faced when one sleeps with his sister. (Let&#39;s hope no one sat in the theater thinking, It&#39;s funny because it&#39;s true!) And could someone please tell me how Chris Klein broke into Hollywood? 3. 3000 Miles to Graceland: You get Vegas, you get cool criminals, you get Elvis. Yet this seeming sure shot quickly degenerates into as much of an unsightly mess as a bloated, hopped-up King after too many peanut-butter-and-nanner sandwiches. Kevin Costner -- I could stop right here, couldn&#39;t I? -- plays the baddest Elvis of a gang of five thievin&#39; impersonators, and once the rather stylish casino robbery ends and the rampant bloodshed begins, you simply count down the minutes until all the Elvii have finally left the building. 4. See Spot Run: Drug busts and severed testicles -- but for kids! Even the sight of David Arquette covered in dog doo isn&#39;t worth the price of a rental. 5. Glitter: The most reasonable explanation for Mariah Carey&#39;s emotional breakdown. 6. Sweet November: Keanu Reeves as a mover-and-shaker ad exec? Please. And with all due respect to Charlize Theron&#39;s loveliness, you just can&#39;t act that crazy and still get the guy. A restraining order, maybe. (Then again, perhaps it&#39;s hard for a guy to find someone who also enjoys walking on the beach to Enya.) This 30-days-of-love-therapy cheesefest -- complete with the revealing of terminal-illness secrets -- is so leaden that it even takes away your ability to enjoy Reeves&#39; bumbling attempts to emote toward the end. 7. Summer Catch: You think watching an entire baseball game on TV is boring? You&#39;ll never find less exciting play -- on or off the field -- than in this Freddie Prinze Jr.-led rip-off of Bull Durham, which ends with Prinze&#39;s full-of-promise pitcher abandoning a no-hitter to go after the girl -- with the smiling support of his teammates. Worst...ending...#ever. 8. AntiTrust: Though Ryan Phillippe&#39;s golden curls and empty, pretty face were much better suited to the flesh fair that was 54, it&#39;s kind of fun to watch him concentrating really hard as he connects the dots in this Bill Gates-gone-bad anti-thriller. But Phillippe as Super Genius, Tim Robbins as Evil Computer Man, and Claire Forlani as the Most Boring Girlfriend Ever ultimately leave you feeling that the only dangers awaiting Phillippe are carpal tunnel syndrome and eyestrain. 9. Shallow Hal: I&#39;m not sensitive, and I&#39;m not large, but this is one insulting movie. You&#39;ve got men whose jackassery prevents them from seeking any but the most stunning women and women who are judged by looks alone, but in the end it&#39;s the gals who are pitied and deemed in need of rescue. 10. The Wedding Planner: OK, so a lot of my female friends liked this fluff about the loneliest wedding planner of them all. I was game until Jennifer Lopez -- looking as Jennifer Lopez does -- gives up on finding love after one rejection and decides to agree to an arranged marriage with a cousin she previously couldn&#39;t stand, thinking it&#39;s her only way to happiness. Way to role-model, J. Lo. But, as I said, I&#39;m easily amused. So even when I walk out of an assigned movie thinking that maybe I should grab one of those Work at Home! fliers on the way to the Metro, I can find something worthwhile amid the film&#39;s awfulness to make up for my trauma. In an effort to put a positive spin on this year&#39;s collection of otherwise horrible flicks -- this is the season of giving, after all -- here are some little ways in which these bombs excel: The In-a-Nutshell Award for Best Unintentional Criticism "He&#39;s pretty honest with his feelings. I don&#39;t think he knows how to act" (AntiTrust, said about Phillippe). Gaggiest Gag A tie: A wayward testicle that&#39;s chased through a hospital and ends up in someone&#39;s dessert (Tomcats) and a shit explosion when a toilet -- complete with the gassy girl who is occupying it -- crashes through the floor to the classroom below (Not Another Teen Movie). The Thank-God-for-Big-Girls Teen-Choice Award Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, whose shower scene and cat suits persuaded little boys everywhere to stop fucking around with video games and work on finding Dad&#39;s Playboy collection (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). Best Use of a Non-Jiggly Body Part to Hold Audience Interest The raven-haired Emmanuelle Chriqui, whose follicular stylings blessedly took the focus off her lame boy-band co-stars (On the Line). The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living Award for Best Philosophizing "It&#39;s weird. Three days ago, I had a phat job and not a worry in the world -- and now I&#39;m going to turn into a vampire" (The Forsaken). And, finally: Best Keanu-as-Himself Moment Since Bill &amp; Ted Eulogizing a 9-year-old as "a little man; just a boy, really" (Hardball). http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/3/9/6217.aspx Post By: MovieBabe
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Body: Shit and giggles: That's literally all Not Another Teen Movie has to offer, though the former is what you're more likely to remember after leaving the theater. A parody of recent teen flicks -- She's All That, Bring It On, and Cruel Intentions are the biggest targets -- Not Another Teen Movie takes place at John Hughes High (including the Anthony Michael Dining Hall) and focuses on the bet that cool guy Jake (Chris Evans) can't turn glassed nerd girl Janey (Chyler Leigh) into a prom queen. Supporting players include Jake's sister, Catherine (Mia Kirshner, a Sarah Michelle Gellar sound-alike), who will help him win Janey's heart only if he'll also give her some not-so-brotherly love, a group of dorks who are trying to score before year's end, and a cadre of bitchy cheerleaders. With all cliches firmly in place -- and actually rather funny on their own -- Not Another Teen Movie proceeds to lead you on as shamelessly as the high school tease: The humor is tame in true teen-movie fashion, poking appropriate fun at the genre (including jokes such as "She can't be prom queen! She's got glasses and a ponytail!" and a Caucasian cheerleading squad performing a we-swear-it's-not-stolen routine that boasts, "We ain't white! We ain't white!"), and then it's suddenly crude, explicit, and well beyond the limits of taste. A dainty girl on a toilet in the moments before a crap explosion elicits none of the nervous laughs of Jeff Daniels' Turbo Lax moment in Dumb & Dumber, and a football player being torn at the torso and left on the field in two bloody heaps doesn't exactly fit any definition of parody. The frequent Hughes references, though funny in a hey-I-remember-that kind of way, will most likely go over the heads of Not Another Teen Movie's logical audience -- but perhaps that's what all the excrement, masturbation, and booby jokes are for.
]]>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:25:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog3/9/2007 7:25:00 PMShit and giggles: That&#39;s literally all Not Another Teen Movie has to offer, though the former is what you&#39;re more likely to remember after leaving the theater. A parody of recent teen flicks -- She&#39;s All That, Bring It On, and Cruel Intentions are the biggest targets -- Not Another Teen Movie takes place at John Hughes High (including the Anthony Michael Dining Hall) and focuses on the bet that cool guy Jake (Chris Evans) can&#39;t turn glassed nerd girl Janey (Chyler Leigh) into a prom queen. Supporting players include Jake&#39;s sister, Catherine (Mia Kirshner, a Sarah Michelle Gellar sound-alike), who will help him win Janey&#39;s heart only if he&#39;ll also give her some not-so-brotherly love, a group of dorks who are trying to score before year&#39;s end, and a cadre of bitchy cheerleaders. With all cliches firmly in place -- and actually rather funny on their own -- Not Another Teen Movie proceeds to lead you on as shamelessly as the high school tease: The humor is tame in true teen-movie fashion, poking appropriate fun at the genre (including jokes such as "She can&#39;t be prom queen! She&#39;s got glasses and a ponytail!" and a Caucasian cheerleading squad performing a we-swear-it&#39;s-not-stolen routine that boasts, "We ain&#39;t white! We ain&#39;t white!"), and then it&#39;s suddenly crude, explicit, and well beyond the limits of taste. A dainty girl on a toilet in the moments before a crap explosion elicits none of the nervous laughs of Jeff Daniels&#39; Turbo Lax moment in Dumb &amp; Dumber, and a football player being torn at the torso and left on the field in two bloody heaps doesn&#39;t exactly fit any definition of parody. The frequent Hughes references, though funny in a hey-I-remember-that kind of way, will most likely go over the heads of Not Another Teen Movie&#39;s logical audience -- but perhaps that&#39;s what all the excrement, masturbation, and booby jokes are for. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Loved-It/MemberTagFilms.aspxLoved-It
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