"Not Another Teen Movie" came out in 2001 and is a parody of a lot the teen movies made from the 80's-2000's. Some of the movies they criticize are, "The Breakfast Club", "Pretty In Pink", and "Bring It On".
This movie takes scenes from the original movies, and makes of parody of what happens. For example, The main guy has to make the unpopular girl in school the prom queen. Before an important party, he goes to her house with his sister so his sister can make the unpopular girl "sexy".
The two girls go upstairs and the sister takes a close look at the main girl. She then preceeds to take off the girl's glasses and takes down her hair. The unpopular suddenly gets beautiful hair and looks good.
Another example is from "Bring It On". The cheerleading squad needs one more person so they have a try out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAK9AZlptx8&feature=related
This is a praody of Bring It On and also of how they have the nice 50's girls who are innocent. They show use the parody to make fun of cheerleaders by making them seem like idiots. Also, by giving the innocent girl terrets that makes her say dirty words, they are making fun of that kind of character.
this reminds me of the whole take off the nerdy girls glasses and she becomes the most beautiful girl ever thing. i think that movies like this are important because they challenge stereotypes that are so ingrained in our society, and shows people how stupid they are. because when you walk out of that movie, you think how stupid not just because of the story but because of how they expose stereotypes. and make the viewer who originally may have held those beliefs to question them
Posted by: dani K | 12/22/2011 at 11:34 PM