Conclusion: Not Another Teen Movie?

Released in 2001, Not Another Teen Movie was released to a public that had become familiar to the point of exhaustion with the genre’s conventions. Along with other similarly-titled spoof films, including Scary Movie, Date Movie and Dance Flick, Not Another Teen Movie was intended as disposable fare that would capitalise on the vitality of teen movies in the 1990s whose popularity reached well beyond their intended youth audience. Not Another Teen Movie is a pastiche – both in the sense of a knowing imitation, and as an indiscriminate mish-mash of the teen movie’s typical attributes. Thus, the film is set at John Hughes High, in tribute to the veteran director, and the plot is loosely modelled on the makeover narrative of She’s All That while also incorporating elements from other recent teen movies.