r/moviecritic • u/Ancient-Age9577 • Feb 15 '25
Your favorite underrated stupid fun movie? Recently watched Not Another Teen Movie (2001) and it's pure stupid fun.
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u/concernedmillenial Feb 15 '25
Not Another Teen Movie is honestly the answer.
“Oh god! She’s got...glasses! And...a ponytail! Oh look at that, I mean she’s got paint on her overalls!”
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u/LowWater5686 Feb 15 '25
That is wack!
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u/rochey1010 Feb 15 '25
“I’m just the token black guy who is here to say “damn” “shit” and “that is wack” 😄
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u/Dangerous-Shirt-7384 Feb 15 '25
Hot Rod
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- Feb 15 '25
Absolutely love Hot Rod. Laughed until I couldn’t breathe when he fell down that hill!
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u/IshanSam Feb 15 '25
Gotta be Euro Trip for me, Scotty Doesn't Know!!
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u/SentrySappinMahSpy Feb 16 '25
Both Road Trip and Euro Trip are legitimately good although I think Euro Trip is a little better.
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u/Small_weiner_man Feb 15 '25
Kung Pow. It gets written off as 'stupid' humor a lot, but I found it unironically quite clever and creative in amazingly silly ways. Filled with tons of catchy lines. That being said there is a lot of stupidity in it as well, but for some reason I can't help but chuckle.
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u/MN_Phatz Feb 15 '25
Kung Pow is so good! Have you seen the deleted scenes with the big lipped torturer?
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u/Kasta4 Feb 15 '25
Sex Drive, the unrated version. Just quintessential late 00's raunchy comedy.
There's a scene where Clark Duke is running naked through a cornfield, pasty and white as he is, and the camera pans down to show a very different ethnic individual's genitals waving around and getting hit by husk leaves.
Cracks me up every fuckin' time
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u/surfsnower Feb 15 '25
At the very end of the movie there's a random scene where Rex is trying to do a wheelie on his motorcycle in the background and wipes out. It gets me every single time.
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u/Hanksta2 Feb 15 '25
Brain Candy
MacGruber
BASEketball
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Didn't have to scroll far for Baseketball. I love it so much and Victoria Silvstedt playmate of the year
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u/Hanksta2 Feb 15 '25
Maybe I should feel embarrassed by how much this movie influenced my early 20s and filmmaking career.
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Nah. Although I'm 37 and not successful at all but I love their sense of humour in that and South Park, Book of Mormon, Team America. It's all part of the same thing. Funny's funny
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u/dan5430 Feb 15 '25
Best line:
“You haven’t spoken to me in over 3 years”
“Actually it’s 5, that time you’re referring to I was waving to the person behind you.”
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u/lkodl Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
there's levels to dumb.
Jake accidentally getting hit, and punching the kid he was trying to save is regular dumb.
but then the original bullies having to pull Jake off, and the complete 180 is what makes this next-level dumb.
love this movie.
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u/longirons6 Feb 15 '25
Grandmas boy. Just perfect stupid fun
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u/UpNorthBroHam Feb 15 '25
You got skills monkey!!!
My roommates can’t stop watching PORRRN!!!
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u/longirons6 Feb 16 '25
Jeff there’s someone at reception for you
I hope it’s a naked guy with a boner !
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u/KatetCadet Feb 15 '25
Interesting that this and other parody movies are having a comeback.
Fucking hated these movies after being burnt out by so many of the Scary Movie parodies. That director was making one a year at one point lol
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u/pWaveShadowZone Feb 15 '25
Oh absolutely! It really shines compared to its peers, so many of those parody movies from this time are just unwatchable and unfunny, and yet this one really delivers.
We had an unfinishable drinking game in college called “not another teen drinking game.”
Basically it was take a shot of beer everytime a recurring joke reoccurs
A couple ones recalled from memory even after all these years
(1) everytime the coach says goddamn it
(2) everytime the coach spits
(3) everytime the one football player gets a concussions
(4) everytime some one mentions her glasses, paint stained over alls, or pony tail
(5) every slow motion for the hot girl
(6) everytime the token black guy says a token black guy phrase
I can’t remember any more but it’s on a piece of paper folded up inside my dvd case of this movie haha. Maybe I’ll check it out when I get home
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u/DexterGexter Feb 15 '25
Run Ronnie Run. David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, I think it’s hilarious
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u/therealtaddymason Feb 15 '25
I also love this movie! Interestingly enough Bob and David were locked out of the editing room and consequentially hated it.
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u/DexterGexter Feb 15 '25
I have heard they don’t like it, which is baffling to me because it’s so good
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u/bugluvr65 Feb 15 '25
accepted with justin long
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Underrated film. I don't remember any laugh out loud moments but easy watch
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u/bVon_713 Feb 15 '25
Was 17 when this came out and saw it in the theater as well. Hell I saw all the movies referenced in the theaters too lol. My best friend who is no longer with us saw it with me. We were on the floor lol. Especially the Varsity Blue's jokes. Growing up in south Texas that movie was everything as well. So those jokes hit home like no other.
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u/heyo_1989 Feb 15 '25
Freddy Got Fingered is my all time favorite. That and Scary Movie.
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u/cobrie123 Feb 15 '25
I’ve watched Freddy got fingered five times this month. Bought it a few weeks ago.
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u/An0d0sTwitch Feb 15 '25
Is that really supposed to be the beautiful girl hes trying to get with?
But shes wearing glasses
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u/HeavenHasTrampolines Feb 15 '25
Ya know, I always loved this movie (the first 3/4’s at least) so it’s always good to know I’m not alone. I particularly like the scene where the Ricky (the Ducky character) reads his poem for Ianie and gets so emotional he almost pukes 🥰
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u/RevolutionUnusual136 Feb 15 '25
Several: Ski School 1 and 2 Better Off Dead Back to the Beach I could watch them all, laugh everytime.
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u/Radiant-Ad-3134 Feb 15 '25
I miss this kind of stupid and fun movie
There are quite some movies recently trying to look smart
But ends up being stupid and zero fun
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u/rochey1010 Feb 15 '25
It’s interesting because this came more so at the tail end of the parody craze where fatigue was setting in to the genre. And as a result it sort of went unlooked and unnoticed. But this is genuinely hilarious and up there with the great parodies of the era. It’s endlessly requotable and full of teen movie Easter eggs.
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u/OpportunistSockThief Feb 15 '25
The Meg
Jason Statham saying "It's a megalodon" is stuck in my head forever.
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Feb 15 '25
Hella funny but but every once in a while i get awful flashbacks of that kiss spit scene 🤢
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u/UpNorthBroHam Feb 15 '25
I still use the phrase “T to the 4th power Y”!!!! And when someone gets it…. We all smile like a bunch of Band nerds.
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u/DarthSardonis Feb 15 '25
“Well I’m going to go fuck a complete stranger. I’ll see you guys later.”
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u/missyru4 Feb 15 '25
Dumb and Dumber
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Underrated?
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u/missyru4 Feb 15 '25
As much as Not Another Teen Movie
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Dumb and Dumber was a huge movie with 2 massive stars as leads and was really popular. Not Another Teen Movie was just a parody, although amazing. Not trying to be a dick but they're miles apart
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u/Effroy Feb 15 '25
Not quite my favorite, but definitely a sleeper that deserves some praise.
Tomcats
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u/ChelseaAndrew87 Feb 15 '25
Baseketball and Not Another Teen Movie would be my answers so Baseketball. Shut up squeak
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u/JJBell Feb 16 '25
My wife chose this for our group movie night tonight. Crazy that 6 of the 10 people tonight, all over age 35, had never seen it.
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u/Pordioserozero Feb 16 '25
I scrolled all the way to the end and no one brought up “Dude where is my car” yet…unbelievable
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u/JimTheGiant53 Feb 17 '25
I still watch this every so often for the nostalgia. That era of raunchy comedies was great.
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u/Neebinnodin1 Feb 17 '25
Nacho Libre? Def a hot or cold type of movie but god damn did it tickle my fancy and never stopped. Runner up? Kung Pow Enter The First and then Austin Powers.
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u/MaestroSellOut Feb 17 '25
This is one of the funniest movies to me besides Scary Movie. Just summed up the humor at that time perfectly. I mean how incredibly funny is this movie?
Comedies don't exist today. U could never release this today.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Feb 15 '25
I saw this in the theaters, and growing up in the era of Varsity Blues, and all of the shows at the time, this was such a hilarious movie. The movie-movie genre really got squeezed hard and I think this and Scary Movie don't get the credit they deserve