Not Another Teen Movie

So, on the spur of the moment last night, we all decided to go catch a movie last night. It was a choice between NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE or OCEAN'S ELEVEN. (Actually, we could have watched VANILLA SKY, but nobody wanted to.) I wanted to see OCEAN'S ELEVEN again, but we all went and watched NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE.

You may not like to hear this, but I laughed my ass off at this movie.

Let me explain. It doesn't take a lot to make me laugh. Hell, I look for an excuse to laugh at anytime. So comedys are right up my alley. Especially low-brow comedys based on cruelty and pop-culture. (Note: SCARY MOVIE was still slow death for me.) So NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE was right up my alley.

Don't get me wrong. This movie is not good. You have to go into a theater with a rowdy crowd ready to laugh. It's the vital ingredient to the movie. If you're going to wait until video, you may as well skip it altogether. And this movie is crude. In fact, their is a direct acknowledgement in the movie. An English teacher is spouting off about the lowest common demoninator in humor right before he is sprayed with a huge spout of. . .

Well, I'm not going to give it away. (As if you couldn't see it coming.) Note: I appreciate humor in all its forms. I can sling around the highbrow wit with the best of them, but in my mind, if you can't appreciate a good fart joke, well, where does that leave you? (Like last night, my friend farted so loud on the balcony that the people inside could hear him. And this was through a glass door. Man, we laughed for. . . wait, too much information.)

As you well know, seeing as you can't avoid the commercials (or the title), this is a rip-off of all those teen movies. If you watched a lot of bad eighties movies, you will have fun connecting the dots. You may also have fun noticing how many of these gags are lost on the audience. Have people no memory? The worst offense (at least with my audience), was when a certain eighties star ("I pity da fool!") showed up with no reaction from the crowd. Criminal negligence. You must respect the T!

Anyway, I realized I have no point to this post. If you are willing to laugh this weekend, go see NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE. If you know you are not going to like that sort of movie, don't. You won't like it. But if you prouldy revel in lame dick and fart jokes you'll be right at home. I liked it.

(By the way, this long, lengthy and boring post was just an excuse for me to complain about the lack of response to my hero, Lawrence Tero. The people don't know!)