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Movies that feel like Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

If you loved Not Another Teen Movie, the closest films we have are Scary Movie (2000), DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004) and The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991). All three share Not Another Teen Movie's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Gallenwittyplayfuldarkly funnyhopeful

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If Not Another Teen Movie hit the spot, these will too

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Scary Movie
2000 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 52%6.3comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: high school and satire

The difference: Not nearly as hopeful as Not Another Teen Movie

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!

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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 72%6.7comedy

Common ground in both: underdog and cheerleader

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%6.9comedy · crime

Both are working the same pair: parody, spoof

The difference: None of the hope Not Another Teen Movie is built on

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%6.7comedy

One thread runs through both: satire

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%7.2comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: high school

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Not Another Teen Movie does

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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The Castle
1997 · dir. Rob Sitch
🍅 87%7.6drama · comedy

Common ground: underdog

The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%7.6comedy

Both land wit and play at once

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%7comedy

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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🍅 85%6.6comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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Cool Runnings
1993 · dir. Jon Turteltaub
🍅 75%7comedy · adventure · drama

Comedy built on hope, twice over

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.

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Scary Movie 4
2006 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 34%5.1comedy

Both are built on the same subject: crude humor

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%7.4comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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