Given your policy "quality, light comedies" I tried to avoid action, crime and horror themed movies like Agent Cody Banks or Monster Island on my list, but also college settings to not define it down to the American Pie category – which IMO applies to Cruel Intentions 2 by far more than to Not Another Teen Movie ;) I think the latter had a pretty close connection to Whatever It Takes, which started this all, and even more to She's All That, which is a prominent representative named by yourself. It's also mocking a good amount of the named movies.
Actually I had some of your extensions on my list initially, but removed them again, Saved! being one of them. But now, weeks later, I can't even remember the exact reason! :D – Any idea? Maybe it was just accidentally, maybe it was because I thought it to be too problematic with religion, sexual disorientation, pregnancy and such ... I don't know.
Some of your additions like My Date with the President's Daughter, The Princess Diaries or The Girl Next Door also focus too much on a single (or a pair of) main character(s) as opposed to a (at least attached) group of students, which I also excluded after rethinking the subject. I know it's difficult to draw a line there, but I tried. And High School Musical, come on ... this spawned an entirely different genre, eventually leading us to the Step Up franchise in the worst case ^^
Too bad no one else finds this worthy of discussion, that might help alot.
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joenscott
8 years ago
Not Another Teen Movie is a great comedy, but when not edited for TV, the genuinely strong toilet and sexual humor (and both of those combined, more than once) takes it out of the Whatever It Takes world imo. They're actually supposed to be younger in Cruel Intentions 2 than in Cruel Intentions IIRC, but in any case I think you're on to something that they're on the periphery too.
I put Saved! in and then took it out the first time too. Yeah it touches on some serious issues so I think it might depend on mood while watching it or even mood while remembering it. I think how "funny" the camp stuff in both the Cruel Intentions is would depend on mood, too. I don't know if you've seen Monster Island but it is largely a generic -- I mean "generic" as a compliment in our context -- ensemble-cast-oriented John-Hughes-high-school-kids-bickering-with-each-other-and-getting-interested-in-each-other comedy. Set on, admittedly, a monster island.
I thought High School Musical was funny, in addition to just generally pleasant. I love music, and I thought Grabeel and Tisdale nailed the musical jokes.
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IMDBmurphy
8 years ago
I loved HSM too, but seriously ... ^^
Before I'd ban Not Another Teen Movie from the list, despite its connections and references, just because of some questionable scenes I can't even remember quite well, I'd ban this distinct genre all day! It's not a value judgment, just differentiation from the originally discussed movies.
Alright then, so as far as I am concerned it's now up to someone else to chime in ~~~
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