“NOT JUST ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE” is not just another bad teen movie!  In fact, it’s a welcome reprieve to most of the crappy teenager-marketed films of the past few years.  Although there’s not much of a plot to the film, its threadbare storyline is no more annoying than the films it tries, and sometimes succeeds in satirizing. 

There are some creative jokes here, but there are plenty more that just fall flat.  Although it feels fresh to have this kind of teen-marketed film to be irreverent, even that gets tiring after a while.  And, even though some of the parodies are quite funny, they’ll lose their effectiveness on most people whom haven’t seen the films being spoofed, e.g. “Cruel Intentions”, “Never Been Kissed”, “Can’t Hardly Wait” and many more.  Thankfully, for those male, hormonally raging teens, there’s a beautiful girl featured here in a parody of the foreign exchange student from “American Pie”, whom can’t keep her clothes on for a good part of the film. 

COLUMBIA TRISTAR has presented the film with its proper 1.85:1 aspect ratio and 16:9 enhancement.  The clarity of each scene is impressive. There’s great detail and colors are bold.   While there’s some minor grain present, the image is generally well-polished.  Fleshtones appear natural, and the contrast is excellent.

The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is aggressive in spots, but most rear speaker usage is reserved for the soundtrack.  The front soundstage has a wide variety of directional effects though. 

There are two commentaries offered. One is with some of the actors and actresses, including Jamie Pressley and Chyler Leigh.  It’s an honest and pretty entertaining commentary with the actors being honest enough to be self-deprecating at times. They also share some interesting anecdotes of behind the scenes situations.

The 2^nd commentary is with the director and co-writer.  While they’re sincere and passionate, their commentary is somewhat of a lackluster, offering mostly descriptive narration.

“School’s in Session” is a section with featurettes relating to the costume design, gags, and the director’s work. 

Our favorite supplementary section, of course, is the “Deleted Scenes” section.  There are actually 18 deleted scenes offered here. Although most don’t really add to the film, there are a couple that are actually hilarious, and it was an obvious mistake to keep them out of the finished film. 

There’s a music video by Marilyn Manson, a featurette looking at the cast, their characters and the actor counterparts in a section, appropriately titled “The Yearbook”.

We loved the Screen test montage, but it was far too short.

Also, one of the director’s short films is offered, along with trailers to other teen-targeted films.