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Movies that feel likeNot Another Teen Movie (2001)

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.

If you loved Not Another Teen Movie, the closest films we have are DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004), The Castle (1997) and Election (1999). All three share Not Another Teen Movie's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lost in America (1985).

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Gallenwittyplayfuldarkly funnyhopeful
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 72%★ 6.7comedyParamount+

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: underdog

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Not Another Teen Movie does

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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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%★ 7.2comedy · dramaParamount+

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

The difference: Easier on the hope than Not Another Teen Movie

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

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Common ground: satire

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

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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Scary Movie
2000 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 52%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Peacock

Both are working the same pair: parody, crude humor

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
★ 7comedyRent or buy

Comedy built on play, twice over

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan poster
🍅 85%★ 6.6comedyPrime Video

Both work the same dark humor

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

The same preoccupation in both: spoof

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Not Another Teen Movie does

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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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

Both run witty where it counts

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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