Editing Not Another Teen Movie (section)

==Release==
''Not Another Teen Movie'' opened theatrically on December 14, 2001. It was released on [[DVD region code|region 1]] DVD on April 30, 2002, with an "unrated extended version" on July 26, 2005. This cut runs ten minutes longer than the original, and adds a number of deleted, alternate and extended scenes.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2330 | title=Not another Teen Movie (Comparison: Theatrical Cut and Unrated Director's Cut) | website=movie-censorship.com | date=May 27, 2008 | access-date=April 6, 2021 | archive-date=August 11, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811203249/https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2330 | url-status=live }}</ref>

===Box office===
The film opened at third place at the US box office taking $12.6 million in its opening weekend. It grossed $38.3 million domestically and $28.2 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $66.5 million.<ref name="mojo" />

===Critical response===
[[Rotten Tomatoes]] gave the film an approval rating of 32% based on 102 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critics consensus states: "''NATM'' has some funny moments, but the movie requires the audience to have familiarity with the movies being spoofed and a tolerance for toilet and sexual humor to be truly effective."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/not_another_teen_movie/|title=Not Another Teen Movie Reviews|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=March 5, 2025|archive-date=May 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530230003/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/not_another_teen_movie|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a weighted average score of 32 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/not-another-teen-movie|title=Not Another Teen Movie|work=Metacritic|access-date=December 19, 2010|archive-date=September 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912205639/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/not-another-teen-movie|url-status=live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Not Another" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=August 27, 2021}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film two stars out of a possible four, and admitted to laughing a few times but not as much as he did for ''American Pie'' or ''[[Scary Movie]]''. Ebert also criticized the scatological humor. He urged audiences to not waste their time on the film, when in the month of December 2001 there were "21 other promising films" to choose from.<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news |date=December 14, 2001 |author=Roger Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Not Another Teen Movie |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-another-teen-movie-2001 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831092726/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-another-teen-movie-2001 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Robin Rauzi of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called it "a 90-minute exercise in redefining the word 'gratuitous{{' "}} and suggested it is most likely to appeal to fourteen-year-olds – "who of course [are] not supposed to be seeing this R-rated movie".<ref name="latimes">{{cite news | date = December 14, 2001 | author = Robin Rauzi | title = 'Not Another Teen Movie' Just Multiplies the Raunch | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-14-et-rauzi14-story.html | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date = September 19, 2013 | archive-date = September 21, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061525/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/14/entertainment/et-rauzi14 | url-status = live }}</ref> Dennis Harvey of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' criticized the film for its "overall tendency to mistake mere bad taste for outrageousness, and plain referentiality for satire" but praised Evans, Pressly, and Olsen for giving performances better than the material. He noted that the film follows the model of ''Scary Movie'' but lacked the comic finesse of [[Anna Faris]].<ref name="variety">{{cite magazine |date=December 13, 2001 |author=Dennis Harvey |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/not-another-teen-movie-1200552287/ |title=Not Another Teen Movie |access-date=December 7, 2017 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120113449/https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/not-another-teen-movie-1200552287/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Mick LaSalle]] of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' called the film "a crass act" and pointed out the futility of trying to parody films that are already absurd. LaSalle complained that the film too closely copies ''She's All That'', calling it "pathetic" that ''Not Another Teen Movie'' is just another formulaic teen movie.<ref name="sfgate">{{cite news |title=A crass act. Gross-out teen flick imagines it's a parody |author=Mick LaSalle |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/14/DD138285.DTL&type=movies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020817185801/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2001%2F12%2F14%2FDD138285.DTL&type=movies|archive-date=August 17, 2002|date=December 14, 2001 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>