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Released in 2001 (review written February 19, 2024)
Rating: 9/10
This is one of the most nostalgic comedies for me, right there with Rat Race. I
was too young to watch it on release (rated R) and to be honest, when I did
watch it around 2005 or 2006, I was still too young.
I remember it pretty clearly. My best friend back then was Alex. He would come
to my house for sleepovers pretty often, maybe once a month or so. We would
stay up as late as possible drinking caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper, eating
Doritos and Chex Mix and pizza and burgers, playing video games like
Timesplitters 2 and Burnout, watching Adult Swim and Girls Gone Wild
commercials on TV, and so on. At some point he was lucky to get an iPod Video!
He would also bring his dad's laptop over with DVDs from Blockbuster. My
parents didn't know or they would've freaked out. His mom and dad didn't care
about content or ratings, like pretty much everyone else at school. We watched
Dorm Daze (ugh, it sucked) and Euro Trip (don't remember it at all) and maybe
Van Wilder, I'm not sure. We'd also watch South Park episodes on his iPod Video
and that's when I was introduced to World of Warcraft. We were both psyched to
play the game but I had an ancient G3 iMac that couldn't possibly run it.
It was so hard not to make noise with this movie, late at night
when my parents were asleep. The writing is
incredible. They simply don't make films like this anymore. I give it a
9 because some of it is low effort; it's not on the same playing field as Top
Secret, for example, but it ranks high because of how nostalgic it is for me.
It is jam-packed with references to teen movies, obviously. My favorite things
are the subtle background elements I never noticed as a kid, like "Anthony
Michael Dining Hall" or Malik the token black guy's hair changing every time
he's seen.
Damn! Sheeeeit! Oh, that is wack!
The scene with the undercover reporter old lady who is inexplicably a virgin
with the lesbian kiss was gross. I pretended to be into it when I was a kid to
keep up appearances but wow that was disgusting. Reggie Ray and his pig and
concussions, Austin being a closet homo, Areola and her casual nude
appearances, there's just so much to like, and it's overall very cozy. It
really feels like the culmination of teen movies, the peak of the genre. Watch
the source material, then watch this, and there's nothing left.
This was part of the dawn of 2000s parodies such as Scary Movie, and I have to
say it holds up way better. It unfortunately tainted my perception of
high school and what being a teenager was like. There are some "cliques" and
conflicts but overall it was nothing like this movie or pretty much any other.
Losing your virginity was not nearly as important as this or American Pie made
it to be. Fact is, most kids don't lose their virginity in high school,
especially nowadays. Zoomers are basically asexual at this point,
statistically, and that's likely due to government propaganda to pit genders
against each other, as well as microplastics in the water, soil, and air. A
stupid tangent, forget I said anything.
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