Filmmaker’s Commentary: features director Joel Gallen and co-writer Mike Bender. The duo offer up a really breezy, laid-back, and almost monotone discussion about the film and they cover many aspects surrounding it.

Cast Commentary: Hosted by actors Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Jungmann, and Eric Christian Olsen. As with most actor commentaries, it offers up little and congratulates much as the group spends a ton of time laughing, giggling, and talking about how funny the jokes were.

Teen Movie Factoids: The factoids pop up in small, colored windows on different parts of your screen and they contain some rather useless facts on many of the films that Not Another Teen Movie parodies and it relates them to the current scene.

Schools in Session: Once inside, you have 3 different featurettes to choose from starting with “Best Dressed”. “Best Dressed”, running for 9-minutes, deals with the production and costume design for the film and is hosted by Joseph T. Garrity, the film’s Production Designer, and Florence-Isabelle Megginson, the Costume Designer.

Speaks for itself.

Deleted Scenes: We find 18 scenes that didn’t make the final cut. The scenes included are “Areola & Janey Go To Class”, “Janey’s Flashback”, “Barbeque”, “Janey’s Transformation” (Extended Version), “Sadie’s Letter”, “Jake & Father” (Extended Version), “Ricky at Party/Amanda Letter”, “Janey’s Party Dance”, “Pillow Fight”, “Janey’s Bedroom Dance”, “Mitch Teasing Janey”, “Sadie’s Halftime Kiss”, “Jake’s Secret Revealed” (Extended Version), “Musical” (Extended Version), “Ricky at the Prom”, “Bruce and Areola at the Prom”, “Original Ending”, and “Sixteen Candles Addendum”.

Marilyn Manson’s “Tainted Love” – The Unrated Version: In this extra, clocking in at around 9-minutes, we get to see Manson’s unrated video for the cover of “Tainted Love” that is featured on the Not Another Teen Movie soundtrack. The featurette shows us MTV “Making the Video” footage and then cuts into the video/song. The only difference in this video and the one running on MTV was the nudity that was obviously edited out of the version that ran on the MTV.  You hardly notice it so pay attention.

The Yearbook: An animated photo gallery of pictures featuring a particular star being highlighted with some music playing in the background. Each actor is featured for 15 to 20-seconds and shown in the “yearbook” are Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner, Eric Jungmann, Cerina Vincent, Ron Lester, Samm Levine, Deon Richmond, and Joel Gallen. In total, the feature runs for about 7-minutes.

Meet the Cast Promos: 30-second TV spots that highlight individual characters from the film. We can choose from “The Popular Jock”, “The Pretty Ugly Girl”, “The Token Black Guy”, “The Bitchy Cheerleader”, “The Cocky Blonde Guy”, “The Cruelest Girl”, or “The Obsessed Best Friend”. Thankfully, Columbia has added a –PLAY ALL- feature here and we can watch them all in succession. The promos are pretty funny and each was humorous in its own right but a couple of the spots were quite crude and probably had to be edited before they ran on television. Regardless, it’s a nice addition to an already stacked set.

Auditions Montage: This runs for almost 4-minutes. Here we get footage from the audition tapes / nothing great and nothing particularly hilarious.

Cruel Intentions H20: Twenty Year Later.

Joel Gallen’s "Car Ride": Runs for about 4-minutes. The short film stars Jenny McCarthy and is about a girl who is picked up by a serial killer and the two hit it off.

Test Your Teen Movie I.Q.: After an introduction from Joel Gallen, he, along with some of his stars from the film, quiz us on everything from John Hughes films to current day teen outings.

Not Another Teen Movie doesn't know when enough is enough, and it certainly doesn't have what it takes to stand on its own as a comedy. Should you rent or buy this film? This film contains lots of nudity and gross childish humor that alone will either make it or break it for you.

The film does not have much of a plot in keeping with the films that inspired it. It loses its pacing towards the end of the film, and some of the jokes bomb badly. This film will clearly not win any awards or set standards for quality filmmaking, nonetheless, Not Another Teen Movie has some laughs and if you do not mind crude humor, you may just find yourself laughing along with the film as I did.

One of the biggest treats of the film is trying to discover what film they are spoofing before they move on to the next scene and spotting the number of cameos in the film. It is obvious that the creative forces did not take the film to seriously and if you do not, you just might find yourself having a good time with it.

"I was on my way to Paris."                           "Paris?"

The DVD offered fine picture quality and a terrific soundtrack, not to mention a nice little roster of extras. Fans of comedies like these should probably give Not Another Teen Movie a look, but this film will not work for a wide audience. Rent with caution.

Not Another Teen Movie could have been a nice visit back down memory lane. As it stands, through a string of gimmicky plots from other storylines, this film has nothing to rely on, it sadly winds up another example of the title it was so cleverly trying to spin on its own. If you’re not up on current teen/pop culture, many of the jokes might fly right over your head. There is definitely some required viewing needed before you watch Not Another Teen Movie, but if you’ve been paying any attention for the past 20-years, you should be just fine and will have a blast with most of the parodies in this film.

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