At least it's astutely observed down to the last cliché, round down to the last detail. If it owes anything to one person, its John Hughes, Creator of such 80's teen classics as "Ferris' Bueller's Day Off", "The Breakfast Club","She's Having A Baby" and so forth . The sub-80's pop-rock soundtrack is almost (rescored almost note for note pastiche style, crammed with tracks originally by Simple Minds("Don't you forget about me" - from the Breakfast Club), New Order ("Bizarre Love Triangle" , here by Stabbing Westward, "Blue Monday" by Orgy), Yello's "Oh yeah" (as in "Ferris Bueller"), Tangerine Dreams "The dream is always the same" (From "Risky Business") and soforth. (*) 

The  cliched jock characters, the nerds, the bitchy over-ambitious pretty girls; it's a film filled with detail and affection for the original 80's classics. The kids go to John Hughes High School, the sports teams train at the Harry Dean Stadium (as in Harry Dean Stanton) ; the incidental detail permeates down to the sarcastic posters on the school walls...

Desite this attention to detail, and the occasional laugh out loud moment, "Not Another Teen movie" mostly falls flat on its face. In part its due to its American Pie scatalogical humour, , with classrooms full of human excrement, a sub-Porky's shower sequence, the obligatory sexually fuelled Swedish foreign exchange student there only to tantalise virgin male students at parties, the satire on gun control), its plotline nicked wholesale from "Grease", (school jock falls for rebellious nerdy girl), and mostly due to its "throw enough shit at the wall and see if it sticks" attitude to joke telling : not so much finely tuned as like a blunderbuss.

However astutely observed, the jokes aren't always funny - the gag about the obligatory black guy whose only plot point is to say "damn" "Shit" and "that is whack" maybe true, but it isn't necessarily funny.

However, the surprise appearance of Mr. T as a spiritual guru spouting zen-like wisdom in the middle of an important football almost excuses the near-token racism, but it doesn't excuse the references to incestual relationships, trans-generational lesbianism and poor taste.