They're not Grade A teen movies, but they are enjoyably bad. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the teen flicks that we simultaneously love and hate!
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00:00 "Would you maybe wanna?"
00:01 "What do you mean, maybe wanna what?"
00:06 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the teen flicks that we
00:12 simultaneously love and hate. Plot points will be discussed. This is your spoiler warning.
00:18 "He likes that I'm smart, and if this didn't happen,
00:20 we wouldn't have been able to get to know each other. It's cosmic."
00:23 Number 10. Stick It
00:26 "Haley, I leave it to you to decide. Where would you like to go?"
00:30 "Texas Military Academy, your honor."
00:31 "VGA it is."
00:33 After breaking the law, hooligan Haley has to return to the world of competitive gymnastics.
00:39 Sure, some of the behaviors we see portrayed athletics-wise are kind of questionable,
00:44 plus the characters are like onions, except every layer is pretty much the same. Despite this,
00:50 the heart of the story, as well as the team bonding, has us rooting for each of them to
00:55 succeed. Poorly executed high school film trope, like Rebel with "more to her than meets the eye"
01:01 aside, Stick It has some genuinely touching moments. In them, sincerity manages to shine
01:07 through. Even if only briefly, it's nowhere near a masterpiece of filmmaking, but it's ideal for
01:13 whenever we need to feel inspired by an underdog tale. "Wait a second. Next time you should stick
01:21 out your tongue, too." "I would, but my coach likes it when I control it."
01:26 Number 9. The Perfect Man
01:28 Finding love while raising kids isn't always easy. Whenever things turn sour in a relationship for
01:33 Holly's mother Jean, she moves the family. Holly, however, is sick of this, so she devises a scheme
01:39 to find her mother a partner. That's pretty sweet, except she pretends to be her friend's uncle in
01:45 order to woo her mom. "I know what I'm doing borders on delusional, but what can I say?
01:50 Desperate times call for desperate measures." Okay, yes, the plot is getting weird. Her
01:55 intentions are good, but catfishing is, needless to say, not the best method.
02:00 "Does that even really matter?" "Yes, because you can't have a relationship
02:03 with a man you've never laid eyes on." The cringe is real as we watch Holly try to keep
02:08 up the ruse. But we can't lie, it's heartwarming when the actual romances blossom in the story.
02:14 Plus, Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear make an adorable mother-daughter duo.
02:19 "I will learn to love again. I will learn to trust."
02:26 Number 8. The New Guy Being unpopular is hard for Dizzy Harrison.
02:30 He wants to change his social status so badly, he turns to a prison inmate to learn how to be cool.
02:36 Yep, you heard it right. "That crazy ass, it's like somebody hit you in the back of the head,
02:41 and your ass almost jumped out your skull. Hot!" Although the premise is unique,
02:47 everything else about The New Guy is extremely predictable. There are too many stereotypical
02:52 characters to even keep track of, and the plot veers too abstract to keep us captivated.
02:58 Critiques aside, though, it's pretty entertaining. Most importantly, the music goes so hard.
03:03 We hum along to it for days. "Let the brother speak!"
03:06 "Luther." "It's not just Luther,
03:09 Spiders." "You play my kind of music."
03:11 We're talking bangers from the likes of Phil Collins, Outcast, and Green Day, to name a few.
03:16 It's worth suffering through the nonsense for that alone.
03:20 "We'll find someone. We don't need dits." "Oh, you don't? So somebody else is getting
03:24 you paying gigs. We're headlining at Homecoming two weeks from tonight."
03:30 Number 7. Sleepover
03:32 It goes without saying, but high school is the biggest deal ever in a lot of teen movies.
03:37 Sleepover is no exception. "And there's where I'll be sitting."
03:40 "Cool." "I'm cool."
03:46 "Stacey and Liz?" "Me. Life is so predictable it kills me."
03:53 The story sees a squad of eighth-graders complete a scavenger hunt in a bid to sit
03:58 with the cool kids during the next school year. For all the wild antics, there's not much substance.
04:04 "Aha! What have we here?" "I can explain."
04:08 "No, no, no, I doubt it." If you're a viewer who isn't attached
04:11 to the nostalgia factor of it all, you probably won't be super amused. That being said,
04:16 it's great for when we're looking to pass the time with an easy-to-digest film.
04:21 Go into it head empty. No thoughts, just enjoying the silly comedy.
04:25 Number 6. F the Prom
04:33 Besties to strangers, to friends to strangers, to lovers to friends,
04:38 within the span of one movie is too much. That's especially true in the case of F the Prom,
04:44 since the main reason said friendship keeps suffering is because one of its members is
04:49 selfish. "You're right. You know, it's been a while since we hung out like this."
04:54 "Does consoling you sobbing constitute us hanging out?"
04:58 A redemption arc is great. In fact, it's greatly welcomed. Yet here, Maddie essentially ditches
05:04 her friend Cole in a bid for popularity not once, but twice. So it becomes a little hard to swallow.
05:10 "I didn't even do anything." "Exactly. You never do anything."
05:15 It's a teenage train wreck, but weirdly, it's one we can't look away from. The absurdity has us
05:22 obsessed. The Cole-Maddie relationship is such a rollercoaster, we find ourselves sticking
05:27 around to see how they'll work things out. "Do you think college will be easier than high school?"
05:32 "I hope so."
05:35 Number 5. The Hot Chick. Picture this. A mean teen and a criminal end up in each other's bodies,
05:42 and the clock is ticking to make things right. "Well, finders keepers, sweetheart."
05:46 "How dare you!" The classic switch-roo is a tale as old as time. Unfortunately,
05:56 the crass language and incoherent plot make The Hot Chick widely hated among the majority
06:02 of critics. If we look at it from purely an entertainment perspective instead of a cinematic
06:06 one, though, it's not that bad. "Let's just pretend this was an alternate universe where
06:11 I actually believed you. Why would I want to help Jessica out anyway?" The jokes are funny in their
06:18 own way, and the over-the-top dramatics are unreal. What else would you want in a terrible
06:24 movie? Plus, the star-studded cast, which includes names like Rachel McAdams, Rob Schneider, and Anna
06:30 Farris, adds a whole other level of awesomeness. "Knew it was gonna be a good night."
06:35 Number 4. Love Wrecked. Being stranded on an island is a nightmare. Even worse, when the person
06:41 you're with is gaslighting you into thinking there's no way home. Here, the protagonist,
06:45 Amanda Bynes' Jennifer, tries to keep her celebrity crush, Jason, stuck with her. "Don't worry.
06:52 We'll get through this together."
06:54 She's hoping for romance, of course. Her best friend Ryan, who loves her, even gives her a
07:04 hand. Somehow, the real villain of the movie gets a fairy tale love story with her bestie?
07:09 "What are you doing tonight?" "Huh?" "What are you doing tonight? I was just
07:13 thinking we could hang out." "You don't have to if you don't want to."
07:17 What the heck? The main characters should be facing major consequences,
07:21 not getting a happy ending. Okay, despite that, we have to admit, Jennifer and Ryan are super cute
07:27 together. Plus, the lengths they're willing to go to are so unbelievable, we have to keep watching.
07:32 "We're great together. We've always been great together. I can't get you out of my mind."
07:38 Number 3. Swiped. When will we learn that get-rich-quick schemes never work out well?
07:44 In Swiped, polar opposites, James and Lance, create an app that's perfect for people wanting
07:50 casual relationships. "You have to agree to certain terms and conditions that will make
07:54 sure that you, one, do not ask for names, two, you will not ask to see the person again, and three,
08:00 by no means under any circumstance will you date anybody on the app."
08:06 This is probably supposed to provide comedic commentary on modern dating,
08:10 but it totally misses the mark. There's absolutely nothing intellectual or deep about the movie.
08:15 "Oh, is it a joke?" "Was it funny?" "No. Don't try it again because
08:20 funny stuff just doesn't work for you." It may star Noah Centineo, but there is
08:24 none of that to all the boys I've loved before Magic. For what it's worth, though, each moment
08:29 is so atrocious, it's borderline amusing. We can't sit there without chuckling at how low-quality the
08:35 lines feel. Just when we think the film has peaked in terribleness, it finds a way to outdo itself.
08:42 Of course, that's the fun of it. "Okay, so we either sink together or we drown together."
08:46 "Isn't that the same thing? I think it's the same thing."
08:49 Number two, The Kissing Booth. Striking up a romance with the person you promised your best
08:55 friend you'd never date is a bad idea, especially when it's their relative. Yet Elle finds herself
09:01 in a pickle after participating in her high school's fundraiser's kissing booth.
09:06 "This isn't so bad. Not so bad at all. Wait!" Unbeknownst to her, she smooches her BFF's
09:15 brother, Noah, who's supposed to be off-limits, and who she's had a crush on forever. You can
09:20 imagine where things go from there. "Lee, I can explain."
09:23 "Unbelievable." "Wait, no, Lee, Lee, wait, no, stay,
09:28 stay here, please. Let me handle this." This film is so cheesy, you could make a million pizzas from
09:35 it. But we can't get enough of how cringey it is. The teen angst, the fighting, the confession scenes,
09:41 they all have us hooked. The fact that there are two sequels that are also so bad they're good
09:47 is nothing short of perfect. "Seriously? You want to go down that road?"
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10:12 Number 1. Tall Girl
10:15 The entire concept of this flick is that the main character is tall and wears size 13 shoes.
10:22 We wish we were kidding. But that's basically the plot. "Just trying to start my next class
10:26 off on a high note." "I start every class off on a high note." "Wow, locking yourself right out
10:31 of the gate." Somehow, the Netflix original incorporates a handsome exchange student,
10:35 a feisty lifelong friend, and, you guessed it, romance. The final product is so dumb,
10:41 we have no choice but to be strangely entranced by it. "When you're a tall girl, it's the only
10:46 thing that people see." "It's not the only thing I see." Indeed, there are many ridiculous scenes
10:52 that live in our brains rent-free. The outfit protagonist Jodie wears to the dance is…
10:58 something. The reason male lead Dunkleman carries around a milk crate is comedy gold.
11:03 The awkward dialogue and weak premise have us gasping for air from laughing so hard.
11:08 Oh, and there's a sequel. Need we say more? Which of these teen movies have you seen?
11:13 Let us know in the comments. "Mina, right?" "Yeah, Mina." "Mina, put down the phone."
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