One of the Last Great Parodies and One of Chris Evans’ First Leading Roles Is Leaving Netflix Soon
Not Another Teen Movie didn’t just skewer the coming-of-age genre, it gave audiences their first glimpse of Chris Evans as a leading man.
If you go on Letterboxd or visit the film-focused corners of social media, sooner or later you're bound to encounter a post that goes: "They don't make movies like this anymore." This line of thinking is debatable, but there's one genre of film that seems to be virtually extinct — the parody. Long gone are the days of films like Airplane!, the Naked Gun series, or the works of Mel Brooks; it's become hard to find a film that's a genuine parody nowadays. More to the point, it's hard to find a good parody film nowadays. It also doesn't help that one of the last good parodies ever made, Not Another Teen Movie, is slated to leave Netflix by January 31.