Yes, Another Teen Movie

WELCOME BACK TO THE FINAL EPISODE OF YES ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE! This week we're diving into Renée Rapp's cleavage... oops, we mean Mean Girls The Movie The Musical that no one asked for. Thank you Tina Fey for giving us the perfect vehicle to end this podcast on a high, and avoid having to critique the timeless perfection of the original Mean Girls!! Featuring time-travelling Ms Norberry and Mr Duvall, 12-year-old Cady and Aaron and a cameo from Heather's no. 1 lady Lindsay Lohan, you just know that this movie.... is actually OK!

Welcome back to our 69TH episode, lovely YATM listeners! This week/fortnight/month (we're still figuring out our cadence, okay?) we're back in your earholes with the film that defined a generation. Boomers had Rebel Without a Cause, Gen X had Say Anything, and ageing Millennials like Jemma and Heather had Juno, FORSHIZZ one of the best teen movies of all time. Once you get past the self-consciously wacky dialogue, there's an incredible soundtrack, toxic masculinity commentary, and Michael Cera in teeny tiny shorts.

We're honestly doing the lord's work, watching all these movies so you don't have to.
You're welcome. 

I hear those sleighbells ringling, jing-jing-jingling too! And something else - what's that sound? It's the sound of a YATM CHRISTMAS SPECIAL coming over the airwaves, as fun and festive as a winter sleigh ride. Welcome one and all to the snowy world of Lindsay Lohan & Chord Overstreet, who play our romantic leads in Netflix's latest made-for-clickbait Christmas rom-com (and we're being generous with the com). There's physical comedy! There's snow! There's a failing local business! There's plaid... and even more plaid... oh my god there's so much fucking plaid.

 Will Lindsay be able to save the failing ski resort and learn a little something about herself in the process? Our feeling is, that with a little help from you dear listeners, she will. So jump in our SLAY and let's get going!

A delicious cocktail of 'Strangers on a train' and a shitload of teen movies

Everyone get into the YATM time machine! We're going all the way back to the 1950s this week to what might be the FIRST EVER teen movie, Nicholas Ray's 1955 classic Rebel Without a Cause. But was the film that launched a thousand pop culture references actually any good, or was it just a posthumous obsession with James Dean's own misspent youth that put this movie on the map? You're going to have to listen to find out. 

We meet again, Zac Efron. Or are we meeting Matthew Perry?  Err, pretty confusing stuff this is. And we're not the only ones who are confused (looking at you Leslie Mann and Michelle Trachtenberg...) 
Everyone, hop into that  DeLorean and travel back with us to the year 2009 (or 1989? We told you this was confusing). 

OK, so we took a little break! Jemma actually went into a 30-day coma after the trauma of watching Senior Year, and now she's awake she's still talking like it's May 2022. Rebel Wilson coming out is old news, Jemma!

This of course mirrors the experience of our 'heroine' (and I use that word very, very lightly) Stephanie in Senior Year, who falls into a coma following a cheerleading accident and wakes up 20 years later still feelin' like a teen, but still with the hots for 37 year old men. There are a lot of good moral lessons contained within this film, which we will endeavour to convey to you, dear listener, and also to live by all the days of our lives. 

What's that you say? A feminist, queer masterpiece starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfriend? Get this episode in your ears, quick! 

Tall Girl 2: This Time I'm Taller. Tall Girl 2: PS I'm Still Tall. Tall Girl 2: 2 Tall 2 Function. Whatever you call it, this movie is a giant insult to the concept of cinema. and the world would be a better place if it had been consigned to the giant dumpster outside the back of Netflix HQ. No, I'm not going to elaborate... just listen to the episode if you care so much.