Best 90's Teen Comedy - Nominating Tournament

1. The film must have been released from 1990-1999. If you can make a strong argument for a film from 1988-1989 or 2000-2001 having a "90's spirit", it may be included.
2. The film should be FOR teens and people in their early twenties, not necessarily ABOUT teens. For example, Child's Play is not for kids even though the lead is very young in the movie. However, raunchy R-rated comedies that teens are not supposed to watch but watch anyway ARE allowed.
3. This should focus on what you enjoyed at that age, not as a jaded late-twenties early-thirties cinephile with thinning hair and back pain.

Each person can nominate five films. Each nomination is worth 1 point. Depending on the nominations, the top 16/32/64 will go on to the bracket.

My picks:
1. Can't Hardly Wait
2. She's All That
3. Clueless
4. Idle Hands
5. Now and Then

 

American Pie
10 Things I Hate About You
Varsity Blues
Dazed and Confused
Spice World

 

1. Dazed & Confused (number 1 with a bullet)
2. Clueless
3. Election
4. American Pie
5. Can't Hardly Wait

 

Clueless
Never Been Kissed
Spice World
But I'm a Cheerleader
Jawbreaker

i'm queer so this is no surprise lol

 

Clueless
Can't Hardly Wait
Empire Records
10 things I hate about you
Dazed and Confused

 

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Any chance we can do voting using a google doc? Lots of folks felt the polls were clogging up the forum.

 

Not Another Teen Movie was made in 2001 but clearly has a 90s vibe considering what it is. Does that count?

Much like with the TV thread, I'm gonna try and nominate some lesser known ones and/or ones that might have been forgotten. Also hard to tell what counts as a "comedy" sometimes vs. straight up "Coming of age" tale, but you put Now and Then in the first post so I feel like I can nominate The Sandlot lol. TBH I have no idea what you have in mind here so I'm gonna put question marks next to ones that I'm not sure count (because most of them def aren't in the same true vein as a Can't Hardly Wait or Varsity Blues or etc. And some of these are definitely more for the younger teen crowd

1.The Sandlot
2. Angus
3. Pleasantville (?)
4. Drop Dead Fred (?)
5. Heavyweights
My Boyfriend's Back
Idle Hands (???)
High School High (???)
The Big Green
The Mighty Ducks
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Hocus Pocus (???)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Camp Nowhere
Wild America (???)
Jungle 2 Jungle (??)
Milk Money
Good Burger

EDIT-Edited to comply with the 5 nominations rule that I did not notice beforehand. Left question marks next to the ones in the top 5 that i wasn't sure met the criteria in case they don't count.

 

Does Scream count as a comedy? If so, I'm replacing one of my other choices with that

 

Can you explain it?

 

I just used google forms to the whole bracket. Its an easy way to have all of the responses in one place.

Chorus Horror Brackets pt 2

 

i kinda like having the separate threads for separate discussion of each matchup ngl

 

I liked them better. It was a place where we could actually have discussions for each contest.

 

1. But I’m A Cheerleader
2. 10 Things I Hate About You
3. Clueless
4. She’s All That
5. Can’t Hardly Wait


Now and Then would definitely make my list of best coming of age stories but I couldn’t justify a nomination if we’re going for comedies.

 

1. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (prefer excellent adventure but that's 80's)
2. Can't Hardly Wait
3. Bio-Dome
4. Waynes World
5. Mallrats

 

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Can't Hardly Wait
3. Clueless
4. Idle Hands
5. SLC Punk

 

Honorable Mentions (or that probably wouldn't count):
Rushmore
Heavyweights
The Sandlot
Nowhere
Scream
The Faculty
Empire Records
The Brady Bunch Movie/A Very Brady Sequel
Suburbia
Outside Providence

 

To me, Rushmore is an example of a movie about a teenager but isn't for teenagers. Before Sunrise is about young people but it isn't really that appealing to teenagers either.

 

Having a hell of a time keeping horror films out of this, but here it goes..

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Idle Hands
3. American Pie
4. Can't Hardly Wait
5. She's All That

 

Would things like billy Madison, waterboy, airheads count?