13 Early 2000s Teen Movies That Raised Us

Technically this film is from 1999, however we’re counting it — something with Freddie Prinze Jr. routinely qualifies as a must-watch teen film. From the frosted ideas and blonde clip-in highlights to the younger Usher cameo, She’s All That didn’t simply make us really feel all of the issues again then; it’s additionally one massive nostalgia bomb now.

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The way in which my little elementary college gal friends and I’d attempt our hardest to be taught this opening sequence… This film was on fixed repeat at my childhood bestie’s home, the place I bought to sneak a peek at a lot of teen films I wouldn’t have in any other case seen at dwelling. Listening to somebody say, “Brr, it’s chilly in right here,” nonetheless prompts the remainder of the Toros cheer in my mind like a sleeper cell agent secret code.

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I couldn’t sing a single phrase of O Canada if my life trusted it, however lady, do I do know the Genovian nationwide anthem by coronary heart. And did all of us lust after Mia’s loft bed room in that firehouse or what? This film was all the pieces you may need from a teen rom-com: drama with the favored women, discovering out you’re secretly royalty, a sprawling highschool that throws epic seashore events, and falling for the very best good friend who liked you all alongside.

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A film starring Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, and Taryn Manning would merely by no means occur immediately, which is what makes Crossroads like an extra-special time capsule now. Do you know the screenplay was truly written by Shonda Rhimes? Additionally, who amongst us wouldn’t have died to have Britney’s outfit throughout that karaoke scene?

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I adored Alexis Bledel, so naturally, this film drew me in straight away as a tween. And actually, it’s in all probability yet one more of these “the place my lore began” films that contributed to why we all love romantasy books now. The Tuck household might actually use a reboot now — who isn’t on the lookout for reminders to do issues the sluggish method nowadays?

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The chokehold A Stroll to Bear in mind had on women who needed to show a brooding, delicate unhealthy boy right into a top-shelf boyfriend was unmatched. In fact, this film was the form of rom-com you dream about whenever you’re a tween (aside from possibly the entire truly getting sick and dying half), and I believe all of us needed to be a little bit extra like Mandy Moore’s effortlessly good character each time we watched it.

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There was a minute in Hollywood the place they have been actually churning out the browsing films, and Blue Crush was the very best of the bunch. The recent surfer lady with a coronary heart of gold and the potential to go professional meets a dreamy NFL quarterback, makes an enormous comeback, and lifts her associates out of poverty? It’s 2000s rom-com gold, child.

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We can not — CAN. NOT. — talk about Disney films with killer remaining numbers and never discuss Miss Lizzie McGuire. Anybody who grew up watching the sequence on Disney Channel completely liked this banger of a film, and actually, I’d sit down and watch it once more proper now. BTW, do you know Haylie Duff voiced Isabella on stage? So cool.

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You bear in mind this gem, proper? Early aughts sweetheart Amanda Bynes goes to London to search out her long-lost dad — who simply so occurs to be a literal British lord. It simply will get higher from there: a glow-up montage, a bad-girl duchess, and Colin Firth serving severe ~daddy~ vibes. It was peak 2000s wish-fulfillment cinema.

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If we’re speaking about early 2000s teen film stars, Lindsay Lohan was the second. Freaky Friday will get quite a lot of love (and a reboot), and rightfully so, however Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen had one thing required of all the very best 2000s films: a memorable onstage efficiency. Don’t inform me this music wasn’t caught in your head when you have been attempting to take your math check!

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You understand it, you adore it, and we made it a part of the cultural lexicon. Very similar to “Luke, I’m your father,” “She doesn’t even go right here!” is a phrase that can reverberate by means of movie historical past. It was such an ideal, barely over-the-top model of how we take into consideration reputation and simply how ridiculous all of the social video games actually are. And, it’s when Lindsay branched out from her previous rated-G Disney methods.

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This film simply had so many moments: The scene of Haley Getting out of the ice bathtub has been credited by many because the catalyst to their bisexual awakening, and you understand what? I get that. Then there’s the bra strap protest, which is the right corny “f*ck you” second for viewers simply beginning to really feel how the patriarchy chafes in actual life. We should always all begin doing rock ‘n roll palms in every day life extra usually, I really feel.

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The premise of JTMD was truly fairly authentic: Three women from three completely different cliques discover out they’re courting the identical sizzling jock at college and enlist the beautiful new lady to seduce him and break his coronary heart. The solid was perfection — Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Jesse Metcalfe — and it’s simply so deliciously of the time.

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