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The Best Teen Comedy Movies, Ranked
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Vote up the funniest movies starring teenage actors and characters.
This list has the best teen comedy movies, ranked from best to worst by user votes. The best teen comedy films come in many forms. Some good teen comedies follow high school students as they look for love while other good comedies for teens revolve around hanging out with friends. Many of the best classic teen comedy movies were directed by John Hughes and you'll find them on this list.
What films will you find on this top teen comedy movies list? American Pie has to be near the top. This film finds four male friends vowing to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Eugene Levy adds to the hilarity as a father who always seems to walk in at the wrong time. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is another hilarious teen comedy.
With a script written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Superbad has more laughs per minute than most films in any genre. Other great teen comedy movies include Clueless, Dazed and Confused, and Napoleon Dynamite. A few of these films can even be considered teen parody movies.
Which film do you think deserves the top spot on this list? Help us decide by giving the best teen comedies a vote up. If you are looking for more lists to vote on, check out this list of the best coming of age comedies and the top movies about teenagers.
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Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Greg Mottola
High school seniors Seth and Evan have high hopes for a graduation party. The co-dependent teens plan to score booze and babes so they can become part of the in-crowd, but separation anxiety and two ...more - 2Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Gil Junger
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortunately for her younger sister, Bianca (Larisa ...more - 3Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into ...more - 4Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Mark Waters
Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick ...more - 5Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: John Hughes
Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, ...more - 6Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: John Hughes
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess ...more - 7Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Robert Luketic
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Matthew Davis) from proposing: She is too blond. Elle ...more - 8Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Will Gluck
Prompted by her popular best friend to spill details of her boring weekend, Olive (Emma Stone), a clean-cut teen, decides to spice things up by telling a little lie about losing her virginity. When ...more - 9Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Héctor Elizondo
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Garry Marshall
Shy San Francisco teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is thrown for a loop when, from out of the blue, she learns the astonishing news that she's a real-life princess! As the heir apparent to ...more - 10Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Peyton Reed
The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in ...more - 11Amanda Bynes, James Kirk, Channing Tatum
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Andy Fickman
Viola Johnson (Amanda Bynes) is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her ...more - 12Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Richard Linklater
Overly enthusiastic guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) gets thrown out of his bar band and finds himself in desperate need of work. Posing as a substitute music teacher at an elite private elementary ...more - 13Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Burr Steers
Mike O'Donnell (Matthew Perry) was a high-school basketball star with a bright future, but he threw it all away to marry his girlfriend and raise their child. Almost 20 years later, Mike's marriage ...more - 14John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time. A ...more - 15Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Paul Weitz
A riotous and raunchy exploration of the most eagerly anticipated -- and most humiliating -- rite of adulthood, known as losing one's virginity. In this hilarious lesson in life, love and libido, a ...more - 16Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Mark Waters
Single mother Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) couldn't be more different, and it is driving them both insane. After receiving cryptic fortunes at a ...more - 17Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Gary Winick
A girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager Jenna (Christa B. Allen) wants a boyfriend, and when she's ...more - 18Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Kelly Fremon
Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake ...more - 19Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Steve Pink
After receiving his latest college rejection letter, senior Bartleby Gaines devises a novel way to fool everyone into thinking he is college-bound: Open his own university. Bartleby and his similarly ...more - 20Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling
- Released: 1984
- Directed by: John Hughes
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older ...more - 21Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: Ari Sandel
Frumpy high-school senior Bianca (Mae Whitman) has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the DUFF -- designated ugly fat friend -- to her prettier and more popular ...more - 22Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Richard Linklater
This coming-of-age film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenagers in Austin, Texas, celebrating the last day of high school in 1976. The graduating class heads for a popular pool hall and joins ...more - 23Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Stephen Herek
Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are high school buddies starting a band. However, they are about to fail their history class, which means Ted would be sent to military school. They receive ...more - 24Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Olivia Wilde
Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that ...more - 25Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Luke Greenfield
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow overachiever who has never really lived life... until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle ...more
