10 Awful Teen Comedies That Are Actually Hilarious

The coming of age teen drama/comedy is a very difficult genre to perfect. When they're good, they're amazing. Recently films like Eighth Grade, The Edge of Seventeen and Booksmart have been carrying the torch for touching, witty and engaging teen comedies in the vein of old John Hughes classics.

On the flip side, when they fall flat... they fall HARD.

It's hard to even begin to count how many soulless, unfunny teen sex comedies that were coming out consistently in the early and mid 2000s. Thankfully that's a trend that seems to be slowly dying out. Nonetheless there are still some that are seemingly made with the intention to bore you completely to death. Prime example being the Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore movie The Art of Getting By, arguably one of the most insufferable portrayals of teenage angst and privilege ever put to film.

Then we have the grey area in between. You're not quite sure whether to laugh or cringe inexplicably. Some of these films are so campy and over the top that they make you laugh. Some are written so terribly that you can do nothing but burst out laughing. And some are just downright surreal to the point that you are rendered speechless. Nonetheless, it's almost impossible to not laugh at or be confused by these next ten movies.

F The Prom is an utterly baffling film. It revolves around two childhood friends named Maddy and Cole who become distant from one another once they reach high school. Maddy becomes one of the cool, hip girls whilst Cole is relegated to being a stereotypical nerdy outcast.

The catalyst for his social exclusion? He was pantsed in front of the entire school the minute he stepped through the door on his first day. For some reason Cole is so fascinating to every student at this school that they cannot control their urge to relentlessly bully him for years.

The plot kicks into motion once Maddy breaks up with her cool heartthrob boyfriend and she reconnects with Cole (seemingly out of desperation and pity). They hatch a devious plan to assemble a team (a la Suicide Squad) of outcasts to destroy the upcoming prom for everyone in the school, just to take revenge on the select few that bullied them.

What is truly hilarious about this particular film is the depiction of bullying in schools. Usually unpopular kids go completely unnoticed and ignored, but somehow everyone that Cole encounters seems to know him and hate his guts for some reason. Maybe he's hiding a dark secret that makes his bullying justifiable? Regardless of this, it seems counter intuitive that he is this unpopular yet every single person loves making him miserable.

At the end of the film they well and truly F The Prom. Cole pantses himself, declares his actions were okay because they didn't shoot up the school or commit suicide. Yes. That actually happens.

The attempts in this film to come off edgy and subversive end up feeling just utterly surreal, completely out of touch with teenage problems and strangely amusing.