Top 20 Most Underrated Teen Movies of the 2000s

The 2000s gave us a lot of underrated teen movies. For this list, we’ll be looking at the best but most overlooked films geared towards adolescents that were released between 2000-2009. Our countdown includes "Loser," "Slackers," "Ghost World," and more! Did we miss any of YOUR underrated favorites? Let us know in the comments!
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Did we miss any of YOUR underrated favorites? Let us know, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Teen Movie Scenes That Will NEVER Get Old - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoSvi5V_qbxggNE

[@adriangarcia543]

Top 5 new video for Pattycake productions

[@stormshadowproductions1660]

Please do top 10 times My Little Pony Friendship is Magic & Equestria Girls tackled serious

[@pizzara889]

ROAD TO EL DORADO

[@cameronmcewen9666]

I haven’t watched very many of these. I liked _Sky High._

[@oliviamiller1388]

Top 10 Moments from Disney's 2005's Sky High or also possibly even a Top 20? Or Top 10 list for Best Characters from Disney's Sky High Film Please Please Please!

[@BlazerK1914]

Sky High is one of the non Marvel/DC superhero movies that I highly enjoyed.

[@mitchliam974]

Yes

[@dijaraemoore18]

One of my favs

[@maryokeeffe6604]

And they should reboot, they had so many questions unanswered.

[@aprilspencer7395]

I love sky high

[@l05555]

Super underrated and people hate on it

[@jeongtris77]

Sky high came out when I was 14. I'm 32 now and still love it.

[@Thedude8450]

ditto

[@hosneyarafat9858]

Same here

[@donniegaskins2900]

Now you’re making me feel old😅

[@andieho7893]

Sameeee

[@Shebeast3]

sky high is criminally underrated and so so good great cast and fun story

[@ConnorMiller417]

The 2000’s were the best decade! Growing up in those days felt so much better. Social media wasn’t much of a thing, people weren’t so offended by everything, and there were so many great shows and movies to come home to. Miss these days!

[@knightwolf9863]

Sky High was quite the gem back in the day, but, personally, it wasn’t the star-studded cast nor the colorful outfits that interested me, it was more about the whole plot: the exposition, the conflicts, the dynamics between characters, the themes and elements, as well as the moral of the story itself, which was “that it's wrong to judge or mock others for shallow reasons like their powers or their appearance.” In the end, this movie would be one of the many cornerstones that would pave the way to future projects that are similar to Sky High, such as The Boys, My Hero Academia, Invincible, Umbrella Academy, One punch man, and so many more that I can’t fit into this post.

[@A_Rose_From_Concrete]

I've seen about half of these movies and I can't believe they criminally underrated

[@chelseacanales8763]

Sydney White is my favourite. The 7 dorks are adorable; love how they add ‘hi ho, bye ho’ 😂😂😂😂

[@JaTariusJarrett]

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist

[@trinaq]

I always loved "Ghost World", it's probably the closest we'll ever get to a live action Daria. Steve Buscemi gives his best performance, in my opinion.

[@davidz3879]

A few questions about Thora Birch's character, Enid: Why does she have an elderly name, why does she have a one-night stand with Seymour & where does she go at the end?

[@nonemergency]

sky high... THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT! i remembered being upset every time i missed that movie on disney channel. i watched the movie when i was 9 (i didn't know english yet when the movie was released). i'm almost 23 and the movie remained as part of my vague childhood memories.

[@maryokeeffe6604]

I loved Sky High as a kid, I always believed that they could have a sequel.

[@kskollections2142]

Sky High, Stick It, and Whip It were super!

[@msantos545]

Drew Barrymore should absolutely direct more movies!🎉❤

[@Shebeast3]

bend it like Beckham is brilliant,ive lost count how many times ive watched it

[@clarajays]

Thanks for remembering Sky High ! Still watch it to this day. Side note for Danielle Panabaker playing a superhero before being known as Killer Frost ❄️🌿

[@tmoore4075]

Macaulay Culkin was so good in Saved. As someone who went to a Catholic school, I just loved it. Especially in my lapsed Catholic ways.

[@sasha28957]

Sky High should be way higher on this list. So glad Accepted is on here though.

[@Nightengale90]

Sky High is in my top 5 favorite movies EVER! I've LOVED that movie since the moment I saw it when it came out! Sky High, Captain America the Winter Soldier and The Crow are my favorite superhero movies as well! Sky High is sooo underrated and deserves more love!

[@oriyanbarnes]

9:44 yesssssss i love Aquamarine 😍😍😍 I still want to try the dress thing Also, I'd add Wild Child too

[@chelsealeigh8307]

Wild Child is great. Natasha Richardson’s last movie 😥

[@ProfessorTakatoPalm]

The 2000s was when I was a kid and not only did we have great movies I feel from the 80s 90s and 2000s we had a golden age of cartoons. I miss those days of my life.

[@trippyboi91]

Also: Danielle Panabaker has got to be one of the most unsung teen actresses ever.

[@RomaroBrandon]

Honorable Mentions: I Love You, Beth Cooper, Accepted, 17 Again, and Juno.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Crazy/beautiful is such a good film and so underrated 💙💙

[@angelaholmes8888]

Bend it like Beckham is so good ⚽️

[@rwwilson21]

Saved! is a great movie.

[@alvacardona6243]

"Saved!", "Ghost World", and "Orange County" are some of my favorite movies.

[@meld0507]

I love Eurotrip I still break out singing Scotty doesn’t know at random times!

[@chelsealeigh8307]

It’s definitely on several playlists on my phone 😂 One of Matt Damon’s best random movie cameos, even though he wasn’t the one singing.

[@roeiirani7505]

Sky high was my first English movie

[@chasehedges6775]

Awesome, man. It’s a super underrated movie

[@AHufflepuffAndASwiftie]

I LOVE Sydney White 🍎 & Sky High 🦸🏼‍♂🦸🏼‍♀!! 😀❤ & Aquamarine!! 🌊🐚

[@brokenbridge6316]

I've seen Sky High and loved it back in the day. I'd still watch it today.

[@leonardolim8976]

Sky high is one of my favorite Disney superhero aside from the incredibles

[@waittillfamewtf2385]

❄️ "Ice Princess" (2005)

[@vladimyrsimon568]

Definitely Sky high

[@jeongtris77]

Sydney white is a comfort movie 💚

[@SammiePopCulture]

I'm happy 'Loser' made the list, it is my favourite Jason Biggs movie and yay for a few others 'Slackers' , 'Ghost World' , 'Whip It' and 'Saved'

[@eugeniapatroncosta920]

I like Sky High, that movie deserve more respect.

[@thewanderer2020]

Great list, I've seen almost all of these and own roughly half of them.

[@trinaq]

Thanks for giving Whip It some love, it sadly gets overlooked, and Elliot Page delivers a fantastic performance.

[@oliviamiller1388]

Sky High is My Most Favorite of all the Superhero Movies because it's so light hearted and dosen't always have to go onto always having everything in the Movie being serious or having to connect anything always together like that always have to do in the DC and Marvel Comics Movies Universes! And also the Villain Royal Pain's plans for using the The Pacifier to turn The Commander, Jetstream, and also many many many of the Other different Superheroes of Sky High back into babies in their daipers is so really really really good adorable for seeing in the 2005's Movie Sky High!!!

[@GoddessGirl2121]

Some I would have included are Boys and Girls, Down to You, Charlie St. Cloud, 17 Again, and the Baywatch movie from 2017. Because Boys and Girls and Down to you are both fun movies that gifs Freddie Prinze Jr. a chance to shine, Charlie St. Cloud shows that Zac Efron can play a mature and layered character and the movie hits me in the feels every time, and 17 Again and Baywatch are hilarious every time I watch them! Also a final mention for 2003’s What a Girl Wants as a great and funny father/daughter movie.

[@spencerwanlass4532]

This list is movies from '00-'09. I agree with your choices, but I think most of them came out later than '09.

[@GoddessGirl2121]

@@spencerwanlass4532 Actually in case you wondered I just looked it up because I wasn’t sure myself and Boys and Girls and Down to You came out in 2000, 17 Again came out in 2009, and Charlie St. Cloud came out in 2010. So even if the later ones don’t fit this list the first two could’ve been honorable mentions at least if they didn’t make the actual list.

[@oliviamiller1388]

What about Holes, Ice Princess, and also lastly too The Prince and Me, The Prince and Me Royal Wedding, Agent Cody Banks, Agent Cody Banks Destination London, Serving Sarah, and also finally Hit and Run, You Again, and When in Rome!

[@SailorSaturn143]

I am a middle school teacher and I show Sky High on half days to my students. They always love it! A lot of them tell me they thought it would be bad but ended up really liking it

[@dawnjensen6560]

Some great movies on this list and some I’ve never heard of but now want to watch. Eurotrip, Accepted, Sky High, and Saved are some of my favorite movies.

[@sharonzona4346]

I was disappointed that Juno wasn't on the list. It would be my number 1.

[@olvialee7221]

169: I love Sky High. Watched it all the time while my mom was doing art

[@jonl4204]

Girl Next Door, Accepted and Eurotrip I like but do like some others.. Fired Up is also underrated that could have been included.

[@TributesAndUnique]

I specifically remember there being a lot of buzz around Aquamarine when I was in the fourth grade among the girls in my grade. And Sky High has always been a fun movie to watch!

[@lilyperez19]

I forgot how good these movies were 😊 aquamarine and sky high are my favorite ❤️

[@Shebeast3]

i enjoyed every moment of charlie bartlette its so well done and has a great cast

[@sifilore9462]

Here's an idea for the next list. The Top 10 or 20 Underrated Superheroines. I would list Halle Barry's Catwoman as member. Just because she's nothing like the Selina Kyle we all know and love, but she was an original, and so was Miss Kitka from the 60's series and gave her full on metahuman catlike powers, whereas Michelle Pfeiffer only had 9 lives.

[@marckye1]

I really like Halle Barry as Catwoman. The concept, her performance as Catwoman. She did what she could. But that movie is atrocious! Direction is terrible, the plot is bad, the script is insufferable and it doesn't have any bearable dialogue. Not even one! They are all cringe!

[@thejenmath]

AKA, 15 films I watch anytime I'm having a shit day. Especially Bandslam, Stick It, Whip It, Accepted, and Sky High.

[@Whitefern1]

Brick is an amazing movie! Saw this underrated gem when it came out and still one of my favorites to this day!

[@adriangarcia543]

I miss 2000

[@chasehedges6775]

Sam here. 2000s were great

[@Mickey-1994]

90s was even better but I would take the 2000s over 2024.

[@KittiesofEvil]

Amazed people don't know Brick. High school noir was fascinating.

[@l05555]

Scottie doesn't know lives rent free in my head

[@zariahnunez5183]

Omg and sky high aquamarine I miss dat movies i want to cry now

[@KevinKlineisawesome]

Aquamarine and Orange County are two of my favorite underrated teen movies.

[@dylanwithlifesince1998]

Here is one missed that deserves more recognition: “Mean Creek” (2004) A group of high school kids are celebrating one’s birthday by going to ride a canoe on a river, but here’s the twist: it’s all a setup to get revenge on a local bully. This is one of those movies that can teach why revenge is not worth it ever, and the consequences to face if it does go through. This movie spoke to me on so many levels, and I believe it will speak to you, too. This film features incredible performances, especially from a pre-Drake & Josh Josh Peck.

[@devontefma6458]

Sky high is childhood classic

[@olvialee7221]

171: I remember Whip It. A long time ago, I love the 2000’s

[@ssm090]

Has no one ever seen Fierce People!?!? Like I was obsessed with that movie!! I guess it wasn’t much of a teen movie since there was no school involved.

[@Katieluv2sing18]

Me and my dad love Sky High Bandslam is good too I love Aquamarine

[@alitmike]

I love Crazy/Beautiful!!

[@triniqueen088]

Omg looove Crazy/Beautiful! One of my all time favorite movies!!

[@belpop]

A 2000s teen movie so underrated it didn’t even get a mention: “Get Over It!”

[@mauri4184]

I’ve seen 13 of the 20 films.

[@olvialee7221]

170: Aquamarine. Haven’t that in years. I love the nostalgia

[@wboardman]

Drive Me Crazy is one of my top underrated movies

[@gigiloveyeah]

Sky high 🥰🥰❤ underrated movie ❤❤ such a masterpiece

[@cmcmahon66]

Loved seeing Ghost World, Brick, and Sky High playing n here. But where was East A?

[@thefalloutt]

brick is such an underrated gem, one of my favorite joseph gordon- levitt films! i also adore manic, it’s actually my third favorite film of joseph’s, and i just rewatched it yesterday. such a realistic and beautiful film.

[@sugamamasbabycrow4957]

13:45 "Why are you alive?" Well sir pls see his mother about that question 🧍‍♀️

[@trippyboi91]

I LOVE the woman who plays Jess’ mom in Bend it Like Beckham.

[@cpma5094]

I love Bend it like Beckham

[@melissaleonard8562]

Dakota Skye, How to Deal, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Sleepover, Wild Child, Hey, Hey It's Esther Blueburger

[@angelaholmes8888]

Stick it is such a cool film and yes jeff bridges is awesome

[@Mickey-1994]

Manic is a movie that I forgot about but I remember liking it. So weird to see Joseph and Zooey so young.

[@aaronmartin7086]

I like how they had The girl next door about a teen guy hooks up with an adult film star followed up with Ghost world about social isolation and depression.

[@GrilledChickenRamyun]

Sydney White and Accepted are my favsss

[@angelaholmes8888]

Anton yelchin was great in charlie Bartlett that film is so underrated

[@aliceramdom.s]

don't call a flim/movie "ghost world" if there is NO GHOSTS IN IT.

[@zariahnunez5183]

Omg stick it got me into gymnastics buuuuut never tried sadly where I am we don't have dat here sooooooooooo I just flipped around my yard

[@jessicapierce3027]

Some of these movies I absolutely love and still watch regularly, and others I've completely forgotten about. I thought the 90's were a great time for teen movies, but the 00's blew that decade out of the water.

[@zariahnunez5183]

I fucking love eurotrip I still sing scotty doesn't know every chance I get

[@gigikagriff]

seen quite a few of these and hadn't thought of them in a long time, what a throwback. used to love eurotrip back in the day. feeling like a need to rewatch ghost world as an adult, will probably understand and appreciate it more. also i'm that cliché person that shockingly goes "omg they look sooo young" at every single face i recognize. but in aquamarine emma looks like a baby, i felt old lol would add "nick and norah's infinite playlist", and probably others that i can't think of right now and if there's ever going to be a 2010-2019 list, "it's kind of a funny story" and "the art of getting by" would be in mine

[@dianastc3710]

Zooey deschanel was always so good in Indi films

[@TheMFStudios]

I thought I was the only person who LOVED Loser. Great movie

[@jennieorlando790]

I'm a simple person. I see Sky High in the thumbnail, I click.

[@attagirl8620]

I loved Saved! So glad that it topped this list. Looking forward to watching some of these movies!

[@madreh7549]

omg I love "Scotty doesn't know" and also the film is so funny , I watched at least 10 times

[@JSPokemonYT]

I LOVE SKY HIGH (2005)!!!!!

[@xochiquetzallaunica]

Eurotrip!!! Matt Damon! Hilarious 😂 😃

[@KorinaKoriiiina]

I'm so glad Saved! is on this list. It's an amazing movie ❤

[@acousticmonkey2209]

I love Sky High. Put it on one Christmas expecting it to be something I had on in the background while I tidied my room. It didn't get tidied until the movie finished 😂. So much fun and entertainment in a small package. The fact some of the cast went on to actual DC shows and movies, and features actors like Bruce Campbell and Patrick Warburton makes it all the better.

[@sarahramsey9454]

seen hardly out of all but beastly just my luck save the last dance also like this as well

[@NassimPanda]

Adventureland should be top 3 !

[@chelsealeigh8307]

Saved! is one of my favorite movies of all time. Glad it was #1! I’d have put Whip It at #2, though. Great movie, filmed near my hometown (I actually saw Drew and Elliot at a bar while they were filming! There were probably other cast members there that I wouldn’t have recognized at the time, too).

[@zunairsyed4130]

No timestamps and no list in description, this is so convenient

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

I love sky high best moive

[@chasehedges6775]

Sky High is a childhood classic

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

@@chasehedges6775 yes!

[@erickbuckner4485]

@@rukiakuchiki6187Sky High is my childhood superhero movie

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

@@erickbuckner4485 nice