Bully and queen Megan, star athlete Colin, artistic outsider Hannah and nerdy Jake. What do they have in common? They’re all in their last year of high school in Warsaw, Indiana. And they’re all struggling with school and life in general.

Being a huge hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Paramount is finally giving American Teen a proper release this summer. It looks like 'A Random MTV Documentary: The Movie', meaning bigger, better and probably a little more professional. Still, it will be a hard sell, since you can see this every other day at home. And it's not like documentaries attract an enormous amount of visitors these days.

From the first reviews however, there seems to be only praise for director Nanette Burstein. Making the 'ordinary' high school life something unique. It seems to be one of those documentaries that captures your attention from the start. And trough all the different characters, deals with all human emotions like Murderball did.

So while this might not be a hit at the box office, it might still be.. yeah, there it is again.. worth the popcorn! And if you are going to see this, you probably like those MTV documentaries too. So in the worst case scenario, you are getting an expensive MTV docu at a big screen with some delicious popcorn. Not the worst night out I can imagine.

Release date: July 25, 2008

Saw the trailer? Rate it!

Worth/not worththe popcorn

I'm a boy/girl

I am young/old

High school is so fun/not fun

Documentaries about something ordinary can be good/bad

MTV is pretty, pretty lame/cool

Always being a teen would be painful/great!

Having my last school year documented would be even more painful/great!