Analysis of 3 teen movies

21 Jump Street

The age rating for the movie is 15, its target audience is 15 to 20 year old. The genera of the movie is comedy, action. The reasons as to why this movie is a teen movie and attracts to teens is because it has many different quality that attract to teens. The movie is based in a high school and it is about to under cover cops who try and blend in to bring down a drugs organisation, through out the movie there is a lot of comedy and there are also some action scenes which would attract to male teens. The main characters of the movie is Channing Tatum and Johna Hill; the main charactersteen audiences because they have both stred in teen movies before which will also attract audiences to watch this movie because of familer faces. The movie was a success with teens because it had all the eliments of a funny good teen movie.

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Kidulthood

The age rating for this movie is 15 and is targeted towards 15 to 20 year olds. The main genera of this movie is drama. This movie is based on the stereotypical life that a 15 year old experiences in west London. This movie attracts teenagers because to some teenagers gain an insight into the lives of other teenagers, to other teenagers the movie is a way for them to relate to their lives, this type of movie creates a connection with different audiences because it creates a personal attraction with some audience members to the movie. In the movie the lives of teenagers that live in underprivileged homes are followed as they do there day to day activities and struggle to live through to the next day. This type of movie has a massive impact on audiences and the drama of everything is how the audiences are attracted into watching this movie and making it a success.

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Mean Girls

The age rating for mean girls  is PG-13 and it targeted towards teenage girls. The main genera of the movie is comedy. The movie is based on the lives of teenage girls and the cliques that high school consist of, as well as the effects of the cliques on girls. The movie is successful because it was based of a successful book story and the readers of the book would already be interested in watching the movie as well as young teenage girls being interested because young teenagers can relate to the experiences that the girls in the movie have. The movie was also successful because the main character was a well known actor, Lindsay Lohan having a well known actor is good for movies because the fans of the actor are move likely to watch the movie.

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