And Five Really Bad Ones ...

"She's Out of Control" (1989)

I'm cheating a little bit here because this teen movie, about a once gawky, nerdy girl who transforms into the hottest chick in high school, is really about her father -- her creepy, unhealthily obsessed, leering father. In studying the changes that some so-called geeky girls experience when they blossom into young womanhood, the movie chooses to use an agitated, sweaty, therapy-seeking Tony Danza, who's so disturbed by his daughter's breasts bouncing in a bathing suit that you realize the movie could be interesting if it were, I don't know, entirely and honestly about incest. I truly feel sorry for any teenage girl who actually sat through this movie with her dad.

"The Hot Chick" (2002)

I was thinking, how is one of the Coreys' movies not making this list? And then I remembered the touching Jason Robards transforming into Corey Feldman and doing that horrific Michael Jackson bleacher dance in "Dream a Little Dream" being much funnier and entertaining than Rob Schneider transforming into a cheerleader and dropping tired, unending gay, ethnic, bathroom and penis jokes in "The Hot Chick." Also, there's just something unsettling and player-hating when Schneider tells us that the prettiest girl in high school is really a bitch.

"Pretty in Pink" (1986)

Don't yell at me. I happen to like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club." And it's painful for me to include any movie on a worst-of list in which character actor legend Harry Dean Stanton appears (and he's wonderful in this movie). But the ending, the ending. Not only do I personally hate it, it's also not consistent with the spirit of the movie. Sure, even spoiled rich boys deserve a second chance, but please. I'm supposed to believe that this creative, pretty girl who sews her own clothes and drives a nifty old car puts up with Andrew McCarthy's drippy pampered-boy embarrassment? I know she's not going to run off with perpetual friend Ducky (though in John Hughes' original ending, she did) but maybe, just maybe, she'll date some interesting older guy in a band. Or get on with her life -- alone. Or, here's a twist -- she could have surprised everyone by pairing up with the evil James Spader after their discussion of his Brooks Brothers-meets-Miami Vice suits revealed a shared passion for fashion design.

"She's All That" (1999)

See, this girl, she's really ugly and weird because she paints and wears glasses. Gross! Sure, she looks just like Rachael Leigh Cook (because she is Rachael Leigh Cook) but still, ugh! Those glasses are sickening. And she's a freak! OK, so I've repeated the running gag of the infinitely superior teen movie spoof, "Not Another Teen Movie," but it's exactly what I was thinking when I watched its object of derision. A movie that gives us the ever-useful instruction that, in order to truly win jock Freddie Prinze Jr.'s heart (even if you began as a bet between Freddie and his obnoxious buddy Paul Walker) all you need to do is take off those glasses and show a little skin. Because, Lord knows, no girl would want to grow up to become as successful and interesting as Tina Fey. She wears glasses!

"She's the Man" (2006)

Oh how I wanted to like this cross-pollination of "Just One of the Guys" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," but alas and alack. Amanda Bynes strapping down her femininity just can't touch the bard. It's not even as good as that other stab at teenage Shakespeare, "10 Things I Hate About You" (which stars a terrific Heath Ledger). The movie in a nutshell is basically Bynes dressed as a boy (so she can get on the soccer team) and clearing her throat a lot to say "guy things" like "I'd tap that" while wasting any chance of offering some kind of interesting commentary concerning gender bending in high school. And I mean any kind. She also looks about 10, which is kind of disturbing.

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Kim Morgan is a film writer who runs MSN's Movies Filter blog and has contributed to many outlets including LA Weekly, Reel.com, DVD Journal, Salon and The Huffington Post. She was a film critic for The Oregonian and served as DVD critic on Tech TV's The Screen Savers. She's also appeared as guest film critic on AMC's The Movie Club, E! Television, Reelz and Ebert & Roeper. You can read her at her blog SunsetGun.com.