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Best Teen Comedy Movies on Paramount+

Every teen comedy movie streaming on Paramount+ in the US right now — 28 films ranked by rating, checked against Paramount+’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Paramount+ US

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 83% 1h 43m

Directed by John Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe fourth-wall breaks and parade sequence exemplify the genre's anarchic energy and protagonist's infectious rule-breaking charisma.

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 26m

Directed by David Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist non-sequiturs and visual gags define the comedy, not teen angst—wrong genre entirely.

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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Mean Girls (2004)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 84% 1h 37m

Directed by Mark Waters

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFetch, burn book, and cafeteria taxonomy weaponize high school social mechanics into sharp satirical comedy.

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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Elf (2003)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 37m

Directed by Jon Favreau

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFish-out-of-water earnestness weaponized: Buddy's innocent wonder exposes adult cynicism with deceptive warmth.

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.

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The Kings of Summer (2013)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 76% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 35m

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCaptures the bittersweet rite-of-passage adventure through authentic teen male friendship dynamics and the inevitable clash between freedom and responsibility.

Three restless teenagers run away to the woods for the summer, determined to escape their parents and live by their own rules. In a hidden clearing, they build a makeshift house and attempt to create an independent life, testing their friendship, freedom, and the challenges of living off the land.

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Kinky Boots (2005)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 47m

Directed by Julian Jarrold

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a teen comedy; adult coming-of-age film about inheriting a business.

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) (1980)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 15m

Directed by Phil Roman

✦ MovieMuse AI takePeanuts charm translates to fish-out-of-water humor—Charlie Brown's neurotic vulnerability anchors fish-out-of-water comedy abroad.

Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty and Marcie travel to France as foreign exchange students. Also along is Snoopy and Woodstock. While everyone is excited about the opportunity to travel to a foreign country, Charlie is disturbed by a letter he receives from a mysterious girl from France who invites him as a her guest only to find that he does not seem welcomed to her Chateau.

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Son of Rambow (2007)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 35m

Directed by Garth Jennings

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes the found-footage format to satirize adolescent male friendship, ambition, and the absurdity of indie filmmaking dreams.

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Clueless (1995)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 37m

Directed by Amy Heckerling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCher's makeover montage and matchmaking schemes showcase the genre's love of transformation and teenage narcissism.

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 26m

Directed by David Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisual absurdism and non-sequiturs drive laughs; teenager-alienation irrelevant to sketch-comedy formula.

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Three Months (2022)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 44m

Directed by Jared Frieder

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBalances weed-comedy levity with genuine emotional weight, capturing Gen-Z teen authenticity without sacrificing satirical edge.

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.

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Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 48% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 43m

Directed by Tony Scott

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a teen comedy.

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

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Honor Society (2022)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 38m

Directed by Oran Zegman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeconstructs the overachiever archetype through scheming montages that parody prestige-obsessed teen culture and ruthless social climbing.

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 23m

Directed by Peter Segal

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist spy-comedy; no teen elements—retirement/prison plot aimed at adult audiences exclusively.

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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Jinxed (2013)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 2.6 1h 10m

Directed by Stephen Herek

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses magical-curse comedy to explore Murphy's law of teen disaster—escalating chaos becomes metaphor for adolescent life spiraling.

Meet the Murphys, a family with never ending bad luck. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong," it's Murphy's law! Over a century ago a witch put a magical curse on their great-great grandfather and the whole family has been jinxed for generations! After Meg Murphy (played by Big Time Rush's Ciara Bravo) and her family's house is destroyed in yet another freak accident, the family moves into their grandfather's house in Harvest Hills. In a not-so-strange case of bad luck, Meg's nemesis Ivy is also spending the summer in town. But things start to look up, kind of, when Meg meets a local boy named Brett and he casts another spell on her, a love spell that is! With help from her brother Charlie, Meg more determined than ever, must break the hex on her catastrophically cursed family! Watch this doomed teen try for a normal existence in a world full of hijinks!

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Harlem Nights (1989)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 27% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 56m

Directed by Eddie Murphy

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a teen comedy; adult crime drama set in 1920s Harlem.

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

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Harriet the Spy (1996)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 47% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 41m

Directed by Bronwen Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCaptures the mortification of social exile through a notebook—the ultimate teen anxiety made tangible and devastating.

When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?

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Blurt! (2018)

IMDb 6.0 Letterboxd 2.3 0h 46m

Directed by Michelle Johnston

✦ MovieMuse AI takePremise itself is teen-comedy gold: the unfiltered-thoughts gimmick weaponizes social anxiety as pure comedic catastrophe.

When nice-guy Jeremy Martin puts on mysterious virtual reality glasses at the mall, he suddenly loses his “inside voice” and starts spouting every thought he has out loud. Making matters worse, Jeremy is running for student council president against his classmate Milly, who is full of great ideas to improve the school. Desperate to get back to normal, Jeremy and his sister Victoria must figure out how to convince his brain that he can speak up for himself.

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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010)

IMDb 5.9 Letterboxd 2.6 1h 26m

Directed by Eric Bross

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTaps campy monster-lore enthusiasm to parody teenage genre-obsession and fish-out-of-water culture shock.

A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.

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Good Burger (1997)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 33% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 35m

Directed by Brian Robbins

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEarnest fast-food underdog narrative with genuine heart—proves slacker comedy succeeds when teens fight for something real.

Two L.A. teens with summer jobs at Good Burger try to save their small restaurant when a corporate giant burger franchise moves in across the street.

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Liar, Liar, Vampire (2015)

IMDb 5.7 Letterboxd 2.3 1h 6m

Directed by Vince Marcello

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExploits viral reputation mechanics—the gap between perception and reality drives relatable teen identity comedy.

When ordinary boy Davis suddenly becomes famous at school as people start to believe he's actually a vampire, vampire expert Cameron helps him act like a real vampire.

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Mean Girls (2024)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 68% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 53m

Directed by Arturo Perez Jr.

✦ MovieMuse AI takeClique taxonomy and social-hierarchy dissection remain definitive; the plastic-vs-person conflict perfectly encapsulates adolescent belonging anxiety.

New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

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Rufus (2016)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 43% Letterboxd 2.3 0h 42m

Directed by Savage Steve Holland

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMagical-pet wish-fulfillment angle subverts lonely-new-kid trope through surreal friendship comedy.

Manny has moved to a new school, and it's not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny's not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus's silly dog antics -- chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a soccer ball with his mouth -- he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog's loyalty to his owner always comes first.

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Expelled (2014)

IMDb 4.7 Letterboxd 1.9 1h 25m

Directed by Alex Goyette

✦ MovieMuse AI takePranking-as-rebellion framework lets kids orchestrate elaborate schemes—the lie-to-parents escalation anchors relatable teen deception comedy.

Felix is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.

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College (2008)

IMDb 4.6 🍅 5% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 34m

Directed by Deb Hagan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCollege-campus tourism captures that specific teen threshold moment—glimpsing adulthood and discovering it's messier than expected.

A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen.

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A Loud House Christmas (2021)

IMDb 4.5 Letterboxd 1.9 1h 4m

Directed by Jonathan Judge

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot strictly teen; animated family comedy.

Lincoln Loud gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride embark on a mission to preserve the family’s holiday traditions.

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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024)

IMDb 4.1 🍅 54% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 39m

Directed by Wade Allain-Marcus

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSibling-chaos management becomes empowerment narrative—teen-girl responsibility comedy subverts the burdensome trope into comedic agency.

Seventeen year old Tanya's plans for a carefree summer are derailed when her stressed-to-the-limit mom takes off for a wellness retreat and puts Tanya and her three siblings in the charge of a crotchety (and racist) old babysitter. The babysitter’s sudden death leaves the kids short on cash and reluctant to pull mom prematurely out of her much-needed R&R, so Tanya is forced to get a job. Posing as an adult, she gets a gig as the executive assistant at a fashion company and overnight is thrust into the world of adulthood and parenting.

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A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011)

IMDb 3.8 Letterboxd 1.6 0h 57m

Directed by Savage Steve Holland

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFairy-godparent-wish mechanics allow satirizing teen desires; magical comedy translates adolescent fantasy into absurdist consequence humor.

The television movie is set in the city of Dimmsdale and centers on the series' main protagonist Timmy Turner with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda and his fairy godbrother Poof. In the movie, Timmy is now 23 years old but is still in fifth grade with his fairy-obsessed fifth grade teacher Mr. Crocker. Despite being grown up, Timmy finds a loophole in the fairy rulebook Da Rules: if he continues to act like a kid, he will still get to keep his fairies. However, the dilemma rises when Tootie, who was once a dorky girl when she was 10 years old, returns to Dimmsdale as an attractive woman. Timmy falls in love with her, a sign that he is growing up to an adult, which means he is closer to losing his fairies. Meanwhile, an oil business tycoon named Hugh J. Magnate, Jr., who teams up with Mr. Crocker, plans to use Timmy's fairies' magic in order to promote his oil business.

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