30 Hilarious Movies Like Project X
Project X is one of the best teen comedies of all time. It’s crazy hilarious! Well, if you watched it, you actually know and probably want more of the similar. Well, you are in the right place, because in this article, we are bringing you the best movies like Project X you can find out there.
We can only expect the best entertainment from the director of The Hangover. This time they take us to the world of the craziest teenage parties. Three high school seniors throw a birthday party to become popular. As the night progresses, things get out of hand, and word of a good party spreads fast.
You will find some well-known names when it comes to teen comedies on this list, but we also have a few unexplored gems for you to watch. So, check them out below, and have fun watching other movies similar to Project X.
Animal House (1978)
In 1962, there are two student fraternities at Faber College – the elite Omega with the most excellent students, and the despised Delta, where libertines, rebels and losers gather.
At the head of Omega are geeks Greg Marmalard and Doug Niedermeyer, and at the head of Delta formally is Robert Hoover, but the main faces are Eric Stratton aka Otter, Donald Schoenstein aka Boon and John Blutarsky aka Bluto. The corrupt dean Vernon Wormer wants to destroy Delta and expel its members from the college, and in these plans, he relies on the leaders of Omega…
Risky Business (1983)
Meet Joel Goodsen, a hard-working seventeen-year-old with honors, a responsible and reliable son… Meet Lana, young, desirable, picky and full of life experience. Joel (Tom Cruise) has two goals in life: to get into college and to have sex – which until now was just a fantasy.
But Joel’s parents go on vacation and leave the house in his care. What Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) will teach Joel about sex and the free initiative of the new age is every parent’s nightmare and a very risky business.
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Samantha Baker, aka Sam, is about to face the fact that her entire family has forgotten that today is her sixteenth birthday. Mom, Dad, little brother, and visiting grandparents, all focused on her older sister’s wedding.
Sam goes to school, where she confides in her best friend that she is in love with Jake Ryan, one of the most popular students. She is convinced that Jake never even noticed her next to his attractive girlfriend, but that is not true. Enterprising first-grader Ted also caught Sam’s eye.
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
After her boyfriend cancels her date with an unconvincing excuse, seventeen-year-old Chris (E. Shue), despite having decided to stop working as a nanny, agrees to spend the evening babysitting the children of family acquaintances in the suburbs.
As soon as Chris arrives at their house and his parents leave for a party, she receives a call from her friend Brenda (P. A. Miller), who is in trouble and begs Chris to drive into town to pick her up. Not wanting to leave his friend in the lurch, Chris put the children in his car and headed down the highway toward the city center.
House Party (1990)
Kid (Christopher Reid) is invited to a party at his friend Play’s (Christopher Martin) house. Excited for the party, Kid has no idea what will happen the next day. He becomes an actor in a fight at school, after which his father punishes him.
The Kid still decides to refuse to obey his father and sneaks out of the house after his father falls asleep. But everything goes wrong when three bullies from school decide to teach Kid to be smart. What was supposed to be a great party turned into a big problem.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
It was the last day of school in 1976, a day that wild teenagers would never forget if only they could remember it from the heavy drugs and alcohol that almost burned their brains. It’s about pure enjoyment in one of the best movies about high school wild parties and growing up.
Friday (1995)
Just fired from his job, Craig (Ice Cube) and his best friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) spend Friday smoking marijuana in their neighborhood in South Central, Los Angeles.
Before the sun goes down, Craig will have to find $200 to repay the debt to the dealer, get a job so that his parents don’t kick him out of the house, avoid his girlfriend in order to seduce another woman’s heart without unnecessary distractions, as well as survive a conflict with neighborhood troublemakers. And that’s just the beginning…
Go (1999)
Like it or not, sometimes you just can’t get out of a situation you didn’t even want to be in. All you have to do then is surrender and hope that this ‘wild night’ will end happily. When lazy Simon (Desmond Askew) decides to go to Las Vegas with his friends for Christmas Eve, Ronna (Sarah Polley) takes over his shift at the store.
She expects a quiet evening, but Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) enter the store, intending to buy some drugs from Simon. Ronna decides to solve the situation with the help of her friends Claire (Katie Holmes) and Mannie (Nathan Bexton) and they go to get drugs from the dealer Todd (Timothy Olyphant).
However, it’s actually a trap set by Agent Burke (William Fichtner) to arrest some longtime suspects. In order to get out of the mess without consequence, Ronna tries to trick Todd, which infuriates him. During this time in Vegas, Simon doesn’t quite have the time he’d hoped.
American Pie (1999)
Jim Levenstein (J. Biggs) is a high school senior and, like most of his peers, obsessed with sex. Since he doesn’t have a girlfriend, he only has porn movies left. His father (E. Levy) likes to give him old-fashioned sex lessons when it’s most inconvenient for Jim. So Jim makes a deal with his best friends Kevin (T.I. Nicholas), Finch (E.K. Thomas) and Oz (C. Klein) to lose their virginity until the prom.
However, Kevin has problems with his girlfriend Vicky (T. Reid), Finch is attracted to the mother (J. Coolidge) of their acquaintance Steve (S. W. Scott), Oz falls in love with the beautiful Heather (M. Suvari) who is not even close to a ‘girl for one’ night’, as Jim tries to seduce exchange student Nadia (S. Elizabeth). After the disaster with Nadia, Jim gets closer to Michelle (A. Hannigan), who gives him friendly sexual instructions…
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
School outcast Janey Briggs is an up-and-coming artist who constantly wears glasses, a ponytail, and a paint-stained jumpsuit. She becomes the subject of a bet between All-American football star Jake Wyler and sleazy Austin that she can’t be turned into “prom queen material.”
Packed with hilarious parodies, including Malik, the token black man, Priscilla the slutty head cheerleader, and Les, the weird guy with the camera, this movie is a juicy romp full of twists on classic teen characters and movies.
Barely Legal (2003)
Sue, Cheril, and Leksi, all college freshmen, have always been friends (ever since they were born). Every year they celebrate their birthday together, but this year something special is being celebrated. It is their 18th birthday and they are about to lose their virginity.
Old School (2003)
On his way back from a business trip, Mitch Martin (Luke Wilson) learns that his girlfriend Heidi (Juliette Lewis) is an insatiable nymphomaniac who has been cheating on him for a long time. In order to forget their life together as soon as possible, Mitch finds himself a new house, located on the edge of the local college. Very soon, his friends Frank Ricard (Will Ferrell) and Beanie Campbell (Vince Vaughn) start staying in the house more often, also burdened with personal problems.
Frank is a former party king who, despite his marriage, does not want to give up unrestrained fun, and Beanie is a family man who cannot forget his wild and crazy youth. Soon, Beanie has an unexpected idea – the three of them will form a brotherhood in Mitch’s new house! The idea turns out to be excellent and the house becomes the center of college fun, until the new dean Pritchard (Jeremy Piven) sets his sights on the friends, remembering very well their antics from their student days.
Accepted (2006)
Bartleby Gaines (J. Long) does not have very bright grades, but his parents expect him to go to college, and later to college, and they are ready to pay for it. But Bartleby has received rejections from all the colleges he’s applied to and can no longer bear the look of disappointment on his parents’ faces. So he got the idea to make up the name of the college, so he sent himself a letter that he had been accepted to the South Harmon Institute of Technology. The parents are proud and happy.
He was helped in the fraud by his friend Sherman (J. Hill), who, like his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather before that, managed to enroll in the real Harmon, but his peers do not accept him because he is too fat. The fictional school becomes a way out for some other colleagues who failed to enroll anywhere: Rory (M. Thayer), Daryl (C. Short), Glen (A. Herschman)…
Superbad (2007)
Two high school students Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) are trying to end up with girls before they graduate. They get the opportunity to do so when the most popular girls at school invite them to a graduation party.
However, under one condition, they require that the two of them get alcohol, which is a problem, because they are both minors. Their friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), an even bigger nerd than the two of them, comes to their aid and gets a fake ID. But while he’s buying booze, a thief breaks into the store, the police come, and problems begin that endanger Evan and Seth’s plan to lose their virginity.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
The story revolves around Peter Bretter, who is a music composer for a TV show that happens to feature his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, in the lead role. After a five-year relationship, Sarah abruptly breaks up with Peter.
Devastated by this event, he chooses to go on a vacation in Hawaii, in order to try to move forward with his life. Trouble ensues when he runs into his ex on the island as she is on vacation with her new boyfriend.
Role Models (2008)
Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) are two salesman friends who drunkenly wrecked the company’s truck. After the arrest, they come to court, which determines their sentence: prison or 150 hours of community service as mentors to children.
Although community service seems like a good solution, after just one day spent with these kids, prison doesn’t seem like such a bad choice anymore.
The Hangover (2009)
Two days before his wedding, Doug (Justin Bartha) heads to Las Vegas with his two best friends Phil and Stu (Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms) and future brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) for a wild bachelor party that all four vow to will never forget her.
However, when the three guys wake up the next morning with an unforgettable hangover, none of them can remember anything. Their hotel suite is completely destroyed, and groom Doug is literally nowhere to be found!
Easy A (2010)
After word gets out that the otherwise likable high school student Olive Penderghast (Stone) lied about losing her own virginity, she begins to believe that her life is developing identically to that of the main character in the book “The Scarlet Letter” which she is studying at the same time. However, soon Olive will decide to use the rumor to improve her social and financial status to the utter surprise of many.
Bridesmaids (2011)
Annie (Kristen Wiig) is in her late 30s and – single. After her business with the pastry shop failed, she lost all her possessions, and soon her boyfriend as well. Now she is forced to sell jewelry and live with unbearable roommate Gil (Matt Lucas) and his sister Brynn (Rebel Wilson). After the business collapse, Annie no longer holds out hope that one day she will revive her dream job again.
Her romantic interests are now turned to Ted (Jon Hamm), who is so self-absorbed that he barely notices her. Her only light in the tunnel of life is her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph), who just got engaged and asked Annie to be her godmother. At the engagement party, Annie meets the bridesmaids – cynical cousin Rita (Wendi McLendon-Covey), naive friend Becca (Ellie Kemper), vulgar sister of the groom Megan (Mellissa McCarthy), and the rich and beautiful wife of the groom’s boss, Helen (Rose Byrne).
21 Jump Street (2012)
Schmidt (J. Hill) and Jenko (C. Tatum) went straight out of school to the police academy and met again when they became partners. They are young and look like high school students, so they have the task of infiltrating the circles of drug dealers in order to find out who is selling synthetic drugs to students…
Based on the very popular television series of the 80s, Sony’s 21 Jump Street tells the story of a special unit of young police officers who go on an undercover mission: infiltrating a high school where they control criminal activity among young people…
This Is The End (2013)
Six friends are trapped in a house after a series of strange and cataclysmic events destroy Los Angeles. As the world turns completely upside down, lack of water and food supplies, as well as mutual intolerance, threaten to destroy their friendship…
21 & Over (2013)
Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Miles Teller), friends since their high school days, want to take their friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon), who just turned 21, out and show him what it’s like to have fun when you’re an adult. Although Chang rejects them because he has an interview for admission to medical school, Miller does not give up and the birthday boy relents, but insists on only one drink.
At the bar, Chang accidentally hits Randy (Jonathan Keltz) with a dart, which causes him to go crazy and become aggressive. The three friends go on the run, although Casey doesn’t like it because he just met the attractive Nicole. Jeff is soon overwhelmed by the excitement of being able to go into bars and drink to his heart’s content, so he overdoes it and becomes insane.
Neighbors (2014)
A young family happily welcomes new neighbors. They are cute, young and members of a student fraternity that organizes the best parties in town! While their life turns like a merry-go-round, the confused parents and their little baby try to adapt to the new situation, but also to stop the “cheerful” neighbors before they demolish the entire street and drive them as far away from home and society as possible from hell.
Bad Moms (2016)
Amy Mitchell puts her family first, second and third. She has a seemingly perfect life – a good marriage, above-average children, a beautiful house, great looks and an enviable career. But her childish husband, children and her idiot boss take her for granted. He keeps trying to please them, then pleases them some more, but it’s never enough.
When the alpha mothers at her children’s school annoy her a bit, Amy finally snaps. Good Amy becomes mean Amy very quickly – and not by herself. She decides to join forces with two other overburdened mothers to free themselves from the responsibilities imposed on them and embark on a wild, free-spirited adventure completely atypical of mothers, pitting them against dedicated, perfect moms.
Game Night (2018)
The backbone of the film is a group of friends who meet regularly to spend evenings together with socializing and games. Those evenings are a long-standing tradition for everyone, and at the same time an escape from everyday worries, until one evening they witness an event that will change their lives.
Blockers (2018)
Julie, Sam and Kayla know what their perfect graduation party should look like. Flawless make-up, hairstyle, dress, dancing, great fun and a night where she will finally lose her virginity.
Friends created #SexPakt2018, and pacts made with friends are never betrayed. The juxtaposition of teenage stubbornness and the protective instincts of one mother and two fathers guarantees great entertainment for viewers, no matter whose side they are on.
Big Time Adolescence (2019)
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout.
Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches Mo nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating. Meanwhile, Mo’s well-meaning dad tries to step in and take back the reins of his son’s upbringing.
Good Boys (2019)
After being invited to a “kissing party” for the first time in his life, 12-year-old Max, played by Jacob Tremblay, begins to panic because he doesn’t know how to kiss.
Eager to learn and learn, Max, along with his best friends Thor and Lucas, steals his dad’s drone in order to spy on the couple next door when they are kissing. Of course dad’s drone is a strict “DO NOT APPROACH” zone.
Zola (2020)
t is based on a viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” King and the resulting Rolling Stone article “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted” by David Kushner.
It stars Taylour Paige as Zola, a part-time stripper who is convinced by her new friend (Riley Keough) to travel to Tampa, Florida, in order to earn money, only to get in over her head
Jackass Forever (2022)
Johnny Knoxville and his band of lunatics posed some important questions that were worth answering, such as: What would happen if Steve-O put a swarm of bees on his chin? Or, how do you build a kite that can lift a 186 kg man over a cactus field? Can Knoxville use a magic trick to tame a two-ton bull? (Spoiler: bulls don’t like magic).
In addition to Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason Wee Man Acuna, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey and Dave England also appear in the film, as well as new members Sean Poopies McInerney, Jasper Dolphin and Zach Holmes, and Eric Andre, Tony Hawk, Machine Gun Kelly and Shaquille O’Neill guest star.
