The year was 1999. Some of us were waiting for our dial-up to connect to The Internet while rewinding our Blockbuster VHS rental of Theres Something About Mary and listening to Britney Spears ... Baby One More Time on our Sony Walkman.

Some of us at the time were teens who scraped together $5 every time a movie poster with bright, youthful faces flanked our local cinema. There were a lot of them during the last year of the 20th century: 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, Never Been Kissed, American Pie.

But only one of those films can be credited with ushering in a hyper-era of teen flicks, and that is Shes All That . Premiering on Jan. 29, 1999, the movie tells a story thats felt rote since the dawn of teenage-perspective movies. Neurotic high school jock Zack Siler (post-I Know What You Did Last Summer Freddie Prinze Jr.) bets his oafish buddy Dean Sampson (Paul Walker) that he can turn the purportedly underwhelming, glasses-wearing artist Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook) into the schools prom queen, a vendetta inspired to irk Zachs ex-girlfriend Taylor Vaughan (Jodi Lyn OKeefe).

Its a classic tale of adolescent popularity run heinously amok, punctuated by the mother of all teen movie tropes: a perfectly choreographed prom dance.

Despite initial critiques , Shes All That hit No. 1 at the box office during its debut week and grossed over $103 million worldwide making those at Miramax (including a now disgraced producer named Harvey Weinstein ) very happy. Its theater success and subsequent Blockbuster rental appeal all but ensured that every kid with access to a VHS player could memorize the moves to a song no one remembers being called The Rockafeller Skank.

The prom scene, choreographed by then-newcomer and now very successful director Adam Shankman , featured a 1960s inspired number set to Fatboy Slims ill-titled song. It was orchestrated, in part, by the one and only Usher Raymond . Lil Kim danced in line; Gabrielle Union followed. Even Anna Paquin made a quick stop-by.

The scene so perfectly encapsulates the teen movie wave of 1999 with its indulgent premises, unrealistic leading characters and wildly unrelatable high school conflict which is why HuffPost took a trip down memory lane to discuss the making of the sequence with Shes All That cast and crew members, including Cook, Shankman and director Robert Iscove.

Dust off your boombox, crank some Sixpence None the Richer and pour yourself a Yoo-hoo because, right about now, the funk soul brother... or whatever.