Wet Hot American Summer R

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Wet Hot American Summer
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Universal

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten36%

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Total Count: 72

Upright76%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 39,581
Rating: 5/5 -- This was always more or less destined to be a cult comedy, passed along enthusiastically on video/DVD. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Jul 23, 2007
Structured only by its time frame (the last day of camp) and total commitment to casualness, the movie feels tossed off in the most appealing way, Full Review
Village Voice
Mar 31, 2019
...Wain and Showalter deserve camp kudos for getting the details right...
Rolling Stone
Aug 16, 2001
Fairly hilarious -- if still scattershot -- final reels will leave auds feeling they've gotten their money's worth. Full Review
Variety
May 20, 2008
Rating: B- -- A dumb - and fitfully funny - send-up of an already dumb genre. Full Review
Lessons of Darkness
Jun 20, 2005
...A delectable parody....Hilariously sly....Showalter gives an inspired performance....[A} gleeful and ingenious pop satire...
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 3, 2001
This shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer...this blissfully unimportant movie starts in a deceptively low key, gradually unveiling its total lunacy. Full Review
Newsweek
Mar 7, 2018

Product Description:

The staff members of Camp Firewood, feeling that they have squandered the summer of 1981, are determined to make their last day together count. Crunchy counselor Beth (Jeaneane Garofolo) finds an unexpected love interest in shy, neighboring astrophysicist Neuman (David Hyde Pierce), who is busy tracking an errant piece of Skylab. Elsewhere, everyman Coop (Michael Showalter) pursues longtime crush Katie (Marguerite Monroe), despite her ignoramus boyfriend, Andy (Paul Rudd). Uptight Susie (Amy Poehler) is determined to stage a talent show that will rival the average Broadway production, while divorced arts and crafts instructor Gail (Molly Shannon) seeks love advice from 12-year-old campers. While several counselors make a pilgrimage to a crack house, virginal Gary has an unexpected sexual awakening, and Vietnam veteran cook Gene finds a guiding light in a can of green beans and erotic fulfillment in the refrigerator.

Conceived by Michael Showalter and David Wain, members of comedy troupe THE STATE, WET HOT AMERICAN summer pays tribute to the teen films of the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably the Bill Murray summer camp classic MEATBALLS, with a straight face and an anything-goes brand of comedy. Mixing and matching from a checklist of youth film clichés and turning them into sight gags that often defy time and space, Showalter and Wain have crafted a film that manages to be a consistently funny tribute to the genres it lampoons.

Product Info

  • UPC: 025192365409
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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