Wet Hot American Summer
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 16, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni & Molly Shannon | |
Performer: | Ken Marino, Marguerite Moreau, Gideon Jacobs, A.D. Miles, Joe Lo Truglio, Amy Poehler, Michael Ian Black, Zak Orth, Marisa Ryan, Kevin Sussman, Judah Friedlander & Bradley Cooper | |
Directed by | David Wain | |
Edited by | Meg Reticker | |
Screenwriting by | David Wain & Michael Showalter | |
Composition by | Theodore Shapiro & Craig Wedren | |
Produced by | Howard Bernstein | |
Voice: | H. Jon Benjamin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
The writers decided to load the film with a school busload of one-joke characters.
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Big Picture Big Sound
But even with its tackiness arched at an ironic angle, "Wet Hot American Summer's" long-term fate is to become at best a last-minute accessory to a Blockbuster night of pizza and beverages.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hilarious but raunchy parody is filled with sex, profanity.
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Common Sense Media
Fairly hilarious -- if still scattershot -- final reels will leave auds feeling they've gotten their money's worth.
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Variety
The title of this inventive absurdist comedy (2001) is meant to mislead-it's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of its genius.
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Chicago Reader
Where is Jason Voorhess, the hockey-masked killer of Camp Crystal Lake, when you really need him?
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The Moving Picture Show
...Wain and Showalter deserve camp kudos for getting the details right...
Rolling Stone
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.
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.
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