"Wet Hot American Summer"

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alex you should watch heavyweights, it's funnier

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm tempted to call it the funniest film this decade, but note that I only saw it the once, and also I do not see many "funny" films. But it made me laugh A LOT.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

the drug scene was great!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I made it as far as Molly Shannon's first scene (recently divorced Arts & Crafts teacher). Weak. Really weak.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i liked crazy guy with the soup can

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(albeit not a Jewish one)

well there you go.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this movie is fucking great!

specifically the MONTAGE where COOP tries to get the GIRL.

planescapin' 'til dawn (Homosexual II), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

molly shannon's stuff is great in this movie, and just gets better and better as the movie goes on

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

however, alex, if you find that this movie is not to your taste, may i suggest james cameron's aliens?

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

:::rimshot:::

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

ALEX, U BEEEYATCH GO GET SOME BEERS AND SUCK IT UP AND FINISH THAT BITCH.

S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahahaha...that's almost enough to convince me to.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

we've missed you carey

Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

THe j. garafalo and davidh pee scenes can be skipped but if you are in a happy non expecting mood the film is brilliant. MY MOM would be MAD AT U for renting or BUYING THE MOvie and not APPRECIATING IT or even watching it all the way through. U KJNOW BECAUSE SOMEONE could have lost their job in the last 10 years and where would we all be???

S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Carey is back for the attack! AND SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

MY MOM would be MAD AT U

Is your Mom Prince?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Carey, are you drunk again?

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Patchy for sure, but I liked it. Some of the jokes worked, others didn't, but I liked the details as much as anything else -- the kids all had the exact right clothes and haircuts for camper-age kids in 1981 or whatever the date was. And the songs were right too -- "Jukebox Hero"! Totally what 7th-grade boys were listening to that year. I guess I liked that it was so affectionate not just to the genre it was sending up but to the whole particular time and place (or how that time and place seemed to a pre-teen or young adolescent).

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought it was hilarious. Better third act than most of these types of films. Paul Rudd was my favorite. I'm having a hard time thinking of a scene in it that I didn't like.

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never been to a summer camp in my life.

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link

blount, do you really think heavyweights is funnier? it's definitely more aggressively homoerotic and might be more truly naughty/subversive, but for haha i think it pales.

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

dude them fat kids on that trampoline thing? that shit's hilarious man, plus i'm a big judd apatow fan so connecting nearly every cast member in it to either ben stiller show, larry sanders, or freaks and geeks.

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh man, it's about time I watched Heavyweights again.

WHAS has some great bits, but like all Michael Showalter-related projects, it feels a bit like a missed opportunity.

C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

was it funny? yeah i guess. did i laugh? no. would i see it again? if i have to.

these movies that keep on telling us they're "Future Cult Classics!!!!" are hit and miss. this one was just meh-inducing okay. so miss.

lemin (lemin), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I love that movie. I need it on dvd.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"white people drive like this..."

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember not being completely convinced until near the end of the movie, but I love the whole thing now.

Did you get to the scene where they go to town, Alex?

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i liked how everything that happened was supposed to have taken place in one day, and the town scene was supposed to have happened between the hours of like 10 and 11 in the morning or something. and j.g. and d.h.p have a full-on five-month-esque relationship over the course of one day. and the gay sex scene was of course classic.

rudd ("andy") keeps losing kids and taking their buddies for a ride off the side of the road... the short dude from the state on the motorcycle trying to catch up with the other dude... the nerds rolling their 20-sided die? i mean, i just don't get how you can't like it.

yes, alex. i don't know you, but over the course of writing this post, i have decided that you ARE, in fact, old.

joe schlamola, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I love this movie. Paul Rudd is hilarious in this.

Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Spotty at best (and I loved The State). Garofolo and Hyde-Pierce bits are awful. Funny: campers drowning & tossed from van; cafeteria worker's first scene; Michael Agger's review.

W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Pretty funny. Paul Rudd is genius. I find the Molly Shannon scenes terrible.

My favorite part is when the goth girl says "that's just one mixtape!" or something.

Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

In it's weaker moments the movie just felt like a bunch of smart, funny people goofing off and taking the jokes way too far. I loved the day-off counselor drug binge though.

Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

My only summer camp experiences were week long Boy Scout deals, so I suppose I had a Wimpy Homoerotic American Summer at best.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

wait a minute... a parody of comedies?
what's that all about?

LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno, I didn't think much of it when I first saw it, but seeing bits and pieces of it on cable have brought me around. Rudd is a total phys-com genius here, and while it maybe works a little too hard sometimes (the inappropriate-malaprop-spouting psycho chef thing gets more tired everytime I see it), the little character-based jokes (did I just type that?) and absurdities start to work their magic with repeated exposure. And then there's David Hyde-Pierce shouting "Fuck my cock!" out of nowhere, which is guaranteed spit milk for no good reason I can explain.

Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

alex would probably hate Super Troopers.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Best parts not mentioned specifically so far:
- Janeane and dude freaking out and running around the office screaming and knocking things over.
but especially...
- Rudd acting all disgusted when Janeane makes him clean up the mess in the cafeteria.

n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

And then there's David Hyde-Pierce shouting "Fuck my cock!" out of nowhere, which is guaranteed spit milk for no good reason I can explain.

Unfortunately I have ended up saying this a lot because of this movie.

Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, not a lot. But then more than once is probably a lot in this case.

Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I admit that line does sound good. (I was savagely indifferent to The State outside of a promo they did which parodied The Conversation brilliantly but have heard enough good things about the film.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know. Maybe I gave up on it too early, but it doesn't sound that way.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Not that I loved it or will defend it much, but if you didn't get to the part where they let the camper drown in the lake, you gave up too early.

W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't be bothered to try again, honestly. If it didn't hook me in after after twenty-five minutes, I doubt anything else will (and there was plenty to be let down by in those first twenty-five minutes anyway). When the best thing your film has got going for itself is an airing of "Jane" by Jefferson Starship, you know you're in big trouble.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

you taste like burger...I don't like you anymore

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

- Rudd acting all disgusted when Janeane makes him clean up the mess in the cafeteria.

yes!!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep thinking of being Paul Rudd's character in this for Halloween.
I couldn't be Gene but I'd love to see someone go as him. SHUT UP AND EAT THE FUCKIN' CORN! Anybody besides me and Helltime watch this with the optional Fart Track on the DVD?

TOMBOT, Friday, 12 November 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw it on video, but I heard about the fart track (and that it was a hoot).

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Caped Boy: Excuse me, ladies. You may remember me as the guy who came to dinner a few weeks ago with underwear on my head. My name is Keith Stat from Millburn, New Jersey. State bird, the mosquito. And as you may have heard I am recently a crowned class B dungeon-master. So if any of you would like to play D&D today, please speak now or forever hold your peace.
[He chuckles, and there is an awkward silence at the table]
Caped Boy: Anyone? Alexa!
[Alexa gives him a withering glare]
Caped Boy: Maybe you would like to join in? We do need a druid, and you have definitely cast a level 5 charm spell on me.
Alexa: In your dreams, douche-bag!
Caped Boy: Douche-bags are hygienic products, I take that as a compliment. Thank you.
[Keith walks off]
Alexa: Ewww!

miccio (miccio), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Best parts not mentioned specifically so far:
- Janeane and dude freaking out and running around the office screaming and knocking things over...
-- n/a (nu...), November 12th, 2004. (later)

n/a otm!!

THE PHONE!! THE FUCKING PHONE!!!

also...Can you get me Lube? For my Pussy!!

The MOVIE so PWNZZZZZ.

ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i agree with alex. this movie was desperately overhyped, but it did deliver occasionally. supertroopers is much, much better.

j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked Search Party!

a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link

Haven't seen Search Party but Wain isn't involved, right? WHAS humor feels very Wainy.

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link

Deegs was funny

na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link

i really enjoyed the first half of this, the second half had its moments but got a little bogged down in plot and had too much reagan/bush instead of just stupid jokes which is all i care about

christopher meloni was once again the all-star, him fighting the can in the winnebago was amazing

na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link

or in the last episode when the restaurant kitchen door swings open and you see emphatically tossing a salad

na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link

xxp showalter is def the most sentimental of the 3 of them. wain is the goofiest i think? probably the humor closest to mine. ian black seems v snarky + dismissive. i love them all. (thought search party was okay but not okay enough to get past the 5th episode.)

Mordy, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link

My favorite part was Meloni and Pine bobbing in unison and saying "come oooon" when they were downloading the bunker blueprint.

Also Schwartzman's wave at Garofalo when they were watching the nuke in the sky.

Evan, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link

Oh and Meloni meeting his daughter and not getting it. Meloni was insanely good throughout.

Evan, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link

my favorite really dumb joke that made me laugh a lot was "can i use your bathroom? i really need to ... take a bath"

na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link

"Full Professor Henry Newman"

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link

loved how the nanny murder was the one plot point that wasn't hand-waved away

Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link

these blueprints ... are literally kicking my ass

na (NA), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link

david hyde pierce calling in from home with emmys in the background was my favorite part of anything ever

Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link

+mustache removal

Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link

loved how the nanny murder was the one plot point that wasn't hand-waved away

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:50 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

gbx, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link

Thanks for that link Evan. The song i'm looking hasn't been posted yet but hopefully soon

Vinnie, Friday, 11 August 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link

this is really great so far, three eps in. i am loving the 90s references, they are delivered with the perfect amount of deadpan ironic nostalgia. i think it helps that it's gen x stuff from this generation of comedians.

lol that acoustic "rrreah reeeah reaah" song

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link

i bingewatched this and thoroughly enjoyed it, but think it was a lil less funny than last year's version.

Karl Malone, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link

Alyssa Milano was a fantastic new addition

Karl Malone, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link

yeah Milano was awesome.

they really upped the ante w the action movie stuff here. at one point Chris Pine was really OVER emphasizing certain WORDS and i realized he was doing a Keanu Reeves lol. ofc Schwartman plugs his head into a computer to hack.

lol everyone watching the download screen going "Come on! Come on!"

alo really loved the ending when the characters were asking Ronald Reagan to explain all their plothole questions.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 August 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link

I had the opposite experience to last season - I thought this started bad and got better as it went along. The storm episode is maybe an all-time WHAS highlight. The whole terrifying "shit on my shit, shit on my shit" bit is still making me laugh. In the last episode, "the food critic review is in - very delicious!" is like one of the great non-sequitur deliveries of our time.

Also, fight scenes were pretty good! That I wasn't expecting.

Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 August 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link

This had some great stuff in it, but (also) think on the whole it was weaker than the first season.

The confrontation between Bush, Reagan, and the camp ppl towards the end felt like it went on for three episodes and was mostly not funny.

circa1916, Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link

ur not funny

Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link

The longer that sequence went the funnier it got because it just added to the goofy absurdity.

Evan, Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link

Yeah idk, looking forward to a rewatch. Some stuff in the first season didn't really land for me on the first go around, but I got a lot more out of it when I rewatched it a few weeks ago.

circa1916, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link

The confrontation between Bush, Reagan, and the camp ppl towards the end felt like it went on for three episodes and was mostly not funny.

I think it's a good joke...it was just the exact same joke that they used at the end of the prequel and jon hamm delivered it better

iatee, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link

"Okay, I’m hearing you, and what I’m hearing is that what is bothering you is that many lives were lost. Now I don’t have an answer that I feel is going to satisfy you…"

iatee, Saturday, 19 August 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link

Watched the making of on Netflix the other day, really enjoyed it. Then I went to watch the original film and it wasn't on Netflix canada blaaaaag

-_- (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 19 August 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link

it isn't on Netflix in the US either

Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

loved it, though probably not as much as First Day of Camp. Chris Pine was the MVP in all his scenes. those Keanu-esque line readings....

lmao @ David Hyde Pierce's cameo too.

nomar, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link

Not even a big fan of this franchise but the first episode or two of this was the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time

Favorite detail: the made-up Spin Doctors song that plays during the upbeat kitchen montage

Evan R, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link

six years pass...

day...bi-det

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:11 (three months ago) link


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