Overview
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
I think the unique aspect of this film is that while spoofing so many other kinds of films it managers to avoid becoming exactly like so many other parodies that we’ve seen.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Wet Hot American Summer
Movie title: Wet Hot American Summer
Movie description: The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
Date published: 2018-06-22
Director(s): David Wain
Actor(s): Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd, Zak Orth, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Molly Shannon, Gideon Jacobs, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, Liam Norton, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Marisa Ryan, Elizabeth Banks, Gabriel Millman, Kevin Sussman, Kevin Thomas Conroy, Christopher Cusumano, Cassidy Ladden, Madeline Blue, Nina Hellman, Peter Salett, Judah Friedlander, Jacob Shoesmith Fox, Whitney Vance, Benjamin Coppola, H. Jon Benjamin, Jake Fogelnest, Ian Helfer, Jordan MacLean, Avi Setton, Kyle Gallner, Kathleen Pandolfo, Zachary Montgomery-Wicks, Danny Hopkins, Christopher Connors, Matt Carmeci, Stephen O'Brien, Timothy Gasiewski, Angel Berlane, Christi Berlane, Bob Walz, Joseph Kariuki, Donna Mitchell, Joe Bryan, Christine Loebsack, Sandra Kennedy, Keith Oney, Dan Klein
Genre: Comedy
My Review
I think the unique aspect of this film is that while spoofing so many other kinds of films it managers to avoid becoming exactly like so many other parodies that we’ve seen.
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My Review - 7/10
7/10