Wet Hot American Summer
Product Description
Camp Firewood. 1981. It’s the last day of camp and everyone is busy. Camp director Beth (Janeane Garofalo) is trying to keep order while falling in love with astrophysicist Henry (David Hyde Pierce). Henry is trying to save the camp from being hit by a piece of SKYLAB hurtling toward Earth. Camp counselor Coop is in love with Katie, who is in love with lifeguard Andy. If that’s not enough, there’s a waterfall rescue, talking vegetable cans, the misfits, the cool kid… More >>
November 10th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
This is my first time rating a movie but after seeing this film I thought obligated to share my thoughts to people thinking about buying this film. “Hot Wet American Summer” was one of those films that really angers you because you wasted a good hour and a half watching it and even more irate if you wasted any kind of money on it. This was no parody, the attempt at humor came off as just being irritating and obnoxious. Since this film was rated R, the film makers should have at least offered some gratutious female nudity which is standard in this genre. Instead they showed an appalling male homosexual sex scene which I quickly fast forwarded. Matter of fact, this film was so bad that I watched more than half of it on 1.5X speed, which is a nice feature on my DVD player. Universal Pictures should be ashamed of themselves and even punished for releasing this film to the public. Also, keep in mind that Amazon required me to give this at least 1 star.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 10th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
This is, without a doubt, one of the worst “films” that I have ever witnessed. The plot, if one can call it that, revolves around that parodying summer camp movies from the late 70’s and early 80’s would be hilarious. And 21 years after they were made! Or, was it an attempt to make a deliberately bad film, and label it “ironic”? Either way, the film has some of the most indifferent, atrocious acting you’re ever likely to see. Janeane Garofalo (who needs to stop associating herself with David Wain and Michael Showalter, the creators of this “film” and the awful TV series, Stella) looks like she rather be anywhere else, David Hyde Pierce looks like he wants to strangle his agent for giving him this script, and you will be lucky to chuckle twice in the entire film. In the featurette, the directors Michael Showalter and David Wain, say they were drunk during most of the shoot, and it shows. Indifferent performances, horrible direction, continuity errors (like Janeane’s character standing on a taped, yellow “X”, hair styles changing in the same shot, hands changing in a simple two shot), and an appalling lack of professionalism sink this film early and it never recovers. The continuity errors are actually funnier than the film itself. There is nothing good about his film, other than it ends. It amazes me that people out there could actually like this film, AND give it five star reviews. It’s one of the most unprofessional, sloppy, badly made films I’ve ever seen. And if some pinhead thinks that the sloppiness of the filmmaking was intentional because the filmmakers were being “ironic”, that pinhead is an imbecile. Those who say that this film is the current generation’s Animal House, well, that’s infinitely depressing, because Animal House had great dialogue, great scenes, and was brilliantly put together, as opposed to WHAS, which has none of that. I laughed maybe 4 times during this film, and they were light chuckles at best. The film has so many slow stretches where we see really bad jokes, lame situations, and just bad acting (or, as a fan of this might say, it’s deliberately bad, it’s “irony”, dude.). Anyone who seriously thinks this is a great film really should examine their lives more closely, as they are obviously confused and in need of help.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
This is, by far, one of the worst movies I have seen. I really don’t know where to begin… so I won’t bother. I’ll simply say DO NOT BUY… you will thank me for this advice.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 11th, 2009 at 1:40 am
It is Friday night, and while I should be immersed in some good ol’ fashioned whiskey drinkin’ and butt kickin’ at my local saloon, I am not. I am sick like dog and I think there’s a correlation between my illness and having watched this movie. I thought it was a funny idea- a spoof of the teen summer camp genre, but unbeknownst to me the hilarity stopped there. The only time I laughed was when my roommates and I said how much this classic blew….Avoid this screen gem at all costs, it may be carcinogenic.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 11th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I bought this DVD based on the reviews; unfortunately, it was a big mistake. While two of my favorite actors were in this movie, the humor failed to make me laugh. It was worse than childish and I got only a couple of chuckles from the movie. I would not watch it again and I would not recommend it to anyone. Be afraid, be very afraid—you have been warned.
Rating: 1 / 5