Wet Hot American Summer
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Wet Hot American Summer
Directed by: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Poehler, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon and film debut of Bradley Cooper
Released January 19, 2001
Budget: $1.8M ($2.7M in 2021)
Box Office: $295,206 ($$445,400.81 2021), all domestic, as it only opened in less than 30 cities.
Ratings: IMDb 6.6/10 Rotten Tomates 38%
Metacritic 42% Google Users 81%
It was a commercial and critical failure.
Plot:
It starts on a wild camping party. Smores, drinks, smokes, people making out, super 80's vibes. August 18, 1981, 5:57am, last day of camp... Bunks filled with couples, and they guys bail back to their own bunks, and the councilers watch them run back and forth. The campers loudly wake up a counciler, girls are getting ready. A voice over warns about the last day of camp and they need to seize the day. Paul Rudd, Andy basically licks a girls mouth with Coop looking on. Katie promises to find him a girl. Beth the camp director introduces herself to Henry the astrophysisit. Victor is convinced someone wants to fuck him; while Gene reminds everyone he was in Vietnam. A nerd tries to recruit some DnD players. Henry offers to do science expirements. Gene keeps acting weird and his dick cream. Beth informs Victor he's taking campers on an overnight camp, and Susie and Ben are putting on a musical. Katie and Andy talk, and Andy is all over the place. 8:02 am. Morning activity time: guitars, jazzersize, hiking with game boys, science expierments, and we end with arts and crafts, Molly Shannons Gail. A tense discussion of crayons vs markers breaks Gail. Abby comes on to Victor, and he promises to come back for her tonight. Counclers make promise to meet 10 years in the future and see who've they've become, at 10am.
S
-Do like the intro music
-The delivery is... Weird.
-The sound when anything breaks is the same... its not funny though. It's weird.
-It's over the top, but in a not funny way. Doesn't land well.
-The director has said the Victor/Abby thing is something he really did as a kid/teen
9:35 am: Henry stares at the sky and says theres nothing to worry about...yet. Andy, finshes breakfast and throws his plate on the ground and groans when he has to clean it up. Gail is still losing it, and the kids council her. Counciler meeting, Beth delegates and they move on. Beth mines Katie for sexy details and they go for a make over. Andy lets a kid take out the motar boat. Lindsey and Andy make out. Coop and Katie talk about who he can hook up with. Kid in the boat comes back, jumps in, and possibly drowns. Beth, talks to Henry about astrophsics. Andy takes the drowned kids friend and throws him from a van. Beth starts heading to town and everyone jumps in. Montoge of Beth reading about astrophysics, Henry about camp directing, councilers smoking pot, getting beer, dealing some cocaine, robing an old woman, shooting up in a crack/heroin den, then they're back all alright. Victor and Neil in the van and Victor admits to being a virgin. 11am. Gene is still werid about the potatoes. Gail continues to receive councling from the kids, and a neck rub. JJ gets all the kids out of the van, and starts back to camp to be with Abby...and he wrecks the van. Cut to Abby on the bed painting her nails, another dude comes in and gives her some gum, and they start making out as Victor starts walking. Neil in the raft with the kids, worried they're going to die, so Neil hops out and steals a bike. He chases Victor, and is stopped by a bail of hay. Some guys watch the girls undress, McKinley walks away...and meets with Ben in a closet. They embrace and kiss each other, and have sex. 1:30pm The camp softball team will play Camp Tiger Claw; they discuss winning at th elast second, which the campers call trite. When the other team shows up, Coop talks to them and they agree and leave.
S
-There's nothing redeeming about Paul Rudds character... I get it's supposed to be sasrcasm/satire, but it's just not funny. He's an asshole.
-The in town montoge is kinda funny, how far they take it. One of them died, and then just pull back to camp no explination.
-Christoper Melonis beard/mustache are really bad.
-The gay tube socks
1:30pm The camp softball team will play Camp Tiger Claw; they discuss winning at th elast second, which the campers call trite. When the other team shows up, Coop talks to them and they agree and leave. McKinely and Ben are shown getting married by the lake. Capture the flag. Andy is still an ass. Susie is mad Beth made her add the werid kid to the talent show. Henry shows how the earth revovles around the sun, 1.3 million miles a year...and they comfort him for being an associate professor, so Beth joins and impresses Henry with some astrophyscists names. Andy and Lindsey go to make out. Beth talks more and offers to write Henrys professor, and they kiss. 2:23 pm on the boat, Jake drowns another kid, and throws the other one from the van again. Coop and Katie talk in the barn, they swap shirts, and end up kissing. Gail continues therapy with the kids through role play. Susie critizes the kids practicing for the talent show. Coop finds Katie and Andy and celebrates. Gene in the kitchen is talking to a can of mixed vegetables...and lies about smearing mud on his ass. The can tells him to be honest, like him admitting to sucking his own dick. Katie tells Coop kissing was a mistake, he tries to convince her to be with him. Gene wants to make an annoucement, thanks them for a good summer, and admits to wanting to go hump the fridge, as well as the other weird things he said...and introduces everyone to the mixed vegetables, that showed him the way. That he's ok, and everyone applauds as a fridge is rolled in, and he starts humping it.
S
-The guys calling McKinely and Ben the gay "F" word... Doesn't age well
-The stupid shirt swapping scene
-If you could suck your own dick would you? also, at what point do you or would you stop? Does it make you gay/bi?
7:34, they grab the smelly kid and wash him. 7:35, Beth and Henry talk...and he tells her a piece of Skylab is aimed at camp firewood, and they're going to try and build tracker. Coop comes to talk to Andy and asks him to break up with Katie, and he's told to fuck off. Henry debuts the homemade skylab tracker, and Beth congratulates him. Coop is crying, and Gene comforts him and tells him about the new way. Montoge of them running, dancing, walking, Bloodsporty style **UP CLOSE MAGIC**, running, Coop doing better, group therapy, eventually Coop wins... 7:51pm, Victor is still coming for Abby; "Neil" pulls up on the motorcycle and tells Beth the kids are about the go over the rapids. High drama as they look for Victor. He finds Abby making out with the yelling kid, Neil convinces him to come with him to save the kids. Henry gets a readout that skylab will land on the camp, and the talent show is starting. Victor singlehandedly saves the kids, off screen. The nerd kids lay down trying to figure out who to stop skylab, as Beth breaks into the talent show to stop it, but is stopped. A terrible DJ comes out and tells some terrible jokes, and introduces acts, and the nerds move the skylab tracker. Various acts preform, lighting a fart, etc., when Gails ex Ron shows up and wants her back... and she tells him off. Day by day is sung, and ends in boos... probably due to the Cross. Coop shows up after his make over, everyone is staring at him. He tells Kate he's leaving, probably to see the world. The nerds struggle with the tracker. Steve the weird guy begins his performance, and Katie pulls Coops favorite shirt from the tiny box he left her, wind is swirling, Katie tells Coop she loves him, Abby and Lindsey kiss, Steve holds his hands out and the wind grows more intense, Coop and Katie kiss as she tells him she loves him, Steve drops his hand, the wind stops and skylab crashes outside. Everyone is stunned. Slow clap into applause, Andy tries it on with Lindsey again, she she brushes him off. The next day, everyone is packing up, crying, parents getting kids, promises to write. Henry got the hopkins award, and NASA hired him to Cape Canaveral, he's taking her with him, and she's pregnant. Gail is leaving with the little camper who helped her out. Gene nods to the can, and it nods back. The nerds discuss what happened. Katie ends up still dumping Coop because Andy is super cut, from marble, and specifically for sex with him and not Coop. But still be friends. She gets in a car with Andy and leaves Coop. He and Beth walk off cut to credits.
S:
-Andy in the bunk is reading a rolling stone magazine with Bill Murray on the cover.
-Again, it's so outlandish, it's not even funny.
-What did Steve do there at the end
Next week is Summer School and finish pride month with Brokeback.
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