
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 trian... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Wet Hot American Summer.
| Film.comWilliam GossThe skewering of underdog sports clichés, horny teen staples and Vietnam-trauma melodrama is long overdue and perfectly irreverent in execution. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is so hilariously sly about something so fetishistically trivial that at times it appears to take in an entire culture through a lens made of cheese. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceThere are times when the only sporadically funny comedy threatens to become worse than the increasingly horrid Meatballs sequels. |
| Boxoffice MagazineAnnlee EllingsonFirst elicits chuckles ... then belly laughs as the action expands. |
| PopMattersStephen TropianoAs both a parody and a 'straight' summer camp comedy, Wet Hot American Summer has little to offer even the most die-hard crude comedy fans. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThis shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer. Make that this year. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottThis sloppy comedy may be a pleasant reminder of days gone by. |
| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickThe funniest cinematic camp experience since Pugsley and Wednesday freaked everyone out with their rendition of the first Thanksgiving in "Addams Family Values." |
| Houston ChronicleBruce WestbrookFor all its failings, Wet Hot maintains energy and high spirits over most of its length. The trouble is, such energy and spirits are not infectious, and the movies it mocks were better. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorIt's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of its genius. |