Dude, Where's My Car?: Critic Reviews

The definition of aiming low is when the John Hughes film you're ripping off is Weird Science.

A surprisingly sweet, mild-mannered movie for a teenage comedy spoof, and that's not a good thing.

Daft and lovable and even kinda daring, Dude deserves its truly clueless studio's belabored support.

I was embarrassed that I enjoyed a movie so juvenile and stupid. But then I thought, 'Dude!' and I was OK.

The majority of its gags fall woefully flat, and its brief, 83-minute running time often seems to drag for an eternity.

Pic is transparently thin -- even at just 83 minutes, it feels desperately padded -- but fitfully amusing.

An almost chuckle-free mess, so amateurish and lame that the cast often has that embarrassed look you see on dogs given ridiculous haircuts.

The stupidity and the failed gags start piling up, and Dude, Where's My Car? becomes just another lame slacker comedy.

A one-joke motion picture, and that one joke rapidly grows tiresome.

Gratingly unfunny.

Following these two clumsy, unpretentious doofuses as they jump from one brisk gag to another is a gentle, cozy experience, especially if you compare these harmless vignettes to the brutal and vitriolic spirit of, say, a comedy by the Farrelly brothers.

Brain-cell depleting comedy will appeal to kids.

A jaw-dropping intergalactic caper 'comedy' where no less than the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

Tone deaf...only slightly better than the worst sitcom you've ever seen.

...a stoner mystery that recycles tried and occasionally true gags specifically packaged for today's teenage audiences, like the cheerleading squad I was sitting next to.

Don't bring a date - they'll dump you straight afterwards.

Not funny. It's not even DUMB funny.

Dude, Where's My Car? runs a short 83-minutes and yet still feels long.

It succeeds in keeping these sub-literate goobers likable despite their painful incompetence as human beings.

Why is the refrigerator full of pudding? Why is an angry transsexual stripper chasing the boys? Why are their girlfriends so angry? And why did someone at Fox think this sitcom-style material could be developed into a feature film?

What...you're expecting Hamlet?

...has the advantage of being only eighty-three minutes long and the disadvantage of seeming like an eternity.